Papers on Health and Medicine
Premature Infancy
Words: 1314 - Pages: 5.... well enough to be able
to distinguish these different senses, which causes the baby to panic and lose
control of its actions.
The main underdeveloped parts of a premature baby are its organs,
chiefly the lungs and the brain. The lungs are developed in the last few weeks
of pregnancy, and if the child is born before the thirty sixth week, he/she may
require some special attention. Usually, the child is monitored closely for
the first few weeks of its life, in order to make sure there is no problems
with the breathing or any other function of its body. The premature baby will
probably need supplemental oxygen to help it through the ea .....
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Leukemia
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insert a needle into the bone marrow to extract it and then then view it under a
microscope to see if it has any abnormalities that relate to that of leukemia.
Some of the symptoms that are involved with leukemia include: lack of energy,
fever, susceptibility to infection (because of lack of white blood cells),
excessive or repetitive bleeding, easy bruising, and also enlargement of the
liver, spleen and lymph nodes (997).
This disease has been known to cause about "10% of all cancer deaths,
about 50% of all cancer deaths in children and adults less than 30 years old,
and at least 4 million people now living are expected to .....
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Dreams
Words: 853 - Pages: 4.... reactions to these nightmares would be leaping up from your sleep, and sitting atop your bed in a cold sweat. How about those moments where we may start dreaming about one thing, and without warning we are snatched into another dream that is completely irrelevant to the preceding one. Why?
Mankind has been baffled since the beginning of time as to why they [] occur. Minds from all over the globe have united, and each person has attempted to formulate theories of their own as to why all of this is occurring inside our conscious and subconscious mind. Though none of these theories have been proven to be 100% correct, it probably will no .....
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Adolescent Depression - The Under Acknowledged Disease
Words: 1085 - Pages: 4.... Sometimes the symptoms of mood disorders take on different forms in children than in adults. Adolescence is a time of emotional turmoil, mood swings, gloomy thoughts, and heightened sensitivity. It is a time of rebellion and experimentation. Blackman (1996) observed that the "challenge is to identify depressive symptomatology which may be superimposed on the backdrop of a more transient, but expected, developmental storm." Therefore, diagnosis should not lay only in the physician's hands but be associated with parents, teachers and anyone who interacts with the patient on a daily basis.
Unlike adult depression, symptoms of youth depression .....
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Facts On AIDS
Words: 502 - Pages: 2.... hands 3. eating in a
restaurant 4. sharing food, plates, cups or utensils 5. using bathrooms, water
coolers, or telephones 6. swimming in a pool or using a hot tub 7. donating
blood 8. being bitten by mosquitoes or any other insects
Symptoms:
Symptoms may not show for 10 years after you become infected by the HIV virus.
A month or two after exposure to the virus there may be flu-like symptoms that
may last a week to a month and is often mistaken for those of another viral
infections. More persistent or severe symptoms that may not surface for a
decade or more: - swollen lymph glands - recurrent fever, including "night
sweats" - rapid wei .....
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Heart Attacks
Words: 604 - Pages: 3.... in cigarettes and cigars contain
a chemical called nicotine. When inhaled into the lungs, nicotine causes the
release of hormones in the body. These hormones raise the blood pressure.
Consequently, a person's heart rate increases 15 to 25 beats per minute.
Nicotine also causes the blood vessels to contract. People who smoke have a
harder time keeping their hands and feet warm because their blood does not
circulate as well as it does in non-smokers. When the heart rate increases and
the blood vessels remain constricted for an extended period of time, ten or more
years, arteries begin to close up. When an artery feeding blood to th .....
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Teenage Suicide
Words: 1015 - Pages: 4.... death of a loved one, the loss of a valued relationship, and the loss of
self esteem are some significant losses which might be a factor in teen
suicide("The Real World [Suicide: Facts]," 1). Perceived abuse such as
physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, social abuse or neglect can lead to
self-murder("Teen Suicide," 3). Significant changes, losses, and abuse can
promote suicidal tendencies.
Few suicidal people have some type of depression, yet those who have one
can be provoked to commit suicide. There are two main types of depression
suffered by suicidal people("Suicide," {Grolier}). The first type is reactive
depression. This .....
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Depression
Words: 1645 - Pages: 6.... think a genetic vulnerability combined with environmental factors may activate an imbalance in brain chemicals called neurotransmitters (Mental Health). seems to run in families and can be brought on by stress or physical illness.
Having a family history of increases your risk of developing the condition. Researchers have identified several genes involved in bipolar . But not everybody with a family history of will develop the disorder. Your genes may have predisposed you to be at a certain point on the happiness- scale, just as other genes may have predisposed you to be at a certain weight or height (Mental Health).
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Can Genetics Cause Crime?
Words: 893 - Pages: 4.... to white women which only 1 in 496
were killed due to violent crimes. This is not surprising that young males
commit most of the serious crimes. According to an article in Scientific
American, only 12.5 percent of violent crime in the U.S. in 1992 was committed
by females. What is also surprising according to W.W. Gibbs the author of
"Seeking the Criminal Element," in Scientific American,(1995 March) pp 100-107,
is that a very small number of criminals are responsible for the majority of the
violent crime.
Sullivan who is now the president of the Morehouse School of Medicine in
Atlanta wanted to try and address the violence as a public .....
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Health
Words: 1162 - Pages: 5.... their area of study on determining health
status over the course of adulthood, and determining the nature and origin of
age-related diseases. They are also concerned with describing the effects of
health on behavior and describing the effects of behavior on health. The goals
of these specialists are: prevention of diseases, preservation of health,
and improved quality of health for those suffering from disability and disease.
What does it mean to be healthy? Health is a state of complete physical
, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease, illness
or infirmity. It is important to distinguish between .....
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