Papers on Health and Medicine
Treating Bulimia
Words: 774 - Pages: 3.... of one's daily life, and in these situations it will obviously take a much longer time. A deep-rooted eating disorder is a very serious condition and treatment typically involves years, not months. Some people expect that when the eating disturbance goes away, psychotherapy is over. This is not true. The process of psychotherapy helps a person resolve the emotional dilemmas that led them to food in the first place. This part of treatment fully begins when the eating itself is less of an issue. Then a psychotherapist deals with the psychological aspects of the disease.
When someone enters therapy, it does not necessarily mean that t .....
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The Skeletal System
Words: 2456 - Pages: 9.... and Appendicular skeleton:
The skeleton are divided into appendicular skeleton (bones of arms and legs or "appendage", and girdler, which attach them to the rest of the body), and axial skeleton (skull, backbone or "vertebrae," ribs and breast bone, or "sternum").
Axial Skeleton
The skull is made up of number of bones fused together. The backbone is composed of 33 separate different size and shaped vertebrae, and each of them are composed of centrum (base portion), and neural arch (surrounds and protects spinal cord.) 12 pairs of flat bones make up the rib basket. Its function is to support the chest wall, and prevents it from collap .....
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrom
Words: 3831 - Pages: 14.... in the range of 6,000 to 7,000 babies a year within the
continental United States alone, with a slight increase each year (Bergman xi).
This would seem to be an astounding figure, but when the figure of the total
amount of babies that are born in the United States is compared to that of the
number of deaths due to SIDS, it accounts for only a small percentage. It is a
small percentage that hopefully can be reduced. And to any parents, the loss of
just one child is definitely one too many, despite of the statistics that are
currently available. During the first week of life is where most deaths that
are associated with prematurity .....
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Heart Attacks And Its Causes
Words: 950 - Pages: 4.... disease include obesity, high blood pressure and smoking. Contrary to past knowledge, most heart attack victims actually have levels of cholesterol that would be considered normal, and as many as one fourth of heart attacks occur in people with no known risk factors at all (Cowley, 1997).
The hypothesis that high levels of cholesterol cause heart attacks may be attributed to this: LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, induces cells to produce proteins in the arterial walls of the heart and the veins leading to the heart. Macrophages eat the fatty substances in the heart and then die, causing a build up in the veins. Conventionally speaking, th .....
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Dreams
Words: 1481 - Pages: 6.... have to be restricted to do all the things you do in real life but you
could do whatever you like because it's your mind that's controlling you not
your body and gravity. For example, you could fly or walk through walls.
The powers of dreams
The dreaming world could be a very powerful thing so much so that it
causes a baby to be born because of lucid dreaming. In a true story taken from
the book called Living with Dreams a woman dreamt that she just had a period in
her dreams. This was so realistic that she actually thought she had a real
period not one dreamt up in a dream. A few days later she had sex thinking that
it was the best .....
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Multiple Births
Words: 1090 - Pages: 4.... of infants born in a
multiple pregnancy has increased. The first quintuplets, five babies born in a
single pregnancy, to survive in medical history were the Dionne quintuplets.
The use of drugs that treat female sterility, or fertility drugs, may
increase the chances of giving birth to multiple children. These drugs cause
the ovaries to release an egg once a month but in some cases they release more
than one egg, sometimes releasing several at a time, increasing the chances of a
multiple birth. The drug clomiphene citrate is one of the most widely taken
fertility drug and has resulted in the birth of twins about once in every twelve
b .....
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Euthanasia
Words: 419 - Pages: 2.... dead. What this actually means is that although there
may not be any brain activity, other vital organs can work by means of
certain equipment. Now heart- lung machines can augment the duration of
life.
Well some say that life is precious, HOW IS LIFE PRECIOUS, WHEN IT CAN
NOT BE LIVED TO THE FULLEST ?.
I believe that Euthanasia should be legalized because of that option
of dying. People say that their should be a option to live, but I think
that there should also be a option to die. Many also think that they should
stay alive because they don't want death for their own reason. Why not put
them out of there misery, if the pa .....
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Kroeger's "AIDS And The Girl Next Door"
Words: 795 - Pages: 3.... ordered almost spontaneously, and the result was not implied to be positive. A woman had reasons for having symptoms, and age and 14hr workday could easily explain the latter. Fatigue was not suspicious, similarly the rush didn’t seem to present a serious danger. Therefore, the “news” struck her and threw into a state of a shock: “My hands and feet went ice cold. I thought I would lose control of my bowels. I stood up and started pacing like an animal in a cage, looking out the window.”
Immediately other thoughts entered her mind, it can’t be happening. It must be some careless mistake made by irresponsible lab-staff. Disbel .....
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Types Of Muscle
Words: 1434 - Pages: 6.... and cardiac muscle. Most of the body’s muscle consists of striated muscle, which is the skeletal muscle. It is also called voluntary muscle because it can be consciously controlled through the central nervous system. Smooth muscle is the muscle of the internal organs and is called involuntary because it is not under voluntary control. Cardiac muscle is a special type of muscle found only in the heart. It consists of linked fibers that contract in unison producing the heartbeat.
Skeletal, or Striated Muscle Tissue:
This type of muscle is composed of long fibers surrounded by a membranous sheath, the sarcolemma. The fibers are elon .....
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The Safety Of Blood
Words: 1528 - Pages: 6.... received had been infected
with a deadly disease such as Syphilis or HIV? These are pressing concerns for
today's society. Even though one in every five people will need a blood
transfusion and the risk of contracting a disease such as AIDS is practically
negligible, people are still concerned that the blood that they receive may have
harmful or deadly diseases and that today's blood supply is not "safe."
However, "safe" means different things for different people. For some,
safe is an absolute security from any danger. This is an extreme viewpoint,
though, because most people realize that one can never be completely safe.
Anoth .....
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