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Attention Deficit Disorder Childs Behavior
1,049 wordsAttention Deficit Disorder otherwise known as ADD is a condition that refers to an individuals inability to control their own behavior or impulse (McEwan 70). This can begin in early childhood and interfere with childrens ability to do well in school and social situations. These patients also have troubles blocking out noise or other stimuli in order to focus on a task or what is being said. ADD is a chronic problem that can be seen as early as infancy and can extend to adulthood. There are two ...
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Side Effects School Hours
1,267 words... symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, it has been shown in numerous studies that stimulant medication provides significant benefits to between 70 and 80 % of children with ADHD. The most commonly prescribed medication used to treat ADHD is Ritalin (the generic form is called methylphenidate), although numerous other medications are also used. (Ingersoll, Goldstein, pg. 88) It is not known exactly how the medication works, but available evidence suggests that it works by co...
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Pope John Paul Ii Genetic Engineering
1,754 wordsThe Benefits and Risks of Genetic Engineering The arrival of genetic engineering presents Catholics with an interesting moral dilemma. Although it clearly brings with it immense benefits for the entire human race, certain aspects of it don't bide by Catholic moral teachings. If a doctor uses biotechnology to diagnose or cure a patient, is he playing God, or simply saving life? Due to issues like these, the Catholic Church holds certain reservations when it comes to this new field in science. The...
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American Cancer Society Prostate Cancer
1,044 wordsCancer of the prostate is defined as a malignant tumor growth within the prostate gland. The purpose of the prostate gland is to surround the urethra, which is the tube within you urinary system that carries the urine from the bladder to the penis, the male sex organ. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 180, 000 cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed in the United States. The American Cancer Society also states that from these 180, 000 cases, and approximate 32, 000 men die fr...
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Degree Known As Doctor 17 September 2002 Web Dental
691 wordsDentistry is a career in healthcare that works in the mouth. Dentists are trained to diagnose, prevent, and treat various problems associated with teeth and mouth tissue. It is the job of the dentist to be fully aware of different types of dental problems and be able to recognize those problems through analyzing x-rays, as well as visual variation between individual mouths. The primary focus of dental care is to teach prevention to its patients of how to prevent gum disease, tooth loss, etc. It ...
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Brennan Moos Rudolf Brennan Moos Rudolf 1996 Women
893 wordsCaroline Knapp poignantly and profoundly reflects the problem of alcoholism in the book Drinking, A Love Story. The author details how she started drinking when she was fourteen years old, and spent almost 20 years as an alcoholic in denial, managing much of the time to hide her disease even from herself. Knapp's very personal profile offers a glimpse not only into the world of alcohol addiction, its impact on families, potential treatments, but into the scope of the disease as it relates to wom...
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Factor Viii Clotting Factor
1,200 words... ecombinant DNA technology and the discovery of the genes that control production of factor VIII have led to the development of recombinant factor concentrates that do not rely on plasma at all. What is the Cause of Hemophilia? Hemophilia occurs when one of the factors needed for blood to clot is missing or the amount present is too low for normal clotting to occur. Factor VIII is missing or too low in about 90 % of hemophilia cases. Factor IX is deficient in about 9 % of cases. Factor XI, X,...
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Sleep Apnea Sleep Disorders
1,272 words... e Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) measures the speed of falling asleep. In this test, patients are given several opportunities to fall asleep during the course of a day when they would normally be awake. For each opportunity, time to fall asleep is measured. People without sleep problems usually take an average of 10 to 20 minutes to fall asleep. Individuals who fall asleep in less than 5 minutes are likely to require some treatment for sleep disorders. The MSLT may be useful to measure t...
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Symptoms Of Schizophrenia Mentally Ill
702 wordsSchizophrenia is a complex syndrome characterized by cognitive and emotional dysfunctions including delusions and hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and inappropriate emotions. Since there is no cure to this disorder, clinicians rely on the DSM IV to differentiate between symptoms. The symptoms of the disorder can disrupt a person's perception, thought, speech, and movement in almost every aspect of daily functions. Mental health clinicians distinguish between positive, negative, ...
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
608 wordsWhat is genetic testing? Genetic testing is widely used by the modern medicine to find out whether the person has a genetic precondition of disease or whether he is likely to get such a disease. Genetic issues are often related to the themes of bioethics, human decision making and moral and legal issues. Genetic issues are often discussed in relation to ethical aspects, which seem to be mutually contradictory. Is society justified in insisting that people submit to genetic screening, counseling ...
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Eating Disorders Suicidal Thoughts
620 wordsMany reasons why teens go to this extreme is because they do not have any support from friends or family. Patros, in his Helping Your Child Cope With Depression and Suicidal Thoughts, describes the social origins of depression. The researcher discusses the parents positive influence on depressed children in the body of his research. Patros stresses the importance of good communication in the family. If good communication habits are not fostered when children are young, then in the later adolesce...
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Health Care Workers Hiv Positive
378 wordsArticle Critique The qualitative study Content analysis of AIDS patients' beliefs about the treatment offered by health care workers in the field of human services was chosen for examination. The study used content analysis as a data gathering method. The purpose of the study was to examine and verify the opinions and beliefs of AIDS patients concerning the attachment of their needs during the clinical treatment of AIDS (Figueiredo, 1996). The content analysis was efficiently performed to know s...
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Love And Respect Works Of Literature
818 wordsMothers and fathers People use different means trying to express their feelings to parents. Some people just dont express them thinking it is understandable without words. Some use just words, the others express their feelings in poems, songs, books. How are these feelings expressed in the undermentioned works of literature? What are these feelings? In her poem The Courage that my Mother Had Edna St. Vincent Millay does not describe her feelings directly. But we see love to her mother in every l...
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Yellow Wallpaper Doesn T
1,632 wordsThe Yellow Wallpaper The Yellow Wallpaper is about a creative woman whose talents are suppressed by her dominant husband. His efforts to oppress her in order to keep her within society's norms of what a wife is supposed to act like, only lead to her mental destruction. He is more concerned with societal norms than the mental health of his wife. In trying to become independent and overcome her own suppressed thoughts, and her husbands false diagnosis of her; she loses her sanity. One way the stor...
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Toxic Shock Syndrome Kidney Failure
868 wordsImpetigo is a bacterial infection caused by Streptococcus and / or Staphylococcus organisms. Both staphylococcus and streptococcus are part of the normal flora found on human skin, but given the opportunity they can become pathogenic. Streptococcus is a spherical bacterium that is arranged into chains. It is Gram positive and catalase negative. Group A Streptococcus (GAS), such as Streptococcus pyogenes, are responsible for most cases of streptococcal infections. The letter A is part of a classi...
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Cause Of Death
1,033 words### Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Human Development through the Life Span Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2000 CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 4 II. What is SIDS? 4 III. SIDS Procedures 4 - 5 SIDS Annual Rate IV. Risk Factors 6 V. Current Research... 6 - 7 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 8 More children die of SIDS in a year than all children who die of cancer, heart disease, pneumonia, child abuse, AIDS, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy combined. During the eighties, SIDS accounted for approximately 7, 000 dea...
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Birth Defects Blood Pressure
687 wordsMarfan Syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder, affecting approximately one in ten-thousand people. Its affects both males and females equally, and is equally prevalent in all races. About one in four affected individuals are the result of new mutations, however in most cases the syndrome is inherited from one parent with the disorder. In 1991 the cause of Marfan Syndrome was traced to a defective gene on chromosome 15. This gene, with normal functioning, tells the body to produce fibrilla, a...
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Maxim De Winter Fell In Love
1,370 wordsThe Main Characters: Maxim Rebecca Rebecca The Main Characters: Maxim De Winter- The owner of Manderley, a famous home known all over the world, his true pride and joy. A widower of his late wife Rebecca. He is a well-known man, with lots of pride, dignity and intelligence. Rebecca- Also known as the antagonist throughout the story. She caused all the problems for just about everyone. Her personality was so strong willed that everyone fell in love with her. To all of the people she was known as ...
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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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Diagnosed With Schizophrenia Fifth Grade
1,167 wordsJoan Schizophrenia Background and characteristics Joan Becker looks like a normal person. At times, she acts like a normal person and there are even times when she talks like a normal person. But, in getting to know Joan you realize she is far from normal. Joan suffers from schizophrenia. She has little to no friends. The friends she does make usually dont stay her friend for very long. Joan shies away from social situations and even pushes the people she loves away. A characteristic that contra...
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