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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Behavior Therapy
980 wordsAn estimated four million Americans have Obsessive-compulsive disorder, which includes 1, 000, 000 children and adolescents. These people with OCD are slaves to their rituals, and their rituals begin to take over their lives. Stephanie, an eighteen year old, had trouble with math because of her OC D. If I got to number seventeen on the math test, I would have to tap my pencil seventeen times. (Weiskopf, Catherine. Understanding Obsessive-compulsive disorders. ) Stephanie's situation shows that o...
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Basal Cell Ultraviolet Rays
1,390 wordsEvery hour one American is killed by skin cancer and every thirty seconds one American gets skin cancer. Cancer is a deadly disease that alters the DNA of a skin cell and causes it to reproduce at a rapid pace. This overproduction of cells can be harmful and in many cases deadly. Out of these cancers the most common is Basal cell carcinoma. Many steps have been made in the treatment of Basal Cell Carcinoma, some have been very successful and some not. The cells that have the altered DNA are call...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Anorexia Nervosa
1,328 wordsCauses, Symptoms, Complications And Treatments For The Causes, Symptoms, Complications And Treatments For The Eating Disorder Anorexia Nervosa. Causes, Symptoms, Complications and Treatments for the eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa. Eating disorders are devastating behavioral maladies brought on by a complex interplay of factors, which may include emotional and personality disorder, family pressure, a possible genetic or biological susceptibility and a culture in which there is an over abundance...
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902 wordsWHAT IS ECZEMA? Eczema ECZEMA WHAT IS ECZEMA? Eczema is a category of skin disease that is characterized by inflammation, itching, dry scaly skin, and in severe cases, small fluid filled blisters and insomnia. It is the most common skin disease in children today. Mild cases of Eczema are a little worse than a tendency toward dry, itching skin. Severe cases can effect the whole body, can be intensely itchy, uncomfortable, and even have an effect on the person in a psychological manner due to self...
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Yin Yang Digestive Tract
1,570 wordsTraditional Chinese Medicine Chinese Medicine Traditional medicine of China has a long historical and cultural background dating back about 2500 years. The ancient Chinese people were able to reach a level of social stability that included the ability to treat disease of emotional, physical, and spiritual origins. Although a belief in spirits as the cause of disease has remained in China even to the present day, the view that the body obeyed a natural order struck a chord in the intellectual eli...
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Ban Human Cloning Kind Of Thing
1,872 wordsClowns or Clones Cloning is a word heard of only recently within the last 2 or 3 years. Cloning is said to have proved useful in perfecting genetics among animals as well as humans. While human cloning is still a little ways off, animal cloning has already begun. Dolly the sheep was the first to be cloned and then it went on to pigs. Perhaps as we go down this line, we may someday work our way to cloning humans. Human cloning would only be a real benefit to our health and could only lead to a pr...
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Types Of Cancer Cancerous Cells
846 wordsOne Conquering Cancer Conquering Cancer One of the first scientists to prove that cancer is genetic was Biologist, Dr. Weinburg. In Weinburg s experiment he took cancerous cells from rats brains and mixed their DNA with that of normal cells. The result was that the cells became cancerous, proving that cancer is in genes. In recent years our knowledge about cancer and what causes it has greatly increased. We now know that vital genes mutating cause cancer. Just one mutated nucleotide out of 15, 0...
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National Drug Control Marijuana As Medicine
895 wordsLogical Reasoning For The Legalization Marijuana Essay, Logical Reasoning For The Legalization Marijuana 1 Last year there were more than 695, 201 marijuana arrests in the United States. Of those arrests 87. 2 % were for possession not for sale or manufacture of marijuana. There have been over 11 million marijuana arrests in the United States since 1965. 12. 7 % of today? s overcrowded federal prison population is made up of people incarcerated for marijuana offenses, with an average sentence of...
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Marijuana Should Be Legalized Nausea And Vomiting
734 wordsMarijuana Did you know that there are over 460 chemicals in marijuana, which may have medicinal uses? Marijuana at this moment is illegal in forty-nine of the fifty United States. Last year, in California, Proposition 215 was passed to legalize marijuana for medical uses. As a result of Proposition 215 and the legalization of marijuana, many glaucoma patients have found another remedy, vomiting, nausea, and loss of appetites from chemotherapy have been safely controlled, and patients and hospita...
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Medieval Era Improved Greatly Doctors
537 wordsIn the Renaissance, some aspects of medicine and doctors were still in a Dark Age. Outbreaks of disease were common, doctors were poor, medicine was primitive and many times doctors would kill a patient with a severe treatment for a minor disease! But, there were other sections where medicine and the use of medications improved greatly. This paper is written to illustrate the light and dark sides of medicine in the Renaissance. The filth of the cities promoted the spread of disease faster than d...
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Code Of Ethics Guiding Principle
1,254 wordsPrinciples of Ethics: Which ethical model is truly ethical? Wayne Dyer said, Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. This quote rings true across all fields of profession, especially rehabilitation. Why must we follow a code of ethics and not just a list of rules? Ethics are a set of standards by which an individual or a particular group decides to regulate its behavior to distinguish between what is legitimate or acceptable in pursuit of their aims and what is not. As a pro...
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Music Therapy Ancient Times
658 wordsMusic therapy is the systematic application of music in the treatment of the physiological and psychosocial aspects of an illness or disability. It focuses on the acquisition of non musical skills and behaviors, as determined by a board certified music therapist through systematic assessment and treatment planning. Music therapy in the United States of America began in the late 18 th century. However, using music as a healing medium dates back to ancient times. This is evident in biblical script...
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Allergic Reactions Smooth Muscle
906 wordsTREATING ANAPHYLAXIS In the emergency setting, anaphylaxis is a dangerous, life threatening condition that must be treated in an aggressive and timely fashion. Anaphylaxis is a condition related to acute allergic reactions. Following the body? s exposure to the offending allergen, there are common systemic reactions. The most serious reactions involve the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, but the gastrointestinal, dermatologic, and genitourinary systems are often involved causing varied sy...
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Medicare Beneficiaries Clinical Trials
580 wordsProviding Cancer Clinical Trials for Medicare Beneficiaries Less than three percent of cancer patients participate in clinical trials of new therapies. Many scientists believe that higher participation could lead to the faster development of therapies for more of those in need. Moreover, the elderly, who are most likely to get cancer, often cannot participate in such trials because Medicare does not pay for such treatments until they are established as standard therapies. Americans over 65 make ...
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Tay Sachs Disease Autosomal Recessive
812 wordsThis condition, Tay-sachs TAY-SACHS DISEASE This condition, Tay-Sachs Disease, is due to the reduction of a key enzyme. This missing enzyme is hexosominidase and is commonly referred to as Hex A. When this enzyme is missing in lipids (fats), GMZ ganglioside accumulates in inert cells. Hex A is key and is needed to break up and regulate lipids. When GMZ builds up in the neurons, the functions of the nervous system are affected. This leads to mental retardation, damages in the nervous system, and ...
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Lymph Nodes Lung Disease
1,763 wordsSarcoidosis is an Sarcoidosis Sarcoidosis Sarcoidosis is an awful disease that is afflicting people worldwide. Although not much is known about what brings the disease about, much medical research has been done to try and help patients cope with their ailments. The term Sarcoidosis is derived from two Latin words, Sarah and Oid. When put together the term means like cutting flesh (web). This term describes exactly how the physical bodies of Sarcoid patients feel. Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory d...
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Anti Psychotic Drugs People With Schizophrenia
1,653 wordsSchizophrenia, a disease of the brain, is one of the most disabling and emotionally devastating illnesses known to man. It has been misunderstood for a long time and has received relatively little attention. Schizophrenia is not a split personality, but a very rare and different disorder. It has an estimated one percent to one and a half percent of the U. S. population is being diagnosed with it over the course of their lives. Schizophrenia has a biological basis and is not caused by bad parenti...
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British Medical Journal People Who Suffer
1,254 wordsSchizophrenia is a severe mental disease that effects thousands of Americans, or only one percent of the population. Schizophrenia is defined as a disorder characterized by a range of cognitive and emotional dysfunction involving disturbances in content of thought, perceptions, language and communication skills, fluency of thought and speech, attention span, and interpersonal functioning. Schizophrenia was not always known as this. In the late 1800 s a French physician by the name of Benedict Mo...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Tourette Syndrome
772 wordsTourette Syndrome, commonly called TS, is an interested brain disorder. Some characteristics of TS are uncontrollable body movements known as tics and uncontrollable vocal noises. All ethnic groups are affected and men are three to four times more likely to have it than women. Symptoms vary from press to person and also vary in how severe they are. Research into causes is ongoing and there is no known cure. Conditions associated with Tourette's include obsessive compulsive disorder, learning dis...
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Terminally Ill Patients San Diego Greenhaven
1,898 wordsAssisted Suicide and Euthanasia Mentally competent people or guardians of non competent people should be able to make the right-to-die decision. In the following paragraphs, many controversial issues will be discussed to possibly sway your opinion on a very important issue, but in the end the decision will rely solely upon you and your beliefs. In recent years, debate has intensified in the United States over the question of whether terminally ill people should have the legal right to obtain a d...
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