.... and physical care one must be able to 'put themselves in the patient's/family's/loved one's shoes'. In a recent "NurseWeek" article (see bibliography), Deepa Arora discussed the issue of instilling hope in patients with ALS or 'Lou Gehrig's Disease'. This disease, although it is fatal and causes ongoing deterioration of the body's ability to move, leaves the mind completely alert and does not affect intellectual function. This article includes a quote from Ileane Mindel, RN, home liaison for the Les Turner ALS Foundation in Skokie, Ill. "It's not enough just to help ALS patients with t .....

.... pessimistic and narrow-minded. Limbaugh also mentions a few instances in which school boards have denounced educating students on the topic of abstinence. Unfortunately, this has been the case in a minority of regions. It is not, however, taken seriously in the majority of the nation. He also mentions that the effectiveness of condoms can be as low as eighty percent. According to recent studies, this is only the case if the condom has been misused, or is being used after the date stamped on the wrapper. All of Limbaugh’s reasons to end the distribution of condoms reflect poorly t .....

.... panel set up to determine the risks of vaccination did not compare it to those of being unvaccinated (qtd in Miller 9). This means that the research done by the panel, which proved vaccination risks to be 'too small to count', contains many weaknesses. McTaggart links the appearance of learning disabilities, autism, and hyperactivity to the beginning of the mass vaccination programs (1). Thus, vaccination is directly related to many diseases, in which some are still unknown. McTaggart adds that the mumps vaccine has proved to be a direct cause of seizures, meningitis, deafness, and encepha .....

.... And a contraceptive that works well for someone who has sexual intercourse only occasionally may not be sufficiently effective for those who have sex often. Various methods of contraception are available in the United States today, including condoms for men and women, spermicidal foams, gels, vaginal films including the diaphragm and cervical caps, the Pill, IUD’s and even awareness methods that rely on periodic abstinence. There are injections that last for 3 months and implants that last 5 years. There are even types of emergency contraception. The most used birth control i .....

.... track and field (mostly throwers), sprint swimmers, anyone who works out for long periods of time at high intensity. So it won't benefit you if your idea of a work out is getting some food from the kitchen for the movie you are about to watch. As of right now creatine is legal in every level of competition from high school to professional to Olympic. So is it worth taking? If you ask anyone who is taking creatine they will say yes. How bad can it be if it is already found in your body and the food you eat it is just like taking a calcium pill? Why not is what you get from most .....

.... financial data into financial predictions (Wo96). Neural networks utilize a parallel processing structure that has large numbers of processors and many interconnections between them. These processors are much simpler than typical central processing units (He90). In a neural network, each processor is linked to many of its neighbors so that there are many more interconnections than processors. The power of the neural network lies in the tremendous number of interconnections (Za93). ANN's are generating much interest among engineers and scientists. Artificial neural network models .....

.... 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 disorder will effect 40,000 men and women a year, usually between the ages of 20 and 35. Of those diagnosed, twenty percent will have reoccurrence of the di .....

.... for short-term memory. If we study samples of these two section, we would find three irregularities which are not found in normal brain matter. These three are called neurofibrillary tangles, neuritic plagues and granulovacuolar degeneration3. A nerve cell has numerous axons and dendrites coming out of it. A neurofibrillary tangle is when the neuron changes. A number of dendrites are missing and the nucleus is filled with protein filaments resembling steel wool. Although all elderly people has a few of these helix shaped bundles in their brain for they are normal indicators .....

.... 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 elongated, sausage-shaped cells containing many nuclei and clearly display longitudinal and cross striations. Skeletal muscle is supplied with nerves fro .....

.... approximately 1345 to 1361. It would also make small comebacks throughout the next 400 years, but never like it did the first time. It also reached into Africa, China, Russia, and the Scandinavian countries. It was truly a worldwide pandemic. But, it has a secondary effect that not many people are aware of. The colonies of Greenland, settled by the Vikings, were stricken by the plague and they soon disappeared. It is known that these colonies kept in contact with "Vinland", which was near New Foundland, in Canada. The Vikings had already discovered North America! But, alas, with these co .....