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Essays on Health and Medicine
Title: Unconventional Medicines
Details: Words: 2512, Pages: 10... and used often in sports.
Imagery is a type of therapy in which the patient imagines that they are being healed, and before long, they will feel better. For example, if a patient had a bad sunburn on their back, they could imagine that a block of ice was melting inside their neck and dripping down the back. Within minutes, the pain should be gone. Imagery can also include sounds, tastes, and smells. (Nash,1996:45) The list of alternative therapies goes on and on.
For every disease known to mankind, there is probably a complementary alternative medicine to counter it. Most alternative medicines are unheard of in North America, where conventional medicine ...
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Title: Brain Function
Details: Words: 573, Pages: 3... different ways of looking the world. The left brain controls the right side of the body, even the eye what you see from the right eye goes to left brain. But this function is reversed for left-handed people. Left brain mostly focus on the logical analytical, judgment and verbal. The right side of the brain control the left side of the body, this brain focus more on creative, intuitive, it is concerned more with the visual and emotional side of the life.
When reading left brain is sensibly making connection and analyzing the meaning of the world, the syntax and other complex relation ships while putting it into language that can understand to human, meanwhile ...
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Title: The Trials Of Alcohol
Details: Words: 588, Pages: 3... nothing for me but hinder my ability to perform properly, clog my brain, and take my money. By drinking, all of my senses are whittled down next to nothing. When that happens, I am not able to do anything, especially study and that’s what I am at college for. Another thing that alcohol will do to me is it will subject me too memory loss. I think its common sense that after a night of drinking it is very hard to remember what you did or what you didn’t do. Alcohol also has the ability to take my money and make me poor. If I were to allow myself to be buying alcohol on a steady basis, it will become a great way for me to lose all my money as my life matures ...
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Title: Should Abortion Be Supported?
Details: Words: 914, Pages: 4... would be fewer teenage pregnancies, illegitimate babies, and consequently no need for abortion clinics in our country. However, some special cases might still existed. For instance, a fetus may have a high chance of being born mentally ill, with a handicap, blind, or AIDS. In such cases, according to utilitarianism by which to produce the greatest happiness to the greatest number, then people should have the right to have abortion because it will cause both emotional and economical burden to the parents. Because of the new invention and technology, we are able to find out the worse fetus existing by blood test before getting married even though it isn't a hun ...
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Title: No-Calorie Powder May Substitute For Food's Fat
Details: Words: 383, Pages: 2... another fat substitute, olestra, is different.
Olestra can cause gastrointestinal distress and take vitamins and carotenoids
out of the body. The new substitute does not have those affects. Inglett says
that you should eat more of the kind of fibers that make up Z-Trim to reduce
the chances of getting intestinal disorders.
But there are some people who argue with Inglett's theory on his new
substitute. "I wouldn't expect Z-Trim to have the same kinds of problems as
olestra," says Margo Wootan, a senior scientist at the Center for Science in the
Public Interest in Washington, D.C. "Fiber is already found in our diet, while
olestra is a synthetic chemical. Ther ...
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Title: Autism
Details: Words: 311, Pages: 2... disorder
also have mental retardation or other problems with their brain function or
structure.
Recent studies estimate that as many as 14 children out of 10,000 may
have autism or a related condition. About 125,000 Americans are affected by
these disorders, and nearly 4,000 families across the country have two or more
children with autism. Three times as many boys as girls have autism.
Researchers are still unsure about what causes autism. Several studies
suggest that autistic disorder might be caused by a combination of biological
factors, including exposure to a virus before birth, a problem with the immune
system, or genetics.
Scientists also have id ...
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Title: Malpractice Or Poor Judgement?
Details: Words: 946, Pages: 4... For instance, a doctor who would have had to pay Rs. 125 annually
now has to pay up to Rs. 1500. These costs will only be passed along to the
patients in the long run, and the condition is only going to worsen. Take for
example the United States, where surgeons annually pay an average of $75,000 on
insurance premiums. On top of these premiums, doctors who practice very
defensively add as much as $21 billion US to the health care bill every year.
Twenty percent of the tests prescribed by doctors were not necessary, but they
are the result of defensive practising by doctors who do not want to be held
liable.
This condition, already appearing in India, coul ...
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Title: The Safety Of Blood
Details: Words: 1528, Pages: 6... 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.
Another, and more popularly held connotation of "safe," is the probability of
no ...
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Title: Life Or Death: Who Chooses?
Details: Words: 4437, Pages: 17... Century
approach to life in the last third of the 20th Century. But who in reality
is using arguments of a bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of
biological science - Make no Mistake - that from the moment of conception,
a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their
knowledge, can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of
science, doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human
being is created. A new human being who carries genes in its cells that
make that human being uniquely different from any and other human being and
yet, undeniably a member, as we all are, of ...
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Title: Registered Nurses
Details: Words: 599, Pages: 3... nights, weekends and holidays.
They may also be on-call. In addition, they face back injury when moving
patients, shocks from electrical equipment, and hazards from compressed
gases.
Nursing education includes classroom instruction and supervised
experience in hospitals and other health facilities. Students take courses
in anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, nutrition, psychology and
other behavioral sciences and nursing. They also must take liberal arts
classes. In all states, students must graduate from a nursing program and
pass a national licensing examination to obtain a nursing license.
Licenses must be renewed periodically; some stat ...
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