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Sickle Cell Anemia
Number of words: 190 - Number of pages: 1.... skin, short of breath, easily
tired, and whites of eyes turn yellow.
Ethnic or special groups affected with Sickle Cell Anemia are mostly
blacks, and Hispanics of Caribbean ancestry. The disease also affects some
people of Arabian, Greek, Maltese, Sicilian, Sardinian, Turkish, and Southern
Asian ancestry.
How transmitted type of gene or chromosomes that causes the disease.
Sickle Cell Anemia is a sex linked gene. One way somebody could get this
disease is if both parents are a carrier for Sickle Cell Anemia. There is one
in four chance that a baby will have the disease.
How the dise .....
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Argument Against Euthanasia
Number of words: 3097 - Number of pages: 12.... relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die.
Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play
god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor
should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.
The issue of euthanasia is having a tremendous impact on medicine
in the United States today. It was only in the nineteenth century that the
word came to be used in the sense of speeding up the process of dying and
the destruction of so-called useless lives. Today it is defined as the
deliberate ending of life of a pe .....
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The Six Essential Nutrients
Number of words: 561 - Number of pages: 3.... dairy products, as well as cooking oils.
Proteins: your body has many uses for proteins. Enzymes, antibodies, many hormones, and chemicals that help the blood to clot are proteins. Proteins are part of muscles and many cell structures, including the cell membrane.
Sources of proteins in the diet include meats, dried beans, whole grains eggs, and dairy products.
Minerals and vitamins: a mineral is an inorganic substance that serves as a building materials or takes part in chemical reactions in the body. Minerals make up about four percent of your total body weight. Most of the m .....
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Therapeutic Touch : Its Effectiveness On Surgical Incision Site Pain
Number of words: 2750 - Number of pages: 10.... for decreasing a patients surgical site pain within the first
forty-eight hours after surgery?". The independent variable is therapeutic
touch. The dependant variable is decreasing surgical site pain. The population
to be studied will be patients on a thirty bed medical-surgical floor of a Lake
Charles hospital. Fifty surgical patients will be studied over a four week
period. The patients will be randomly selected to avoid any bias by the
researcher.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROBLEM
"... therapeutic touch is a nursing intervention that has the potential
for eliciting .....
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Illness
Number of words: 423 - Number of pages: 2.... teacher that gave it to you.
Of course people will say that I could have written a good three page
essay in the time that it took me to scribble this down, but I believe this is
untrue. As this paper took no concentration and just my thoughts coming down on
paper. If a real essay would to come to me now that is what would be on the
paper. But as you see it is not a true essay.
Honesty is always the best answer right? Why that is what I think.
Actually Miss Howard this Paper was just something to get done with and get a
grade so that I may re-write when I am feeling more myself and can .....
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Abortion
Number of words: 927 - Number of pages: 4.... placental tissue is left in the uterus. This method can be used up to the eighth week of pregnancy.
The second most common method is called saline injection or salt poisoning and is used after sixteen weeks or pregnancy. The doctor inserts a long needle through the mother’s abdomen and injects a saline solution into the sac of amnionic fluid surrounding the fetus. The fetus is poisened by swallowing the salt and it’s skin completly burned away. It takes about an hour to kill the fetus. After the child dies, the mother goes into labor and expels the dead baby. Saline injections have .....
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Sleep Apnea
Number of words: 1272 - Number of pages: 5.... For instances, in one lab animal
the researcher cut through the axis of the brain at one level, which would
prevented the animal from awakening; showing that brain structures below the
level of the cut were responsible for awakening the lab animal.
The American Sleep Disorders Association (ASDA), Association for the
Psychophysiological Study of Sleep (APSS), Association of Sleep Disorder Centers
(ASDC), and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has studied sleep and
sleep disorders since the early 1970's. Out of all the sleep disorders
currently being studied, sleep apnea has gain w .....
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Drug Dependence
Number of words: 402 - Number of pages: 2.... not respond in a predictable way to the drug. A person
who has a so-called idiosyncratic response to a particular sedative, for example,
may become excited rather than relaxed. Others may be hypersensitive, or
extremely sensitive, to certain drugs, suffering reactions that resemble
allergies.
A patient may also acquire a tolerance for a certain drug. This means that
ever-larger doses are necessary to produce the desired therapeutic effect.
Tolerance may lead to habituation, in which the person becomes so dependent upon
the drug that he or she becomes addicted to it. Addiction causes severe .....
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Insulin-Dependent Diabetes
Number of words: 1786 - Number of pages: 7.... stomach). In the person with diabetes, there is
a malfunction in the production of insulin. There are two main types
of diabetes: Type I or Insulin-Dependent and Type II or Noninsulin-
Dependent.
The insulin-dependent type of diabetes generally has onset during
childhood or adolescence, though it can occur at any age. Because
the pancreas supplies little or no insulin in this disease, daily
injections of the hormone and a controlled diet are necessary to
regulate blood sugar levels. Insulin is generally effective in
preventing glucose buildup, .....
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Autism
Number of words: 422 - Number of pages: 2.... and Osterwell 7). The symptoms of can be consolidated into five major symptoms. The first symptom is a lack of responsiveness to other people, objects, and events. Disturbance of speech, language, perception, and nonverbal communication is the second major symptom. The third symptom of consists of a bizarre response to the environment such as a change in peculiar interest to animate and inanimate objects. The fourth symptom is the delay of response to sensory stimuli. The fifth and final major symptom of is the interruption of the developmental rates and/or sequence.
Autistic beh .....
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