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1,955 wordsBest Candidate Introduction There has been a trend within recent years to foster the use of digital technologies in our life. Medicine is no exception to the rule, as it continues to use new generation of equipment, which uses the state-of-the-art digital technologies aimed to facilitate obtaining and processing data. This trend develops dynamically, and digital x-ray diagnostics becomes the most technologically advanced direction in the medicine. The paper explores the history of x-ray, the his...
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Running Head Diagnosing Alzheimer Disease Parkinson Als Huntington
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Cat Scanning The Best In Early Diagnostics
2,074 wordsCAT Scanning. The Best in Early Diagnostics? The modern medicine has gone through many stages during its evolution. If we are to ask any doctor what is the most important thing during medication, most of the times we will get a single answer: the timely and correct diagnosis. The history of diagnosis begins with the simplest visual check and cardiogram, and nowadays continues with sophisticated ultra-sound examinations and CAT Scanning. Currently CAT Scan is the most advanced method of diagnosti...
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Substance Abuse Psychological Disorders
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Socio Cultural Management Plan
1,263 wordsDepression Introduction This assignment will look at a case study of a adult female who presents herself with a three month of hospitalization. The patient is getting divorce after 22 years. She sees suicide as an ideal but has no plan of action. She also suffers from abnormal sleeping patterns, waking at night and lacks concentration on her work. In the context of the above scenario we will look at diagnostic possibilities, possible causes for the depression, impact on her life, relevant safety...
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Multiple Personality Disorder American Psychiatric Association
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Ill Patients Care Financing
2,269 wordsPage 2 I. Introduction The rising cost of medical care in the United States has been a concern for quite some time. Beginning in the 1960 s with the advent of Medicare, a system has been needed that will balance cost with services provided within acceptable parameters. In 1982, the US Congress placed a cap on operating expenses for each Medicare case treated in a hospital, as a protective measure to insure adequate payment within reasonable limits. A prospective payment system (PPS) was initiate...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd
4,751 wordsDifferential Diagnosis Today the full-blown case of TS is unlikely to be confused with any other disorder. However, only a decade ago TS was frequently misdiagnosed as schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Sydenhams chorea, epilepsy, or nervous habits. The differentiation of TS from other tic syndromes may be no more than semantic, especially since recent genetic evidence links TS with multiple tics. Transient tics of childhood are best defined in retrospect. At times it may be difficult...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Effects
2,065 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a condition affecting children born to women who drink heavily during pregnancy. There are three criteria used to describe the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure and to make a diagnosis of FAS. The first of these is a pattern of facial anomalies, these features include: &# 61558; Small eye openings &# 61558; Flat cheekbones &# 61558; Flattened groove between nose and upper lip &# 61558; Thin upper lip These characteristics can gradually diminish as the child age...
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Human Genome Project British Medical Association
3,429 wordsGenetics: Issues of IVF, screening, pre-selection, genetic testing, cloning and the social implications. James Watson once said, We used to think that our fate was in our stars. Now we know that, in large measure, our fate is in our Genes (Jaroff 1998). On June 26 th 2000, The Human Genome Project will unveil its rough draft mapping of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences within the human chromosomes (genetic code), to the public. The project has been ongoing since the late eighties, and is...
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4,326 wordsGenetics: Issues of IVF, screening, pre-selection, genetic testing, cloning and the social implications. James Watson once said, ? We used to think that our fate was in our stars. Now we know that, in large measure, our fate is in our Genes? (Jaroff 1998). On June 26 th 2000, The Human Genome Project will unveil its rough draft mapping of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences within the human chromosomes (genetic code), to the public. The project has been ongoing since the late eighties, and...
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Ovarian Cancer Oral Contraceptives
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Dsm Iv Diagnostic Criteria
2,109 wordsAlthough at first sight the DSM-IV classification system appears to provide clinicians with a useful framework of which to view their clients, on closer inspection however, the picture is somewhat less satisfactory. Criticisms of the system range from Wakefield's (1997) analysis that psychological presentation ranges from problems of living to harmful dysfunction; through to Livesley, Schroeder &# 038; Jangs (1994) counter-argument that evidence of discontinuity between different diagnoses and n...
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Long Term Effects Coronary Arteries
2,146 wordsDuring the late twentieth century many new diseases have been discovered. Tomisaku Kawasaki discovered one of these diseases, Kawasaki disease, or technically muco cutaneous lymph node disease, in 1961. This particular disease remained undetected for so long because its cause is still unknown. Dr. Kawasaki, a pediatrician, uncovered this disease after studying fifty cases during his practice in Japan. Kawasaki found that in those fifty cases most were characterized by fever, redness of the eyes,...
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Mental Retardation Mentally Retarded
3,168 wordsRunning Head: Cognitive Impairments The definition of mental retardation is made up of three classifications. The onset must be recognized before the age of 18, the individual must show deficits in adaptive behavior and have a sub-average intellectual level. (Wong, D. , 1995) General intellectual function is determined by IQ, which is measured with one or more standardized and individually administered intelligence tests. Mental retardation is not based solely on IQ. Adaptive function must be si...
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Prenatal Diagnosis
2,186 wordsPrenatal DianosisHeredity Disorders, Other Biochemical Diseases, and Disfiguring Birth Defects There are over 250 recognized sex-linked diseases, affecting every organ system. Of these, 95 % affect males, (Emery, 1968). Despite these many sex-linked diseases, at present prenatal diagnosis can specifically be made in fewer than 40 diseases. (Emery, 1968). These sex-linked diseases are individual rare and some are named after physicians who described them, for example, Hemophilia A and B, Duchenne...
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