Papers on Health and Medicine
Sickle Cell Anemia
Words: 190 - Pages: 1.... Cell Anemia are pale skin, short of breath, easily
tired, and whites of eyes turn yellow.
Ethnic or special groups affected with Sickle Cell Anemia are mostly
blacks, and Hispanics of Caribbean ancestry. The disease also affects some
people of Arabian, Greek, Maltese, Sicilian, Sardinian, Turkish, and Southern
Asian ancestry.
How transmitted type of gene or chromosomes that causes the disease.
Sickle Cell Anemia is a sex linked gene. One way somebody could get this
disease is if both parents are a carrier for Sickle Cell Anemia. There is one
in four chance that a baby will have the disease.
How the disease is diagnosed. Doctors are .....
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Abortion: The Woman’s Right
Words: 949 - Pages: 4.... and safe environment should remain legal.
Women considering abortion are dealing with a range of problems and are only overwhelmed by criticism. Circumstances and conditions leading to the termination of a pregnancy can vary widely. Whether caused by rape, incest, or age and ignorance, an unwanted pregnancy remains an unwanted pregnancy. Abortion causes a woman to choose between her life or the potential child's. This is always a hard decision to make. It involves a lot of thought, and may cause guilt or regret after the procedure; but dismissing that right to choose would not benefit anyone. Pregnancy can have horrible affects on adole .....
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Biologic Nutrition And Nutrients
Words: 938 - Pages: 4.... given up completely.
Although there is no general formula to determine individual vitamin requirements, there is the recognition that vitamins play a role in preventing disease and maintaining health. Vitamins do not contain calories and do not supply energy. In other words, they do not contribute to weight gain. They are, however, most important as constituents of enzymes, those organic catalysts which enable biological processes to take place.
It is totally impossible to imagine life without vitamins and enzymes. Through enzymes, vitamins stimulate metabolic processes, converting food to energy and accelerating biological functions. .....
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Stress
Words: 1666 - Pages: 7.... of life. We all must deal with stress; question is how we handle and
control it. With downsizing the buzz word in the modern corporate world,
companies have become mean and lean. Employees are compelled to be more
efficient; they find themselves taking on the work of what used to be two. The
result is longer hours, less time for outside activities, and consequently
increased stress.
According to Business Week, the typical American works 47 hours a week, and if
current trends continue, in 20 years "the average person would be on the job 60
hours a week." Another factor that increases stress is technological
advancements. With .....
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Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Words: 2523 - Pages: 10.... which enables them to be deceitful without feeling bad about whatever they do. The under developed emotional system as explained in the video "The World of Personality Disorders volume 5" says the sociopath is "emotionally retarded" .
The sociopathic behavior problems that start as a child have links to heredity, a family with a pre-disposition to perform crimes, alcoholic parents that do crimes, irresponsible behavior that persists and parents that do not discipline. The child that will eventually be a sociopath exhibits certain feeling inside that they are inadequate, shamed and because of that they are teased and made fun of. The child .....
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Is Euthanasia Immoral?
Words: 1635 - Pages: 6.... told to preform a " No Code" which means that
they should let the patient die peacefully with any amount of painkillers or
medication requested by the patient(McCuen 3). Doctors that are treating a dying
patient should treat them with care. They should make them as comfortable as
possible and give them medication to dull their pain.
Instructors tell doctors in training to treat dying patients as people "
that are alive but just that their death is more imminent than our own"(Moroney
2).
Many families could rest easy that their relative is being treated well
and are receiving the necessary attention. A lot of terminal patie .....
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Be Healthy And Drug Free
Words: 295 - Pages: 2.... of drugs. Some drugs are good for you
and some could kill people. Some good drugs are anesthetics, hormones, vaccines,
and antibiotics. Some bad drugs are narcotics. These are sleep inducers.
Examples of this are codeine, heroin, and morphine. Other drugs include cocaine,
nicotine, and marijuana.
Nowadays, drugs are a big problem in our society. The only drugs that
you should take should be drugs that your doctor prescribed for you. And you
should only take the amount of that drug that he tells you to. Every drug can
be poisonous if you take too much.
Peer pressure is hard to turn down. Peer pressure is when your peers
(the .....
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
Words: 1562 - Pages: 6.... disturbance or alteration
in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness.
If the disturbance occurs in memory, Dissociative Amnesia of Fugue results;
important personal events cannot be recalled. Dissociative Amnesia with
loss of memory may result from wartime trauma, a severe accident or rape.
Dissociative Fugue is indicated by not only loss of memory, but also travel
to a now location and the assumption of a new identity. Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD), although not officially a dissociative disorder,
can be classified as part of the dissociative spectrum. In PTSD, re-
experiencing of the trauma (flashbac .....
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How Alcohol May Affect Human Behaviour
Words: 1074 - Pages: 4.... widely used.
The effects of alcohol on a individual's body vary according to: (2)
with the amount consumed.
the way the alcohol is taken.
the individual's body (size weight, health).
the individual's experience.
the individual's mood.
the circumstance in which alcohol is consumed (with food, in a social
gathering, with other drugs etc.)
The immediate effects of alcohol on an individual varies but can produce a
wide range of effects including: (2)
Loss of inhibitions.
Flushing and dizziness.
General impairment of brain and nervous system functions.
General loss of co-ordination. .....
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Anger Management And Health
Words: 2155 - Pages: 8.... it with fear.
Plato was the first to suggest that anger was a disbalance. According to
Dr. Willard Gaylin, a prominent psychologist, anger is still seen as a
disbalance by many of today's psychologists. Since Plato, anger has suffered a
bad reputation. We only have to imagine a domestic abuse scene to immediately
condemn anger in all of its manifestations.
There is a reason why anger is viewed in a negative light. Nobody likes it
when someone is angry with them. We tend to avoid the wrath of those around us.
This is one reason we see anger as negative. Another reason may lie closer to
Plato's concept of imbalance. The nega .....
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