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A Study Of Lyme Disease In New Jersey
1,275 words... flu-like symptoms (1: 47). If left untreated, the disease spreads to other parts of the body, and often results in more joint, tendon and muscle pain, partial facial paralysis, and heart palpitations (8: 11). Chronic symptoms can develop if the disease goes untreated for months or years, and leads to severe arthritis and neurological problems (5: 29). The best way to arrive at or exclude a diagnosis of Lyme disease is to examine three aspects of the patient. The first is to determine if the ...
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Coronary Artery Disease Part Of My Life
1,494 words1. To explain how chemistry is part of my life. A. An in depth look at heart disease. C. Explanation on how chemistry is used to treat and in some cases cure heart A. Recap on how chemistry is part of my life and everyone's life. B. Elude to the horrors of a world without chemistry. A merciless killer stalks the people of this country. No one can run and no one can hide, but there is a hope. The application of chemistry in the treatment of heart disease is the key to ceasing this villain from cl...
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Children And Adolescents Percent Of People
1,421 wordsEveryone gets the blues now and then. In fact, it's perfectly normal to feel sad and discouraged at times. It's also quite appropriate to feel grief after a loss. However, when a low mood doesn't go away, the person may be suffering from clinical depression. In other words, depression that is serious enough to require treatment. It is one of the most painful, but also most common and treatable, of all mental illnesses. According to the American Psychiatric Association, one in four women and one ...
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Cancer Has Spread First Three Years
1,501 wordsCancer is a group of many different diseases that have some important things in common. They all affect cells, the bodys basic unit of life. To understand different types of cancer, such as Bladder Cancer, it is helpful to know about normal cells and what happens when they become cancerous. The body is made up of many types of cells. Normally, cells grow and divide to produce more cells only when the body needs them. This orderly process helps keep the body healthy. Sometimes cells keep dividing...
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Heavy Metal Music Suicide Attempts
2,061 wordsThe Causes can be Prevented Introduction The phenomenon of suicide cannot be easily addressed, because psychologists do not agree on its exact causes. One thing is clear though this issue is very complex and the effective suicide prevention program must be based on specifics of every individual case. Nevertheless, there are certain factors that are believed to be universally applicable, when it comes to explaining what causes suicide. In this paper we will discuss social attractors of suicide, s...
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Antisocial Behavior Risk Factor
1,031 wordsDropping Out Introduction Never before has the influence of education been greater than it is at present to determine Americas economic and occupational success because people who have suffered the most during the last two decades are the ones who are without high school diplomas. In comparison to people who are educated, the dropout individuals have had to suffer absolute declines in their income and this has resulted in their economic marginalization. It is not just the economic factor that is...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Substance Abuse
837 wordsObsessive Compulsive Disorder Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) as defined by the APA (2007) consists of severe recurrent obsessions, that are time consuming marked by preserved insight, distinguished from delusions. Criteria A is that they last more than one hour or one day. The obsessions are intrusive, persistent, unwanted thoughts, impulses, or images that produce anxiety or distress. Compulsions are physical or mental acts that the patient performs to prevent some feared event, or reduce ...
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Physical Fitness For Youth And Adults
2,167 wordsPhysical fitness for youth and adults According to A Comprehensive Lifestyle Approach: physical fitness is the body's ability to function efficiently and effectively. It consists of health-related physical fitness and skill-related physical fitness, which have at least eleven different components, each of which contributes to total quality of life. Physical fitness also includes metabolic fitness. Physical fitness is associated with a person's ability to work effectively, to enjoy leisure time, ...
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Coronary Heart Disease Type Ii Diabetes
1,704 wordsObesity According to surveys conducted by various organizations including the Center for Disease Control, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), obesity in the United States is a serious and mounting epidemic. In the United States, just about 300, 000 deaths a year are attributed to obesity (Pr Newswire, 1999). In comparison, Ohio is ranked 31 st (ranked best to worst) in 1999, among 50 states plus Puerto Rico an...
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Low Blood Pressure Low Self Esteem
1,644 wordsDepression in the Geriatric Community Today, depression, the common cold of mental illnesses, affects an alarming number of people. Estimates project that about 9? percent of the general population suffers from a depression disorder, equating to an astonishing 18. 8 million Americans. In addition, one out of twenty people will suffer from major depressive disorder this year general loss of interest and energy, and an inability to experience pleasure (National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 2...
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Coronary Heart Disease Cost Effectiveness
855 wordsThe subject under consideration is the treatment of high blood cholesterol in Adults. Statins (reductase inhibitors HMG-CoA) are widely applied for treatment of hypercholesterolemia. Their inhibitory action is based on agonize in relation to reductase HMG-CoA, thus they reduce the LDL concentration to greater extend than other preparations lowering the level of cholesterol. Besides they normalize the concentration of triglycerides of the patients with hypercholesterolemia. Statins are easy to wi...
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Social Learning Theory Violent Video Games
2,140 wordsAggressive Stimulation Theory Many television programs involve a substantial amount of violence in one form or another. What impact do they have on the development of aggression? Research on violent television and films, video games, and music reveals unequivocal evidence that media violence increases the likelihood of aggressive and violent behaviour in both immediate and long-term contexts. The effects appear larger for milder than for more severe forms of aggression, but the effects on severe...
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U S Department National Institute Of Justice
1,693 words... and female gangs are substantially less violent. The crimes committed by females were mostly simple battery or assault. Non-violent or petty crimes were mostly for drug and alcohol use. They may often be used as look-outs or to carry weapons or drugs for the male members. Females also tend to join or associate with gangs at a younger age and leave earlier then the male gang member. Why do youths join? Youths raised in impoverished and deprived conditions are drawn to gangs for the support, m...
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Brain Tumors Brain Stem
1,215 wordsBrain CanceThe brain is the center of thought, emotion, memory, speech, and many more, and it is the most sophisticated organ in the human body. A hard skull protects the brain where it floats in a fluid called Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF). The brain is generally set apart from the rest of the body, and functions rather differently too. Most of the brain cells are called astrocytes, and they basically support and serve the 10 billion working cells that are called neurons. These neurons make about 1...
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Committed By Juveniles Played A Big
543 wordsOne of the biggest problems which the United States is faced with is juvenile crime. The reason experts feel juvenile? s commit crimes is because of risk factors when they were younger but experts still have not found the main reason why juvenile? s commit crimes. Some risk factors associated with juvenile crime are poverty, repeated exposure to violence, drugs, easy access to firearms, unstable family life and family violence, delinquent peer groups, and media violence. Especially the demise of...
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Psychological Reports Psychological Association
1,295 wordsMindy Wudarsky July 5, 2000 The Physical Self Causes of Higher Depression Rates among Women Depression is an illness that plagues millions of Americans. The depressed person is not only emotionally unwell; he or she also often becomes physically unwell as a result of the depression. The Department of Health and Human Services lists among the symptoms of depression decreased energy, overeating or eating too little, insomnia or oversleeping and chronic aches or other symptoms not associated with a...
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Corporal Punishment Child Abuse
1,189 wordsChild Abuse and Adult Behavior Child abuse, and its possible effects on the relationship that the children, now adults, form with their own children. Down Nation Adobe Saint Leo University Abstract My experiment will consist of 347 families with a child age 3 through 17 at home. Child abuse information will be obtained from a randomly selected child in each family. Child abuse will be defined as an attack by a parent involving punching, kicking, biting, hitting with an object, beating up, or usi...
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