Papers on Health and Medicine
Attention Deficit Disorder
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Most scientist now believe that a brain dysfunction or abnormality in
brain chemistry could be to blame for the symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder.
The frontal lobes of the brain are thought to be most responsible for the
regulation of behavior and attention. They receive information from the lower
brain, which regulated arousal and screens incoming messages from within and
outside of the body. The limbic system , a group of related nervous system
structures located in the midbrain and linked to emotions and feelings, also
sends messages to the frontal lobes. Finally, the frontal lobes are suspected to
be the site of wo .....
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Forensic Pathology
Words: 1249 - Pages: 5.... of these include the following: pronounce victim(s) dead,
look for external injuries, stage of rigor mortis, take body temperature
to determine time of death, examine area around body, determine how and
when the body will be moved, and make preliminary sketches and notes.
There are numerous ways a person can die. A forensic
pathologist's main role is to figure out how a victim died. First they
look at the proximate cause of death. That is the initial injury that led
to a sequence of events which caused the death of the victim. Second they
look at immediate cause of death. That is the injury or disease that
finally killed the indi .....
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Euthanasia
Words: 1901 - Pages: 7.... to believe that voluntary, passive is the same as suicide; involuntary is considered to be murder.
Because poses classic dilemmas as to its morality, it is not surprising that many issues arise in the legal and medical arenas. In law, the resolution of a particular case cannot always be applied to resolve another. In the medical realm, interpretation of medical doctrine concerning treatment of terminally ill patients can result in entirely different applications.
In two relatively recent cases, the Supreme Court had to decide the future of patients that were considered to be in chronically persistent vegetative states. The courts .....
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Alternative Medicine
Words: 1734 - Pages: 7.... report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Americans make more visits to alternative healers and spend more money on alternative treatments than they do on conventional medicine. (Eisenberg 1). But physicians are skeptical about the value of such therapies and not infrequently hostile to them. The skepticism is well founded.
Those skeptical about the value of claim that the Office of (OAM) does not take the proper unbiased, scientific stance but acts instead as an advocate for . Skeptics point to studies supported by the OAM that do not use the rigorous scientific methods of conventional medical research. experts c .....
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A Better Idea Of Attention Deficit Disorder
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the behavior of an ADD or ADHD child might occur because of stress due to
school, parents, or friends before the child is emotionally equipped to
handle the situation. He calls ADD a neurological disorder that affects the
motivational system (42, 20). Another theory of what causes ADD is the low
amount of glucose metabolism in the brain. ADD affects two important parts
of the brain that are connected with the ability to pay attention and the
ability to regulate motor activity (Phelan 46). Many people believe that
bad parenting, physical brain damage, diet, and allergies cause ADD. Thomas
Phelan argues that these things indeed do not ca .....
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Condoms In Schools Do Not Solve Teen Problems
Words: 750 - Pages: 3.... to prove that students will not be pressured into becoming sexually active as a result of increased condom availability. Therefore, representatives of the study are asking, along with the Board of Education, to continue to supply funds to the programs.
During the 1980s, Urban Institute researchers at the University of Illinois found that, [efforts have increased to alert the public to the dangers of HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, and unintended pregnancy, yet these problems have increased.]2 Adolescents and young adults have been especially hit hard. In addition, [among all sexually active people, teenagers have the highest ra .....
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The History, Use, And Effectiveness Of Medicinal Drugs
Words: 4503 - Pages: 17.... is
known as the field of Medicine. In ancient times Medicine was a vague field,
mostly incorporated with magic and superstition, it was not like our modern
medical system of scientific analysis.
Early Amputation Tools Shown here are
the contents of a case of amputation instruments dating from about 1800.
Within medicine the most crucial component, besides the
professional Doctors,
Nurses and Pharmacologists are the drugs that make it possible for
millions of
humans everyday to overpower their ailments. Within the field of
Medicine,
Pha .....
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Abortion And The Mentally Handicapped
Words: 1004 - Pages: 4.... your paranoid schizophrenia, or cause some other mental disorder. Mrs.
Smith has informed us that she herself is not capable of caring for the child.
We feel that you will suffer further if you are forced to give up the child.
Your psychiatrist has come to the conclusion that you are not capable of being a
responsible parent, but you are, at times, capable of making rational moral
decisions. However, because you are not able to make important, rational, moral
decisions most of the time your mother can claim that you are not mentally
capable of raising a child. Also. We took in to account that the father of this
unborn child is unknow .....
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Introduction To Human Services
Words: 2754 - Pages: 11.... I work on accepting each person where they are in their life,
which takes strength. I may be saying in my mind, 'Can't you see your way out
of the prison you're in?', but then I remember that I used to be in the same
place, and it took years to find my way out. I still struggle with my addiction,
and it still affects me, just not so profoundly."
"What I would like to do is work with teenagers. As a teenager, I was
befriended by a Young Life leader. He was a man in his 40's and didn't want
anything from me but to be my friend. When I drank beer at lunch, he didn't
tell me to not drink. I don't remember his words so much as the f .....
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Creatine
Words: 848 - Pages: 4.... can work at a higher intensity for longer. This will make your
muscle growth speed up.
Who does creatine effect? Well it benefits those people who are
serious about training body builders, track and field (mostly throwers),
sprint swimmers, anyone who works out for long periods of time at high
intensity. So it won't benefit you if your idea of a work out is getting
some food from the kitchen for the movie you are about to watch.
As of right now creatine is legal in every level of competition
from high school to professional to Olympic. So is it worth taking? If
you ask anyone who is taking creatine they will say yes. .....
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