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Web Web Web Lyme Disease Tick
611 wordsThe topic that I have chosen was Lyme disease. I reason I chose this topic was because it is a very serious problem. This disease though not usually fatal can cause serious illness. Lyme Disease an infection caused by a spirochete (spiral shaped bacterium) that is transmitted to humans by the bite of an Ixodus tick thats been infected. Since Lyme Disease is mistaken a lot of times for other diseases, it is called The Great Imitator. Lyme Disease is found on every continent except Antarctica. it ...
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Form Of Depression Electroshock Therapy
1,352 words... are often thought to have a connection with depression, when in actuality troubles sleeping is associated with the aging process or a medical condition rather than with depression. Contributing factors include the loss of a spouse or close friends, chronic pain and illness, difficulty with mobility, frustration with memory loss, difficulty adapting to changing circumstances such as moving from a home to a retirement facility, or changes within the family. Depression can also be a sign of a m...
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Surgical Abortions Clinical Trials
1,724 wordsContraceptive Research Picture: Feminist Majority Foundation In addition to its use in terminating unwanted pregnancies, MIFEPRISTONE (formerly known as RU- 486) also may be effective in treating a range of serious diseases and medical conditions, many of which particularly affect women. Yet American clinical trials for most of these uses have come to a standstill due to anti-abortion politics Available to women in many countries (but currently not in the U. S. ), mifepristone (formerly known as...
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Size And Strength Anabolic Steroids
1,721 words"Steroids. " It's a familiar word with typically negative connotations, yet they have benefits behind the drug also. No doubt you " ve heard about athletes who abuse steroids. Or you may be all too aware of the bad side effects associated with steroid medications. Well Ill be talking about steroids in depth. What steroids are composed of, development of steroids, how it was given a bad name, how it works in the major parts of the body, and better way steroids can be used. What are Steroids? Ster...
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Unborn Babies Federally Funded
1,459 words... centres is about the same, around $ 250. 00. This may be a high cost to pay for poor women or for those who are not able to afford an abortion. Many poor women are having children, many of them illegitimate, simply because they are unable to afford an abortion. This social issue leads the abortion debate down another heated debate: should the government fund abortions for the poor? Charles Murray, an advocate for government funded abortions, wrote "Illegitimacy is the single most important s...
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Involuntary Euthanasia Passive Euthanasia
1,557 wordsAt some point in our lives we will all depart this fine world, but do we have to suffer until that day comes? Unfortunately a vast majority of our society believes its wrong to consider euthanasia an option. Throughout history we have fought for the freedom of choice, like abortion, the right for woman to vote, and the right for gays and lesbians to marry, just to name a few examples. Euthanasia should be considered a pro-choice decision, as long as physicians have guidelines that they must foll...
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Oriented Approach Social Change
987 wordsIn the introduction of the book of Norman Long, Battlefields of Knowledge, Long states that theoretical and the application itself cannot be segregated into their respective venues. His book takes a different perspective specifically by not discriminating between the knowledge of understanding and knowledge of action. Longs book assumes that the theoretical and the pragmatic issues are so intimately entwined that it would be like separating melted ice from your coke. Long stresses that we must w...
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Century B C Evil Spirits
1,532 wordsWhile Greek Medicine particularly from the 5 th century B. C onwards, increasingly used scientific method to develop cures, there still however remained people that considered medicine to be a religion. The ancient Greeks (Hellenic) made important discoveries about the human body and health, so by the sixth century BC, medicinal practices focused largely on a more clinical approach involving observation. Their discoveries were made by firstly studying the human anatomy using dissection and vivis...
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York Basic Books Brain Surgery
1,274 words... autopsy. The use of autopsy came about due to the extensive embalming practices of the Egyptians. It was not unlikely for an embalmer to examine the body for a cause of the illness which killed it. The use of surgery evolved from a knowledge of the basic anatomy and embalming practices of the Egyptians. Doctors and other medical personnel kept detailed notes on papyrus describing the conditions they encountered, and the treatment applied in all areas of medicine, including gynecology, bone s...
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End Of Life Make The Decisions
1,314 wordsLiving Wills, sometimes called Advanced Directives, are legal documents accepted in all 50 states. They clearly define a persons wish to decline life-support or medical treatment in certain circumstances, usually when death is imminent. Generally, a living will takes effect when a person becomes terminally ill, permanently unconscious or conscious with irreversible brain damage. A living will also allows a person to state with particularity the forms of treatment are wanted and not wanted. For e...
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Alternative Methods Of Pest Control
1,306 words... ries can be attributed to pesticides. She continues by stating that Uzbekistan has seen a sharp increase in birth defects caused by intensive pesticide use. Myers concludes by noting that Endosulfan is a highly toxic pesticide used in West Africa but banned in many countries (n. pag. ). Maritza Rojas, author of the article entitled Pesticide Exposure in a Farming Village in Venezuela Developing Country, adds that a study in Venezuela shows that illness was higher in people who had a greater ...
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Assisted Suicide Commit Suicide
516 wordsAn attempt at suicide is often a challenge to see if anyone out there really cares. People tend to feel alone in this world, that they often find the need to do something excruciating to gain the attention of loved ones. If society legalizes assisted suicide, the message perceived by a suicide attempted is not likely to be We respect your wishes, but rather, We dont care if you live or die. Assisted suicide seems, at first blush, like a good thing to have available, but on a closer inspection, t...
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Treat Their Patients Treating Their Patients Doctors
581 wordsGod has gifted us with medical information to know his great ability in creating us. He gave us mind and feelings to use them for our benefit and progress. Medicine reflects Gods sympathy for us, as it is the only means for curing and relieving pains. Doctors are like angels who help people and work hard to heal and cure their pains. They help patients to live happily and in a more comfortable way. Unfortunately, some doctors follow the traditional medicine schools blindly, they deal with patien...
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Country To Country Animals And Plants
1,533 wordsBacteria's are one-celled organisms that were discovered in 1676 by Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek. Many people like to define bacteria as a germ, but in reality germs are a form of bacteria. Most bacteria are not harmful to ones body but helpful in ways no one expects. (List 6) For example bacteria located in soil that is used to grow food by turning dead animals and plants into the rich, dark topsoil. (Leitz 7) They also make shelter for humans and animals. Bacteria are removed from ones teeth and bo...
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Nausea And Vomiting Legalize Marijuana
890 wordsHe was my colleague and friend. He was also creative, sensitive, caring and an inspiring teacher of medicine. He was admired, respected and loved by his family, friends, students and patients. In addition to this, he was dying of a cancer which was slowly growing and expanding in his chest despite aggressive chemotherapy treatment. My colleague and friend knew he was dying and accepted his fate with his usual grace and dignity. What he was not accepting or tolerating well was the terrible side e...
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Socialized Medicine In Canada Healthcare System
1,997 wordsCanadas healthcare system has been the envy of many western industrialized countries for years. England's Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspired it in 1948 when he said: The discoveries of healing science must be the inheritance of all [] Disease must be attacked whether it occurs in the poorest or the richest man or woman, simply on the ground that it is the enemy [] Our policy is to create a national health service in order to secure that everybody in the country, irrespective of means, age...
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Prenatal Diagnosis Categorical Imperative
1,523 wordsThe case that I chose to discuss is an article which assesses the argument of whether it is ethically right or wrong to have a prenatal diagnosis of the sex of a child, in order for parents to decide if they want to keep the child or not. Some questions are raised as to whether sex selection through abortion is moral or immoral, and if it were immoral, in what circumstances, if any, would it be justified. Prenatal gender selection through abortion is a legal practice in any country where abortio...
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Royal College Biomedical Research
526 wordsA group of leading figures from the medical Royal Colleges[ 1 ] has today published a blueprint, for open debate with the government and other stakeholders, for the establishment of a National Panel which would identify and investigate suspected cases of fraud and misconduct in clinical and biological research studies. The blueprint, published in the medical journal Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh[ 2 ], proposes that a government-funded National Panel for Research Int...
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Elizabeth Blackwell First Woman
1,008 words... that he was influenced by the renaissance but on the other his style of research and technique probably dates back to the days of Aristotle and Galen. C) Elizabeth acted as a pioneer because she was the first woman in England to be allowed to become a physician. She inspired every woman aspiring to learn medicine after her. Elizabeth's actions brought womens education forward by 50 years. Elizabeth's father Newson Garrett had 12 children and he owned a pawnshop, which in 1850 became very suc...
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Children And Adolescents Child And Adolescent Psychiatry
1,460 words... if you do decide to treat the child with antidepressants, which is by far the easiest mode of treatment, the child could still be at risk for self-harm due to the risk associated with antidepressant drugs and children. As a parent, this scenario is like tossing a one-sided coin, in that with or without treatment your child may be at risk of suicidal tendencies. Another concern is the dosage of antidepressants being given to children and adolescents. Currently, the lowest dosage for an antide...
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