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Sexual Abuse And Repressed Memories
Number of words: 689 - Number of pages: 3

.... their brain. The left stores sequential, logical, language-oriented experience; the right stores perceptual, spatial experiences. When people try to retrieve right-brain information through left-brain techniques, they sometimes hit a blank (Bass 71). Psychologists also state that forgetting is one of the most common and effective ways children deal with sexual abuse. Many children are able to forget about the abuse, even as it is happening (Bass 42). There is credible data on the reconstructive nature of memory, social influence, and the power of therapy to produce conformity in the .....

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Cancer
Number of words: 1507 - Number of pages: 6

.... similar to normal tissue while malignant tissue is abnormal and has an unstructured appearance. Of greater importance, benign tissue does not metastasize, or begin to grow in other sites, like malignant tumors do. Cancer always refers to metastasized tumors but the term tumor is not always necessarily cancer. A tumor is any living tissue that is distinguishable as abnormal living tissue. After a cancer forms, it can also change from a benign to a malignant state, therefore making the cell grow at a more rapid rate. The development of the cell starts when it forms notable abnormalities in chr .....

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Schitzophrenia And Other Mental Disorders
Number of words: 1483 - Number of pages: 6

.... of types of disorders are unknown along with many of other records of treatments to people inflicted with a disorder. This is mainly because in the early 1900's people thought that people with disorders were just stupid and they did not investigate further into the matter. The quanity of people that have a disorder is unknown. There is an estimated guess that 15% of the U.S. population has some sort of disorder but that is not factual. This is because the survey people only can estimate from the people who check theirselves into a institution, the ones who do so make up .....

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Cancer
Number of words: 913 - Number of pages: 4

.... An increasing incidence has been clearly observable over the past few decades, due in part to improved screening programs, and also to the increasing number of older persons in the population, and also to the large number of tabacco smokers--particularly in women. Some researchers have estimated that if Americans stopped smoking, lung deaths could virtually be eliminated within 20 years. The U.S. government and private organizations spent about $1.2 billion annual for research. With the development of new drugs and treatments, the number of deaths among patients under 30 years of age is .....

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Female Genital Mutilation: Long Term Psychological Effects
Number of words: 2173 - Number of pages: 8

.... to keep the ritual going on. The many reasons given for the practice are bewildering and unfounded in any scientific or medical fact. They fall into four main categories: psycho-sexual, religious, sociological and hygienic. Among the psycho-sexual reasons is a belief that the clitoris is an aggressive organ that threatens the male organ and even endangers babies during delivery. It is believed that if a baby's head touches the mother's clitoris during birth, the child will be born with a low IQ. Hence, a girl who is not circumcised, is considered 'unclean' by local villagers and thus unmarri .....

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Prenatal Diagnosis: Heredity Disorders, Other Biochemical Diseases, And Disfiguring Birth Defects
Number of words: 2121 - Number of pages: 8

.... and strokes.(Mulinsky, 1989). After many years of symptoms, most patients have died in their thirties and forties owing to a lack specific treatment. A biochemical disorder also caused by a missing enzyme is the Lesch- Nyhan syndrome, an extremely unpleasant disorder characterized not only by profound mental retardation and features of brain damage (stiff limbs with peculiar movements), but also self-mutilation, (Jones, 1988). Given good care and attention however, these patients may live on many years in their profoundly retarded state. They often require restraining, tying thei .....

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Studies In Religion Euthanasia - A Moral Issue
Number of words: 1156 - Number of pages: 5

.... basically saying that the medical profession, despite some public opinion, is not infallible, and does make some mistakes. Also, if the sickness is cancer, it may go into remission, and then the person, if they were euthanised, would have died prematurely for no reason. The next argument against the idea of Voluntary Euthanasia is the ambiguity of a valid consent from the terminally ill patient. Many drugs prescribed to these patients usually have a nasty side effect, such as depression, or clouding the patient's vision so that he or she would not be able to make any normal judgments. In the .....

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Creatine
Number of words: 732 - Number of pages: 3

.... It is most highly concentrated in lean red meat. “A half-pound of red meat contains about two grams of ”. (McDonald 78) Your body also produces in very small amounts. is necessary for proper cell functions and reproduction and is one of the main energy stores for muscle. How does work? When somebody is exercising, his or her muscles demand energy. The energy that the muscle gets is called adenosine triphosphate (ATP). As the muscles keep contracting, the ATP is turned into adenosine dephosphate (ADP). ADP causes your muscles to fatigue. Phosphate helps to convert ATP into AD .....

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Cancer
Number of words: 1301 - Number of pages: 5

.... The National Act of 1971 expanded government efforts in research. research and control programs have made definite progress. In 1900, was almost always fatal. I the 1930’s fewer than one of every five patients were saved. Today, doctors successfully treat one of every three people who get . Some experts believe that if all present knowledge were used promptly in every case of at least half of all patients could be saved. The American Society was founded in 1913. The first United States hospital was founded in 1884, in New York City. Which later became the Memorial Hospital in 1889. .....

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Alzheimers Disease
Number of words: 583 - Number of pages: 3

.... capacity. Symptoms usually occur in older adults (although people in their 40s and 5Os may also be affected) and include loss of language skills such as trouble finding words, problems with abstract thinking, poor or decreased judgment, disorientation in place and time, changes in mood or behavior and changes in personality. The overall result is a noticeable decline in personal activities or work performance. Who is affected by Alzheimers Disease? Alzheimers Disease knows no social or economic boundaries and affects men and women almost equally. The disease strikes older persons .....

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