Papers on Health and Medicine
Personal Commentary On The Drug Problem
Words: 785 - Pages: 3.... regardless of why drug use
began, large numbers of people continue the practice because they become
dependent on a drug.
A document from the Department of Health and Human Services says
the use of drugs has decline dramatically since the 1970’s and 1980’s when
drug use was at its peak level. The use of drugs has declined in the
percentage of eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders who believed there was a “
great risk” in trying drugs. But in 1994, the use of drugs increased and
the Department of Health and Human Services stepped up to try to help our
parents protect their children from the resurgence of drugs. The
government is doing .....
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Schitzophrenia And Other Mental Disorders
Words: 1483 - Pages: 6.... The boy's name was Corky who
fought all aspects of the disorder. Them being from physical triumphs to just
everyday kids harrassing him at school. The show was taken off the air in 1993
because of sponsers.
Records of types of disorders are unknown along with many of other
records of treatments to people inflicted with a disorder. This is mainly
because in the early 1900's people thought that people with disorders were just
stupid and they did not investigate further into the matter. The quanity of
people that have a disorder is unknown. There is an estimated guess that 15% of
the U.S. population has some sort of disorder but that is n .....
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RU-486 The New Abortion Pill: How Safe Is It?
Words: 564 - Pages: 3.... pill” to be used after unprotected sex. It was discovered that it was not effective early in the pregnancy before the progesterone levels had reached a critical threshold. The drug’s first large testing has only been under way in France and England. The massive field trail has involved dating more than 100,000 women.
The creator of RU-486 is Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu. He made this for the French pharmaceutical company named Rossel-Uclaf. RU-486 is the first of a generation of birth control drugs called “antiprogestins” considered to be a breakthrough in birth control drugs.
RU-486 works by binding to progestorone receptors in .....
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Abilities Of People With Disabilities
Words: 702 - Pages: 3.... are
discriminated against and to show what is being done to stop this raping of
the human heart.
Got a weight problem? Sure, there are a lot of diets you could try,
but why not exercise your right as a victim and strike back at
discriminatory employers? You might not lose any weight ,but at least you
can get the job you deserve. This is possible because of the courts and the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants to extend protections under
the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act to
obese people. In December of 1993 a Federal Appeals Court ruled unanimously
to uphold an order that required the state .....
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A Career As A Paramedic
Words: 1211 - Pages: 5.... room for advancing, and the result of saving someones life is well worth it. A paramedic experiences much stress and sometimes trauma every day that he or she is on the job. The thrill of a paramedic is only part that you get to see, but there is much more involved in this career than you or even I know of.
The career of a Emergency Medical Technician involves saving lives. The E.M.S. is only as strong as its weakest link (Caroline,3). During the 1960’s people and associations began wondering if there was any possible way to operate a ambulance and administer pre-hospital care efficiently with some other type of personnel besid .....
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Breach Of Confidentiality: The Legal Implications When You Are Seeking Therapy
Words: 1866 - Pages: 7.... reveal their most personal information and emotions to others.
Health professionals therefore created the patients bill of rights to install
confidence between clients and therapists. The patient has a right to every
consideration of privacy concerning his own medical care program. Case
discussion, consultation, examination, and treatment are confidential and should
be conducted discreetly. Those not directly involved in his care must have the
permission of the patient to be present. The patient has the right to expect
that all communications and records pertaining to his care should be treated as
confidential. ( Edge, 63 ) This bill of .....
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Suicide
Words: 1187 - Pages: 5.... to have the perfect life. She had been giving this serious thought
for about a year, and then one day she actually attempted to kill herself.
I thought if someone wanted to kill themselves it would be hard to fail.
That's when I figured she didn't really want to die. It was a cry for help,
and she didn't know of any other way to ask for it. I stayed a week with
her through this trying period in her life, and found out it was partly
because of her French exchange student boyfriend. They weren't broken up,
but he had to go back to France, and she couldn't see him as much as she
would have liked to. Her mother started taking her to a psychiatri .....
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Words: 1852 - Pages: 7.... quote is a valuable one to remember in
regard to FAS, "A child hurt in utero is not just a damaged baby, but a
damaged human for the rest of their lives."
Black, Susan. 1993. "Born At Risk". Executive Educator. pp 30-31.
This article contained shocking descriptions from delivery room
doctors and nurses concerning babies born with FAS. Because alcohol drunk
by a pregnant mother passes through her bloodstream to the placenta and
into the baby's bloodstream, and the fetal metabolism is fifty percent
slower than the mother's, the effects of the alcohol stay with the baby
long after it does with the mother. Doctors and nurses said that some .....
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Tuberculosis
Words: 1416 - Pages: 6.... natural body defenses are usually able to control the infection so
that it does not cause disease. In this case, the person would be infected, but
not have active disease. Only about 10% of those infected will actually develop
TB in their lifetimes.
Active disease can occur in an infected person when the body's resistance is low
or if there is a large or prolonged exposure to the germs that overcome the
body's natural defenses. The body's response to active TB infection produces
inflammation which can eventually damage the lungs. The amount of damage may be
quite extensive, yet the symptoms may be minimal. The usual symptoms of disea .....
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Huntington's Disease
Words: 772 - Pages: 3.... Huntington's is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder, meaning that if a parent has the defective Huntington's gene, his/her offspring have a 50/50 chance of also developing the disease.
Until 20 or so years ago, very little was known and very little literature was available pertaining to , but recently all that has changed. In 1993 the gene that causes HD was discovered and from that great progress has been made. While no cure yet exists, there is a large push in research to develop one. In most cases Huntington's patients can maintain independence for several years after the onset of symptoms. Several treatments are now ava .....
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