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Years Of Age Dec 1999
1,044 words
Macular Degeneration is a problem in the part of
the eye that controls your sharpest central
vision. It is a group of diseases that result in a
loss of detailed vision. The brain will not just
leave the spot empty, so it learns to fill it in
with spotty macular cell damage. People most of
the time don't tell their doctors
(opthalmologist's) about it until it is well in
advance. There are two types of Macular
Degeneration. Juvenile Macular Degeneration
affects the central vision in young children...
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British Medical Journal Depressive Disorder
1,639 words
... s of yet. Prozac acts on Serotonin levels,
where as Reboxetine acts on the noradrenaline
levels. Some experts believe that drive and
motivation are related to noradrenaline, and mood
states are associated with serotonin. Like the
SSRIs (specific serotonin reuptake inhibitors),
the noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor Reboxetine
does not have the major adverse side effects as
the trycilic antidepressants, such as sexual
dysfunction. Reboxetine has been shown to take
effect much faster than any ot...
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Alternative Medicine Alternative Therapies
1,274 words
Alternative medicine, also known as alternative
therapies, lie outside the realm of conventional
medicine. An alternative therapy is any
intervention that: is not reimbursable by most
health insurance providers in the United States,
is not well supported by scientific tests
establishing safety and effectiveness, and is not
taught by most medical schools in the United
States. They are also called adjunctive,
unconventional, or unorthodox therapies. There are
many general areas of alternative medi...
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Cystic Fibrosis Gene People With Cf
1,884 words
I am the doctor for your hospital and have
prepared the following paper for you to look at
and possibly use. It includes information on what
cystic fibrosis really is, what treatments there
are, what you two can do for your child, and how
it is inherited. I hope this document is useful to
you in your incoming struggle against this
horrible disease. It is good to know that you are
not alone. Every day four children in the United
States are diagnosed as having cystic fibrosis.
Cystic Fibrosis is t...
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Central Nervous System Hearing Loss
1,719 words
Meniere's disease is disease of the ear. There are
two types of Meniere's, classical Meniere's
affects both the hearing and balance systems and
there's also Meniere's that affects only the
Cochlea, which is the hearing organ and only the
Vestibular system of balance. In the early stages
of this disease many people experience sudden
attacks of dizziness, nausea, ear ringing or
tinnitus, and ear or head pressure. There may also
be fluctuating or permanent, hearing loss. The
dizziness they experien...
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Vitro Fertilization Fertility Drugs
1,105 words
Since the 1970 s, the number of triplets and
higher multiple births have quadrupled due to
fertility treatments, such as, in vitro
fertilization and fertility drugs. According to
the National Center for Health Statistics, by 1995
alone, 9. 3 million American women sought help for
infertility problems (Ackerman 63). With this
increase in complicated multiple pregnancies,
regulations need to be set in place to avoid the
undesired consequences of fertility treatments.
Technology has made many advan...
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Behavioral Therapy Behavior Patterns
455 words
Treating ADHD with Ritalin is a way to ignore the
situations and factors that may exacerbate the
symptoms of the disorder. Parents need to take
some responsibility for their childrens disorders
and seek treatments besides Ritalin. Physicians
should recommend a program that combines chemical
and behavioral treatments to assist children in
working through their disorder. It seems that
Ritalin may be over prescribed in our country,
with an estimated 2 million children taking
Ritalin (Breggin, 1995)...
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Stress Management High Street
956 words
According to the company, health and beauty
products have been available only through
independent operators. Because of the growing
worldwide interest in well-being, the company is
expanding to meet the needs of customers by
strategically placing the new store on High
Street. The company reports that its health and
beauty services markets are growing at roughly 10
percent annually. The enterprise announces two
developments that will significantly extend its
range of health, beauty and well-being...
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Gene Therapy Ovarian Cancer
1,059 words
Argumentative Essay: Gene Therapy Table of
Contents Title Page
1
Table of Contents
2
Introduction
3
Why is Gene Therapy Better in
Treating Cancer?
3
Conclusion
5
Works Cited
7 Introduction Today, when people get sick, they
visit doctors and then they are given a
prescription of what kind of medication to take or
what kind of therapy they are supposed to under in
order to get well and most of the time, patients
do get well. There are times wherein patients do
not get entirely cu...
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High Blood Pressure Sexual Arousal
1,566 words
Sexual disorders Sexual disorders are disorders
related to a particular phase of the sexual
response cycle. They may arise from multiple
causes. Their clinical assessment, diagnosis, and
treatment must take into account the patient's
underlying biology, history, and behaviors. For
example, sexual dysfunctions include sexual desire
disorders, sexual arousal disorders, orgasm
disorders, and sexual pain disorders. So when
someone has sex with himself / herself , it
doesn't always go as smoothly as ...
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Real Estate Market Evaluation
2,745 words
Real Estate Market Evaluation According to the
company, health and beauty products have been
available only through independent operators.
Because of the growing worldwide interest in
well-being, the company is expanding to meet the
needs of customers by strategically placing the
new store on High Street. The company reports that
its health and beauty services markets are growing
at roughly 10 percent annually. The enterprise
announces two developments that will significantly
extend its range of...
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Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
3,264 words
Brain Chemistry and Recent Advances The mysteries
surrounding the complexity of the brain and how it
works has led scientists in diverse fields to
search for answers. Chemicals in the brain and the
reactions that take place are being understood now
more than ever due to continuing research in
genetics, pharmacology, and mental illness. Study
and research in genetics has helped identify some
of the genes involved in producing, receiving, or
sending certain chemical reactions, the way they
work, a...
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White Blood Cells Loss Of Appetite
2,169 words
Chemotherapy: The treatment of disease with drugs
that directly poison the diseased organism. Most
often referred to for cancer treatment, where
powerful drugs with potentially sever side effects
are used to eliminate or contain the spread of
tumors. In treating physical diseases, probably
the most common form of therapy in Western
medicine is chemotherapy, or drug therapy. Some
physical conditions, where chemotherapy is not the
best option, can be corrected through surgery
while others may be e...
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Low Blood Pressure American Medical Association
3,095 words
Acupuncture, Qigong, and Chinese Medicine Stephen
Barrett, M. D. Chinese medicine, often called
Oriental medicine or traditional Chinese medicine
(TCM), encompasses a vast array of folk medical
practices based on mysticism. It holds that the
bodys vital energy (chi or qi) circulates through
14 channels, called meridians, that have branches
connected to bodily organs and functions. Illness
is attributed to imbalance or interruption of
chi... Ancient practices such as acupuncture and
Qigong are cl...
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Cystic Fibrosis Thick Mucous Disease
445 words
Cystic Fibrosis is one of the most common life
threatening disease in North America. One in every
twenty five hundred children born in Canada has
cystic fibrosis. What is Cystic Fibrosis? Cystic
Fibrosis is a disease with no cure and the
disorder itself is inherited. It affects the lungs
and the digestive system. Cystic fibrosis affects
the lung severely causing serious respiratory
problems. Also affecting the pancreas, liver,
sweat glands and salivary glands in the mouth are
affected. All these...
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Year Old Boy Gene Therapy
2,454 words
Whats the worst that can happen to me? I die, and
its for the babies, said Jessie Gelsinger as he
left for the hospital to receive gene therapy
treatment. (Stolberg) People risk their lives
everyday in the name of science. One such science
that people have recently been drawn to is gene
therapy. Although, gene therapy may be new and
exciting and it may be helping to find cures to
diseases we only dreamed of curing, we have to
remember it is dangerous. It needs to be done with
much supervision. E...
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Catholic Church Elizabethan Times
1,297 words
Medicine of Elizabethan Time? ? ? ? ? For a dog
bite: ? Boil all together one spoonful of tin
shavings, one drum of treacle, a handful of rice,
and a quart of ale? (Curtis 318). Pouring oil on
wounds was believed to heal them fast (Ramsey 2).
Bizarre remedies like this represent the medical
ideas of Elizabethan times. Such ideas could be
explained by the respect people had for
superstitions that existed. This is why medicine
of the Elizabethan times was based on superstition
and intuition rather...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
1,552 words
Weldon 1 Clint Weldon 04 / 05 / 00 Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder: Echoes of War Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder. The term can be defined simply
as, a normal reaction to an abnormal situation
(Olson, Gail A. and Robbins 8). A more in-depth
definition would be the development of
characteristic symptoms following a
psychologically distressing event outside the
range of usual human experience (Dicks 2). Of the
seven hundred and fifty thousand heavy combat
veterans from Vietnam alive today, two hundr...
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American Cancer Society Types Of Cancer
2,919 words
Cancer is a major killer of people all around the
globe. We do not have a definite cure, but the
amount of research done on this one disease costs
on the average of $ 1. 2 billion dollars annually,
and $ 20 billion annually in care of cancer
patients. What is Cancer? Cancer is a broad
ranging term that is used by many people,
including medical professionals such as doctors.
Cancer, in its most fatal and aggressive form, is
of a larger class of diseases known as neoplasms.
There are two forms of ...
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Doctors And Hospitals Voluntary Euthanasia
2,524 words
Morality and Practicality of Euthanasia Euthanasia
is defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as
the action of killing an individual for reasons
considered to be merciful (Leonesio 292). Here,
killing is described as the physical action where
one individual actively kills another. Euthanasia
is tolerated in the medical field under certain
circumstances when a patient is suffering
profoundly and death is inevitable. The word
euthanasia comes from the Greek eu, good, and
thanatos, death, liter...
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