Papers on Health and Medicine
U Of T Professors Devise Better Way To Test Sight In Babies
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to see small stimuli from test results using large stimuli. "In Effect,
Dr. Eizenman has developed a way of looking at brain waves that is more
sensitive than methods previously available, " says Skarf.
At the HSC, VEP's are used in a number of clinical applications: to
determine whether a visual problem is cognitive; to assess whether babies
who don't appear to see well will see better in the future; to determine a
course of treatment for such problems in which one eye turns in or is
weaker than the other eye. The second aspect of the researchers' work
involves the development of a stimulator for stereopsis, or binocular
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The Female Body
Words: 1660 - Pages: 7.... mucosa has no glands; it is lubricated by the cervical mucous glands. Its epithelial cells release large amounts of glycogen, which is anaerobically metabolized to lactic acid by resident bacteria. Consequently, the pH of a woman’s vagina is normally quite acidic. This acidity helps keep the vagina healthy & free of infection, but it is also hostile to sperm. Although vaginal fluid of adult woman is acidic, it tends to be alkaline in adolescents, predisposing sexually active teenagers to sexually transmitted diseases.
In virgins, the mucosa near the distal vaginal orifice forms an incomplete partition called the hymen. The hymen i .....
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Iron Absorption From The Whole Diet: Comparison Of The Effect Of Two Different Distributions Of Daily Calcium Intake
Words: 1435 - Pages: 6.... that eating a normal daily allowance of
calcium cuts iron absorption by as much as 50-60%(Hallberg et al. p.118). Other
studies examine the affect of iron bioavailability on menstruating, pre-
menopausal, and post-menopausal women(Rossander-Hulten et al and Gleerup et al).
One of the fears of an increased amount of calcium intake is the increased
possibility of anemia in women who are already susceptible to this condition.
The iron inhibition by calcium is a classical example of how the correction of
one nutritional problem can be the cause of another.
The physiological mechanism of this calcium-iron relationship remains a
mystery, ho .....
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Bell's Palsy
Words: 848 - Pages: 4.... and/or eyelid to droop and sag. This disorder comes on suddenly, sometimes overnight.
Symptoms of Bell's Palsy:
Sudden facial paralysis of one side of the face, including muscles of eyelid.
Flat expressionless features
Distorted smiles and frowns
Pain on the effected side of the face, ears, skull
Changes in taste, salivation or tear formation
Face may feel stiff and pulled to one side
Headache
Sensitivity to light and sound
Incidence:
Statistics indicate that Bell's Palsy affects approximately 2 out of 10,000 people, however, the actual incidence is likely to be much higher (around 1 out of 500 to 1,000). The disorde .....
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Rabies
Words: 322 - Pages: 2.... in NJ that have conditions similar to the cave in Texas where the 2 individuals developed rabies.
Treatment
There is no known effective treatment for rabies once the symptoms of the illness have developed.
After individual consideration in certain cases a decision may be made to administer rabies vaccine to prevent the development of rabies.
What Can Be Done to Prevent Rabies?
Since there is no treatment for rabies the major emphasis is am preventing it. Below is a list to some ways of limiting the spread of rabies:
1. Domestic cats and dogs should be currently immunized
against rabies. Check with your veterinarian about curre .....
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Antibiotic Resistance
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the symptoms of their disease have improved, they often stop taking the
drug. Just because the symptoms have disappeared it does not mean the
disease has gone away. Prescribed drugs should be taken until all the
medicine is gone so the disease is completely finished. If it is not, then
this will just give the bacteria some time to find a way to avoid the
effects of the drug.
One antibiotic that will always have a long lasting effect in history is
penicillin. This was the first antibiotic ever to be discovered. Alexander
Fleming was the person responsible for the discovery in 1928. In his
laboratory, he noticed that in some of his .....
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Dealing With Death
Words: 456 - Pages: 2.... with my own problems. I thought this
was best for me and everyone around me. This way I could help those people
crying get on with there lives and deal with my problems later. I found
that this isn't always the best way to deal with a friend dying either,
because I end up shutting people out. This is just another way to deal
with death and I'm not saying it's the best way to deal with death just the
way I dealt with it.
No matter how you deal with death you must learn to live with the
fact that someone you know is now no longer around. You must go on with
your life and learn how to have fun with that person around anymore. Some
peo .....
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Meditation: A In-Depth Look
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1970's to escape the drug culture of the times.
As the troubled youth of the 1970's matures into the professionals of
the 1990's, the practice of meditation has been incorporated into the medical
field and studied for its effect on the body and mind. The physical practice of
meditation slows and calms the body, lowering blood pressure and heart rate with
the use of deep breathing exercises.
The calming of the body in itself works to fight stress but those who
meditate say that meditation also helps to replenish the mind. The mind, along
with the body, needs to feel at peace. In the hustle and bustle of the
technological age, .....
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Suicide
Words: 849 - Pages: 4.... century the German general Erwin Rommel took poison
rather than be executed for his role in a plot to oust Adolf Hitler from office.
In some societies suicide has had social ties. In Japan, for example, the
customs and rules of one's class have demanded suicide under certain
circumstances. Called seppuku or popularly known as hara-kiri, which means
"self-disembowelment" it has long been viewed as an honorable method of taking
one's life. It was used by warriors after losing a battle to avoid the dishonor
of defeat. Seppuku was also used as a means of capital punishment to spare
warriors the disgrace of execution. In India, widows allowed .....
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Down Syndrome
Words: 1140 - Pages: 5.... genetic testing must be done to confirm diagnosis. The most common features associated with include low muscle tone (babies appear “floppy”), flat facial features, with a small nose, upward slant to the eyes, small skin folds on the inner corner of the eyes, small, abnormally shaped ears, single deep crease across the center of the palm, hyperflexibility, fifth finger has only one flexion furrow instead of two, extra space between the big toe and the second toe, or enlarged tongue
As many as 50 percent of the children with are also born with heart defects. Some of these defects are major, and the child will experience heart failure sh .....
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