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Disease That Causes Cartilage In Your Joints Osteoarthritis
533 words
Osteoarthritis is a disease that causes the
cartilage in your joints to break down. Cartilage
is a smooth substance that protects the ends of
your bones and helps your joints move.
Osteoarthritis becomes more common as people get
older. To diagnose this disease, your doctor will
ask about your and your families health history.
X-rays and an exam may also be needed.
Osteoarthritis can affect any joint.
Weight-bearing joints, such as the hip and knee,
are often affected in both men and women. Hand...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Behavioral
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... eople with OCD report that the symptoms can
come and go on their own. Individuals with OCD may
have substance-abuse problems, sometimes as a
result of attempts to self-medicate. Specific
treatment for the substance abuse is usually also
needed. After a proper diagnosis, there are many
treatments available for patients suffering from
OCD. However, before any treatment is
administered, the patient and family are educated
about OCD and its treatment as a medical illness.
First of all, there are...
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Low Self Esteem American Psychiatric Association
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Eating disorders are devastating behavioral
maladies brought on by a complex interplay of
factors, which may include emotional and
personality disorders, family pressure, a possible
genetic or biologic susceptibility, and a culture
in which there is an overabundance of food and an
obsession with thinness. Eating disorder also may
be defined, as self-abuse. Two of these disorders,
anorexia and bulimia, result from the fear or
overeating and of gaining weight. This paper talks
about what bulimia m...
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Point In Time Ginkgo Biloba
1,475 words
The blitz is on for ginkgo and other herbal
products, but are they panaceas or placebos?
Recently, everywhere you turn, you see or hear
about new herbal remedies used for improving ones
memory and concentration. One more frequently
discussed is Ginkgo Biloba. It is an herbal
substance that offers hope for improving memory,
concentration and brain functions. Ginkgo Biloba
is a derivative of a leafy ornamental tree that
originated in eastern China. It is said to
increase blood flow to the brain, i...
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Political Socialization Mass Media
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... his or her family members, become far to
overwhelming to allow enough freedom for the
individual to focus on issues outside ones own
personal life. These issues alone can take up to a
lifetime resurrecting and rebuilding, and any
peer-involvement is sure to be, and best, invested
in these areas. Let alone to say that a small
portion (2 percent) of persons either afflicted or
related to the addict ever even begin this
process, let alone complete it through its
successful consummation into a b...
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Infected With Hiv Opportunistic Infections
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... latin lesions. The use of a condom during
sexual intercourse can assist in this, but a
condom will not protect other exposed surfaces.
Genital herpes is rapidly gaining attention as an
STD. One reason is that thousands of new cases are
being identified each year. Another reason is a
lack of any known cure. Herpes simplex virus type
2, because it is viral, makes antibiotic drugs
useless in treating the symptoms and eliminating
infection from the body. In most cases, the herpes
sore blisters a...
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Information Symptoms And Treatment Of Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating mental
illness. The disease can cause you to withdraw
from the people and activities in the world around
you and retreat into a world of delusions and
fantasies. Schizophrenia is the most common and
destructive kind of psychosis, which is an
impairment of thinking in which your
interpretation of reality can be severely
abnormal. Psychosis is a symptom of a disordered
brain. Researchers haven't identified the cause or
causes of schizophrenia, although t...
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Information Symptoms And Treatment Of Schizophrenia
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... es have limited value for acutely psychotic
patients (those who are out of touch with reality
or have prominent hallucinations or delusions),
they may be useful for patients with less severe
symptoms or for patients whose psychotic symptoms
are under control. Numerous forms of psychosocial
therapy are available for people with
schizophrenia, and most focus on improving the
patients social functioning whether in the
hospital or community, at home, or on the job.
Some of these approaches are d...
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Alternative Treatment To Drug Addiction
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Americans have a complicated war other than the
one in the Middle East to be concerned about. , a
war that has gone on much longer -the war on
drugs. According to a study at Brown University,
if the current rate of people who have been
incarcerated for drug violations continues, there
will be more Americans in prison than out by the
year 2053 (Alter 38). What many people do not
realize is that drug addiction is a disease and if
not treated properly this disease will continue to
spread. When a pe...
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Low Self Esteem Suicide Rate
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... itunes of Mental Health (NIMH) has identified
the use of medications for depression in children
as an important area for research. The
NIMH-supported Research Units on Pediatric
Psychopharmacology (RUPPs) form a network of seven
research sites where clinical studies on the
effects of medications for mental disorders can be
conducted in children and adolescents. Among the
medications being studied are antidepressants,
some of which have been found to be effective in
treating children with dep...
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Anxiety Disorders Withdrawal Symptoms
489 words
Lorazepam is in the class of drugs called
benzodiazepines. Lorazepam is a sedative
anxiolytic medication. It is noted for the
management of anxiety disorders and for the
short-term relief of the symptoms of anxiety or
anxiety associated with depressive symptoms. Like
most other benzodiazepines, patients using
lorazepam can develop a tolerance to it. In other
words, patients will have to use more and more in
order to get the desired effect of the medication.
As a tolerance to lorazepam builds, a ...
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Alzheimers Disease Financial Burden
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... ms, avoids people), poor judgment, makes bad
decisions, takes longer with routine chores, and
trouble handling money. (Cutler and Sramek 75) The
Second Stage, or moderate dementia, lasts
approximately 2 to 10 years after diagnosis. The
second stage is usually the longest stage of the
disease process. Symptoms of moderate dementia
include: increasing memory loss with confusion,
shorter attention span, problems recognizing close
friends and family, repetitive statements and
movements, restless...
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Health Care Professionals Bipolar Disorder
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Bipolar and the Mind (1) The term bipolar disorder
refers to the variety of psychological
abnormalities that are defined by the irrational
swings in patients mood, which sometimes are
associated with anti-social behavior. It is only
in recent times that this term was being adopted
by psychiatric community, as such that has a
neutral sounding and does not imply perceptional
negativity. In fact, the term bipolar disorder is
nothing by politically correct equivalent of the
term manic depressive dis...
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People Who Suffer Key Issue
735 words
This disorder is characterized by the presence of
non-bizarre delusions, which have persisted for a
least one-month. Non-bizarre delusions typically
are beliefs of something occurring in a person? s
life, which is not out of the realm of
possibility. For example, the person may believe
their significant other is cheating on them, that
someone close to them is about to die, a friend is
really a government agent, etc. All of these
situations could be true or possible, but the
person suffering from...
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Herbal Medicines Petri Dishes
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Do natural medicines work as well as over the
counter medicines? This question has been argued
about for quite a while. In my experiment, I will
compare natural medicine? s effectiveness on
Escherichia coli to over the counter drugs, to
finally decide if herbal remedies are better than
E. coli Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a common
bacteria in your stomach and intestines. E. coli
is a gram negative rod bacteria (Fundamentals of
Microbiology). E. coli bacteria make up 0. 1 % of
the total bacteria...
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Mentally Ill Thoughts
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During the 1950 s, mentally disordered people who
were harmful to society and themselves could be
treated with medications and were able to return
safely to their communities. Unfortunately in the
1980 s, the cost of health care increased more
than any other cost in our national economy.
Strategic planning has been made to reduce costs,
as a result, ? The political decision made to
deinstitutionalize chronic mental patients started
with the appearance of phenothiazine medications.
Dramatically r...
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Nerve Endings Secondary Symptoms
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migraine In America approximately 45 million
people each year consult physicians for relief of
chronic headache pain (1). Chronic headache pain
is second only to the common cold in loss of work
and wages due to ailment (8). In the past decade
advancements in the understanding and treatment of
vascular headache syndromes have increased
drastically. The activity in this field is plagued
and sometimes hindered with competing theories
about migraine pathogenesis. The many symptoms
that have broadene...
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Mental Health Association American Journal Of Psychiatry
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At first it Prozac Abstract At first it was the
cure all people were looking for. Then it became
the drug they were afraid to take. Somewhere
between these two extremes lies the truth about
the drug Fluoxetine, better known as Prozac, the
most widely prescribed drug on the globe. It is
mainly prescribed to patients suffering from
clinical depression. It was first brought to the
market in 1988 by the pharmaceutical giant Eli
Lilly co. Even though it was originally prescribed
for depression, it ha...
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Diagnosed With Schizophrenia Antipsychotic Medications
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Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness
characterized by a variety of symptoms, including
loss of contact with reality, bizarre behavior,
disorganized thinking and speech, decreased
emotional expressiveness, and social withdrawal.
This illness affects those parts of the mind that
are fundamental to a persons sense of self. It
changes a persons perception of reality, through
hallucinations and delusions. This mental illness
is diagnosed in about one person in every 100.
Schizophrenia has been ca...
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Love And Support Deep Depression Suicide
605 words
Suicide... a serious problem that has no blanket
solution. Thesis of this essay is to write about
the solution to a problem. In mycale, the?
problem? is suicide and in suicide there is no
real? solution? . There are many ways to help one
who is suicidal, and different precautions, such
as: hotlines, counseling, and programs.
Medications that you can prescribe to them also
can help. Other than that, it? s pretty much up to
your love and support to keep them alive. Some
hotlines, and web sites tha...
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