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Term Papers on Health and Medicine

The History Of Medicine
Number of words: 1138 - Number of pages: 5

.... the acts of previous monkeys, the first casts were made of dried mud put directly on wounds. Fire brought not only burns, but cautery . Civilization came to be around 12,000 BC. Diseases were treated if minor with domestic remedies such as diet, herbs, plasters, and massage. Often, if the case was severe, the patient was killed to relieve the community of his burden, or the healer was summoned. Old shaman's techniques were more based on myth and magic. Magic was man's first attempt to understand nature. Defensive magic used fetishes (objects endowed with magical powers), amulets .....

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Abortion
Number of words: 1143 - Number of pages: 5

.... and social realities of her life. Of course, frequently, the man who is responsible for the pregnancy refuses to marry her, and responsibility to provide support. The woman may be forced to become a welfare recipient, become part of this cycle of poverty, and expose herself to the personal humiliation, loss of personal liberty, and inadequate income this entails. The impact of pregnancy is not only restricted to economical and educational areas. Certainly, there is a physical impact as well as the emotional reaction to an unwanted pregnancy. When there is a compelling reason, women .....

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Steroids
Number of words: 695 - Number of pages: 3

.... Later in life the pecks will start to look more like breasts. In women they will be basically taking the hormone they lack to be a man, so their voice deepens, body hair develops. They start to look more like a man. Some studies show that the only reason why athletes use steroids is to help stay injury free, to heal, to make themselves look better and to help in their sports. The amount of testosterone that the body makes is very small amounts. Males have twenty to sixty times the testosterone than females. Large amounts of testosterone are needed three times during a man’s life, .....

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Clostridium Difficile And Psuedomembranous Colitis
Number of words: 698 - Number of pages: 3

.... the elderly and debilitated. It usually occurs from three to ten days after that start of antibiotic therapy, however some cases were noted to start after antibiotic therapy had been discontinued. The antibiotics that cause clostridium difficle to release the toxins that cause psuedomembranous colitis are clindamycin, ampicillian, cephalosporins, pennicillans, erythromycin, sulfamethoxazole, chlorampheniocol, and tetracycline. Psuedomembranous colitis often affects the rectosigmoid section of the colon and occasionally can occur in the proximal segments of the colon. The sign of psuedo .....

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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Number of words: 865 - Number of pages: 4

.... smaller and smaller airways the further they go further into the lungs. All along the breathing passages, tiny protective hairs called cilia help keep the dust and other pollutants from entering your lungs. These airways end in tiny air sacs known as alveoli. The alveoli transfer oxygen from the air you inhale directly into the bloodstream. Chronic bronchitis is one of the major lung diseases that underlie COPD. Chronic bronchitis often develops in people over age 40 who are or used to be moderate to heavy smokers. In chronic bronchitis, the bronchial tubes have been constantly irritated .....

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Physician Assisted Suicide
Number of words: 778 - Number of pages: 3

.... is when the physician administers the death causing drug or agent”(Death and Dying,92). The most recent case is that of The State of Florida v. Charles Hall. “Charles Hall is dying of AIDS and challenged the State of Florida to let him die by a self-administered lethal injection without fear of prosecution”(http://www.rights.org/ deathnet/open.html). On January 31, 1997, a Judge ruled that Charles Hall could take his own life with the aid of a doctor. Senior Judge S. Joseph Davis, brought in from Seminole County, “found that Florida’s strict privacy law and the equal pro .....

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Abortion And The Mentally Handicapped
Number of words: 1004 - Number of pages: 4

.... are forced to give up the child. Your psychiatrist has come to the conclusion that you are not capable of being a responsible parent, but you are, at times, capable of making rational moral decisions. However, because you are not able to make important, rational, moral decisions most of the time your mother can claim that you are not mentally capable of raising a child. Also. We took in to account that the father of this unborn child is unknown. There is no one to help you make this decision, but more importantly, there is not another parental figure to aid in the raising and caring for th .....

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Bronchitis
Number of words: 824 - Number of pages: 3

.... the basic symptoms are a head cold, fever and chills, running nose, aching muscles and possibly back pains. This is soon followed by the obvious persistent cough. At first the cough is dry and racking and eventually becomes phlegmy. The persistent cough is worse at night than during the day, and when the person breathes in smoke and fumes. The main symptoms most recognized in chronic bronchitis is, again, a cough, with sputum, often occurring in paroxysms. Other symptoms in chronic bronchitis are dependant on how much, or how little, emphysema is present. This disorder causes the l .....

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Alzheimer's Disease
Number of words: 2674 - Number of pages: 10

.... of patients, the scope of the problem, and current research. The clinical definition of dementia is "a deterioration in intellectual performance that involves, but is not limited to, a loss in at least 2 of the following areas: language, judgement, memory, visual or depth perception, or judgement interfering with daily activities" (Institute,1996, p.4). The initial cause of AD symptoms is a result of the progressive deterioration of brain cells (neurons) in the cerebral cortex of the brain. This area of the brain, which is the largest and uppermost portion, controls all our though .....

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Abortion
Number of words: 1458 - Number of pages: 6

.... olds. Recently the U.S. rate dropped 6 percent overall but the rate of abortion among girls younger than 15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000. The most popular procedure involved in abortions is the vacuum aspiration which is done during the first trimester (three months or less since the women has become pregnant). A tube is simply inserted through the cervix and the contents of the uterus are vacuumed out. The most commonly used type of second trimester abortion is called dilation and evacuation. Since the fetus has bones, .....

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