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Term Papers on Health and Medicine

Obesity
Number of words: 1370 - Number of pages: 5

.... Most people, including health care providers see the problem with obesity as eating too much and exercising too little. But in truth, for many obese people the problem lies with genetic predisposition, metabolic problems, binge eating or sometimes all. These factors make dieting virtually impossible because these problems are not ones that can be solved by simply cutting calories. Especially the problem of binge eating. Compulsive "binge" eating in the obese is not caused by just wanting to eat. The want to eat is caused by looking for a sense of .....


The Ebola Virus
Number of words: 1588 - Number of pages: 6

.... strains of Ebola are Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Reston, and Ebola Tai. Each is named after the geographical location in which it was discovered. These filoviruses cause hemorrhagic fever, which is actually what kill victims of the Ebola virus. Hemorrhagic fever as defined in Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary as, a group of viral aerosol infections, characterized by fever, chills, headache, malaise, and respiratory or GI symptoms, followed by capillary hemorrhages, and, in severe infection, oliguria, kidney failure, hypotension, and, .....


Seasonal Affective Disorder
Number of words: 1047 - Number of pages: 4

.... to the women’s depression. In order to confirm this he exposed the patient to artificial sunlight. He found that over a period of time the patient had recovered from the depression. Today light therapy is the most commonly used method in treating SAD. The two hormones that are affected by the sunlight, and are thought to be the cause of SAD, are melatonin and serotonin. Both of these chemicals “are influenced by photoperiodism, the earth’s daily dark-light cycle” (Wurtman 1989). Melatonin is the chemical that effects mood and energy levels. In the human .....


Flour Baby Project: Parenting
Number of words: 1868 - Number of pages: 7

.... around this baby causes a lot of back pain and a lot of stress on the body itself. The stomach gets really big and stretch marks do appear and it just gets heavy at times. The pregnancy keeps on going for 2 more trimesters the 2nd trimester is based on shopping for maternity cloths, checking for blood sugar, avoid strenuous physical labor, and plan for maternity leave. the third trimester is a little more complicated your must see your practitioner once a month through week 28 and every two weeks until the 34 and once a week there after. Parents should be .....


Human Nature
Number of words: 544 - Number of pages: 2

.... yell at them, and say to them something like: "Bad boy, go to your room!" The child might then understand that what he did was bad, and he is getting punished for it. The child might then not do anything similar from then on, because he knows that it is socially unacceptable. The child might also continue to do bad things, because he doesn't realize that what he did was wrong. Another way evil may be introduced into a person can also be from a movie or the media. The first time a person sees a movie with violence and killing, the person might copy what .....


The Harm Of Illegal Drugs
Number of words: 503 - Number of pages: 2

.... not close behind, there running at 22%. As of October, 1974, 29 million people have tried marijuana. Out of the 29 million, 12 million of them use it regurlary.”(Carr 56). At high school level one-half of all students have tried marijuana. The next drug, heroine, is a narcotic drug derived in 1898 in Germany as a pain reliever. It was discovered during the search for a non-addictive morphine substitute. It was not carefully tested. Heroine is a bitter, odorless, white crystalline power. It can be injected into the veins which brings the biggest reaction. “Onc .....


Abortion: Birth Control Or Legal Murder?
Number of words: 2606 - Number of pages: 10

.... only a blob of tissue until it is born, or the statement: life begins at birth. Abortion is not as simple as removing a "blob of tissue" (as the pro-abortion activists put it) from a woman's body. Abortion is the destruction, dismembering and killing of a human life--an unborn baby. "But it is scientific and medical fact based on experimental evidence, that a fetus is a living, growing, thriving human being, directing his or her own development" (Fetal Development). A fetus is not just a blob of tissue, rather a fetus is Latin for "offspring or young one." Huma .....


Schizophrenia
Number of words: 2527 - Number of pages: 10

.... parent. In corresponding locations called loci of each chromosome, the genes for specific traits are located. Some researchers believe that mutations with these genes can cause . We inherit our genes from our parents, but this does not mean that the parents of a schizophrenic are mentally ill. Problems in a person’s genetic make up could come from mutated chromosomes or recessive genes. In an attempt to prove this theory, scientists study identical twins. Due to the fact that identical twins have identical genetic make up, researchers are able to determi .....



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