Papers on Health and Medicine
Lucid Dreaming
Words: 1907 - Pages: 7.... dreamer noticing some impossible or unlikely occurrence in the
dream, such as meeting a person who is dead, or flying with or without wings.
Sometimes people become lucid without noticing any particular clue in the dream;
they just suddenly realize that they are in a dream. A minority of lucid dreams
(about 10 percent) are the result of returning to REM sleep directly from an
awakening with unbroken reflective consciousness (LaBerge, 1985). These types of
lucid dreams occur most often during daytime napping. If the napper has been REM
deprived from a previous night of little sleep their chances of having a REM
period at sleep onset are in .....
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Legalization Of Abortion
Words: 959 - Pages: 4.... an organ or part of the woman's body, which would make the act of aborting
the child just the same as removing an appendix. This problem of when life
begins stems from the inconsistencies which come from the case of Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court interrupted that by the ninth and fourteenth amendments that
a woman has the right to an abortion. The court that day, however, did not rule
when a life begins for a human. If society is to assume that a fetus is a human
the second it leaves the uterus, then what is the unborn baby three minutes
from birth , a monkey. When an unborn baby is aborted, society must realize that
an organ was not ta .....
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Getting Daily Exercise
Words: 444 - Pages: 2.... by the advice of the people who are, in a bit of a rough spot. If we do not get enough exercise, then we run the risk of getting sick and being unhealthy. If we get an excessive amount of exercise, then again, the same result.
What I have been told over the years, was to get at least twenty minutes of exercise, three times a week. This article states that you should get at least thirty minutes of moderately intense exercise everyday of the week. I feel this is quite a bit for some people and should not be stated as the “minimum” amount you should receive. I agree with having an exercise routine throughout your life, beginning wh .....
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Euthanasia
Words: 788 - Pages: 3.... there are things they
want to do and see, there is life they still have yet to experience. The same
thing is true for a terminably ill person, they could do alot in that six months.
They write an autobiography or a novel, do a lot of reading or traveling, who
knows? It has been said that trials and pain make us stronger. Even if someone
is in pain, that pain could make them mentally stronger than if they give up and
take the easy way out. Life is pain, everyone goes through pain in their lives,
but most stick it out to the end, not giving up taking the easy way out. As
long as a person still is able to know what is happening around t .....
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Antibiotics
Words: 1003 - Pages: 4.... to be either dangerous or ineffective.
In 1928 there was a discovery by Alexander Fleming. He detected that a
substance he called "penicillin" destroyed bacteria. Then in the late 1930's,
two British scientists invented a method of extracting penicillin from the mold.
This was the start of developing new drugs to treat diseases and bacteria.
Over the years, numerous thousands of antibiotic material have been
found in nature as well as produced chemically but, there are few that are safe
and useful. However the ones that are safe and effective have saved many lives
and have helped extend life expectancy.
Right now, there is more .....
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Preventing Health Problems Through Running
Words: 514 - Pages: 2.... about Bruce Leonard, a marathoner
with a masters degree in public health. Bruce Leonard went to study the
Zuni Indian tribe. This tribe has had a bad history of diabetes until they
started to run. Leonard said, After the Zuni tribe started running, "many
Zuni were able to reduce or eliminate their diabetes medication."(5)
My research also reveled that diverticular disease can be reduced
in men that run. For instance, Marty Munson and Teresa Yeykal writes in
the article "Outrun trouble" which says, "guys who racked up the most ours
doing vigorous exercise reduced their risks of diverticular decease by a
third."(38) They al .....
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Treating Diabetes With Transplanted Cells
Words: 428 - Pages: 2.... into a vein that leads to the portal vein. Once
the islets were lodged in the smaller vessels they had direct contact with
blood. The results were had the scientist encouraged. Their patients were
given 400 thousand islets, but they did not produce enough insulin to
enable the patients to stop taking injections. In 1990, 145 patients had
received islet transplants. In most patients the islets had not been able
to control blood sugar levels or had lost some of their activity in the
three years. The islets had been performing at maximum capacity and had
become exhausted. They decided that is enough islets are supplied they
should revers .....
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
Words: 2062 - Pages: 8.... wrong, as well
as useless to resist."
-Steward Alsop, Stay of Execution
Euthanasia has become an issue of increasing attention because of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicides. As of October 21 Kevorkian has assisted in nineteen suicides. Because of the increasing number of suicides in Michigan, Gov. Engler signed an anti-suicide law in late February that made doctor-assisted suicides a felony. During the 21-month trial period of the new law anyone assisting in a suicide can be sentenced to up to four years in prison and fined more than $2,000 (Reuters, 1993).
With the passing of this law I thought that most people would be against .....
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Health Care Reforms
Words: 503 - Pages: 2.... cost of materiel through cost accounting, imbedded cost and cash flow.
One technique that seeks to discover true cost levels is a commercially used management accounting system, activity-based costing. Activities that drive cost levels are identified and then analyzed in terms of their value to the production of the end product. For health services the end product would be the aggregation of applied procedures, tests and therapies related to a particular patient treatment. Accounting systems categorize expenditures in terms of labor, materiel and capital, allocating pools of common expenses and overhead that can't be directly traced .....
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Abortion: A Women's Right And Choice
Words: 1413 - Pages: 6.... over three times more likely
to abort than those with incomes above twenty-five thousand. Unmarried
women are four to five times more likely to abort than married and the
abortion rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate
dropped 6 percent overall but the rate of abortion among girls younger than
15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per
1,000 to 189 per 1,000.
The most popular procedure involved in abortions is the vacuum
aspiration which is done during the first trimester (three months or less
since the women has become pregnant). A tube is simply inserted through the
cervix and the .....
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