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Research Has Shown Type Of Treatment
1,705 wordsAdmitting Diagnosis: Ca of the Duodenum W. F. is divorced and lives alone in a private dwelling. He has worked as a city bus driver for the past 10 yrs and plans to return to his job when he is able. W. F. also works part time as a carpenter with a friend doing custom carpentry after his day job ends. W. F. received support by regular visits from his girlfriend and family located in the city. Other family members live elsewhere but were in contact with him. W. F. was a pack / day smoker for appr...
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Effects Of Marijuana Period Of Time
1,257 words... cy, meaning that currently available marijuana must be considered an addictive drug. Increasing numbers of teenagers report getting "very" intoxicated or "bombed" when they smoke marijuana, suggesting they may be using a powerful form of the drug. Among teens who smoked in the last month, nearly 20 percent reported compulsive daily use. Dr. Charles Schuster, former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), stated: "Physical dependence, which is what most people mean by addicti...
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Crack Babies
720 wordsMothers are Responsible for Crack Babies Drugs have been a lasting problem for the American society. Not just teenagers, but also pregnant women use drugs heavily. To unborn children mothers taking drugs are harmful. In all instances mothers are be responsible for crack babies. The mother is responsible for her faults. This problem has been looked over, but it is important in its entirety. The crack babies are truly sick. The mother of a crack baby never has been held responsible for endangering...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Children Of Alcoholics
1,856 wordsTopic Description The topic I chose for the research assignment is children of alcoholics. I chose to focus more on the children that are involved in families of alcoholics rather than on the family as a whole, because I felt there would be too much information. Because I grew up in a stable, relatively normal family, I chose to research a topic in which I did not have experience with. The participants that I chose for the interview are people that I know to have problems with parental alcoholis...
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Gulf War Syndrome President George Bush
1,097 words... to use air power with logistic and raiding strategies. The second and third phase was combat and raiding strategies that would use standoff air power, close-in power, ground artillery and naval artillery. The fourth phase used a combat and persisting strategy, which was set out to remove Iraqi forces. During all four phases the Coalition concentrated on the Iraqi weaknesses. The greatest weakness was their underestimation of the Coalitions capabilities. The Iraqi strategy was based on things...
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Should Stimulants Be Prescribed For Adhd Children
739 wordsIn this day and age, drugs are being prescribed without hesitation. In fact, many of these drugs are being prescribed for children with various disorders. One of these disorders is called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). An estimated five to ten percent of children are diagnosed with this syndrome (Taylor 11). One of the methods to treat this disorder is to use stimulants, specifically Ritalin. This method is controversial because it has many side effects and its long-term effect...
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Parts Of The Body
1,111 wordsErgonomics involves designing workplaces and work tools to be used easily, efficiently and effectively by people. The overall goal is to promote health and productivity in the workplace. Where ergonomic principles are not applied, chronic musculoskeletal disorders such as tendinitis of the arm and hand, eyestrain injury and back injuries may be common. Most people are concerned when they cannot use parts of the body like they know they should be able to use them. People are often unaware of ways...
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Familiar With Tourette Syndrome Children With Ts Child
501 wordsAccording to the Tourette syndrome Association there are not many schools in the nation that are familiar with Tourette syndrome. However, even though they remain few in number, more schools and educators are becoming familiar with Tourette Syndrome and are willing to provide the special care and attention that TS children need to enhance their learning ability and ease the emotional stress they often experience during school. Tourette Syndrome is something that should be researched and discusse...
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Sexually Transmitted Disease Human Immunodeficiency Virus
738 wordsInfection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) had emerged as a major health problem for women in the United States. Family physicians can play an important role in the detection and care of HIV-infected women. The epidemiology and natural history of HIV infection in women were reviewed. HIV infection is now a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among young women in the United States, particularly women of racial and ethnic minorities. Most cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome...
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Genetic Disorder Genetic Basis
610 wordsPolydactyl y or Polydactylism Polydactyl y is usually defined as a congenital irregularity of the feet and hands. In other words, polydactyl y occurs when the person has more than five toes per foot or more than five fingers per hand. Alternative names for polydactyl y are extra digits or supernumerary digits. Although it is quite difficult to define the exact causes of the disease, having an excessive numbers of digits can happen on its own, and can have no links with other diseases or symptoms...
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Crack Babies
735 wordsIris Crack Babies David Hester Iris Barbour English 111 June 23, 2000 Mothers are Responsible for Crack Babies Drugs have been a lasting problem for the American society. Not just teenagers, but also pregnant women use drugs heavily. To unborn children mothers taking drugs are harmful. In all instances mothers are be responsible for crack babies. The mother is responsible for her faults. This problem has been looked over, but it is important in its entirety. The crack babies are truly sick. The ...
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Safety And Health
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
472 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome In one week 10, 000 babies are born in Canada. Twenty are born with Fetal Alcohol syndrome (FAS). One hundred with other alcohol related birth defects. FAS is most often described as the leading cause of mental retardation. FAS is not genetic or inherited and is % 100 preventable. Fetal Alcohol syndrome refers to a constellation of physical and mental birth defects that may develop in individuals whose mothers consumed alcohol during pregnancy. It is an organic disease tha...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Urinary Tract
1,742 wordsMany pregnant women are not aware of the complications that are involved with pregnancy. The greater majority of young women see pregnancy as a way of bringing a life into the world but do not use precaution in their dietary habits to prevent the destruction or inhibition of such a life. Most pregnant women continue on their drinking and drug abuse binge right throughout their pregnancy. They do not think ahead to the inexplicable damage that it could do to their fetus. What they do not know is ...
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Central Nervous System Withdrawal Symptoms
2,507 wordsGHB, or gamma-hydroxy butyrate, is a nutrient that is part of the metabolism process in mammalians. It can be found in every cell of the human body. The greatest quantities can be found in the kidney, heart, skeletal muscles, and brown fat tissues (Chin and Kreutzer, 1992). Chin and Kreutzer also believe it to be a neurotransmitter, however that has not yet been proven. GHB is known to be a metabolite and also a precursor of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid). GHB and...
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Endoplasmic Reticulum Hemorrhagic Fever
3,146 wordsHantavirus: A Four Corners Study When a new virus appeared in the Four Corners region, American scientists were stumped. What was causing such a quick death to such healthy people? Was there a potential epidemic on their hands? No one knew, and when they finally determined that a strain hantavirus was involved, many were shocked. This had to be something completely new to the hantavirus family and that was somewhat overwhelming. Normally, the hantavirus only affects the kidneys, but this new vir...
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Dsm Iv Diagnostic Criteria
2,109 wordsAlthough at first sight the DSM-IV classification system appears to provide clinicians with a useful framework of which to view their clients, on closer inspection however, the picture is somewhat less satisfactory. Criticisms of the system range from Wakefield's (1997) analysis that psychological presentation ranges from problems of living to harmful dysfunction; through to Livesley, Schroeder &# 038; Jangs (1994) counter-argument that evidence of discontinuity between different diagnoses and n...
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Short Term Memory Long Term Memory
803 wordsThere are many Memory 1. There are many process of memory. The basic of them all are encoding, storage and retrieval. Your short-term memory (STM) has a limited time till the information is forgotten (10 - 30 seconds). Long-term memory (LTM) virtually has an unlimited storing capacity. Through process of consolidation and hints or cues you can retrieve past memory s and emotions. Our working memory has three areas: phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad and central executive. These components...
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Papas Waltz Poor Man
1,051 wordsMid-Term Paper: Intro. to Poetry. My Papas waltz by Theodor Roethke. Written by: Lior Ashkenazy. To: Dr. Ruth Kolani. In Theodor Roethkes My Papas waltz the reader finds a horrid experiance, the beating of a child by his father, which is told in a way of a romantic and beautiful dance the waltz. The feeling one get from reading this poem is that the narrator, at least at the time in which the poem is written, does not look at this experience as something bad. He tries to beautify the experience ...
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Kilometers In Diameter Mitral Valve
1,169 wordsReading Response Researchers have now concluded that a heart defect, called mitral valve prolapse is not as dangerous as it was previously pronounced. The defect is far less common and dangerous, only effecting about 5 percent of Americans. The syndrome, which is caused by the mitral valve flaps becoming elongated and floppy, letting blood flow backwards into the heart chamber. The defect may require surgery to prevent sudden death, stroke, heart failure, and abnormal heart rhythms that cause fa...
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