Medicine Essays
Posted: March 10th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Depression, Social Issues | Tags: Disorder, Mental Illness | No Comments »
At the core, depression for men and women is the same. Both genders suffer moods swings, lack of motivations and a loss of pleasure. Each undergoes some change in appetite. They can’t sleep and have trouble sleeping and concentrating on the simplest things. However, studies have shown that men and women do show difference in [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine | Tags: Autism, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Disorder | No Comments »
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT is used to teach autistic children or adults with asperger’s syndrome how to manage their emotions. CBT teaches coping skills and deals with mental well being issues such as depression, repetitive thoughts and anxiety. Many people who suffer from autistic spectrum disorder fear working with a psychotherapist. It is difficult [...]
Posted: January 8th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine | Tags: Medical, Medical Ethics, Medical Research, Stem Cells | Comments Off
Stem cells are cells that have not differentiated into a specific type of cell and can become any part of the body that is needed (Stem cells and diseases, 2009). There are three different ways for scientists and doctors to harvest stems cells to use in research and in current treatments. The most commonly used [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine, Social Issues | Tags: ADD, ADHD, Drugs, Legal Drugs, Ritalin | Comments Off
In recent years, more and more kids seem to be on a prescription drug called Ritalin(methylphenidate). This drug is being handed out more and more by doctors as a way of treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a complex neurological impairnment that prevents kids from concentrating. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, it rose [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine, Science & Technology | Tags: Farming, Nervous System | Comments Off
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), better know as Mad cow disease is a relatively new disease. Most sources state that BSE first showed up in Great Britain in 1986 [Dealler p.5] but some say it popped up in 1985 [Greger p.1]. However the official notification was not until 21 June, 1988 [Dealler stats. p.1]. Spongiform encephalopathies [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cancer, Medicine, Science & Technology | Tags: Leukemia | Comments Off
Leukemia strikes all ages and both sexes. In 1995 approximately 20,400 people died from Leukemia. The all time five year survival rate is 38%. This rate has gone to 52% in the mid 1980’s. Approximately 25,700 cases were reported in 1995 alone(American Cancer Society-leukemia, 1995).
Leukemia is a form of cancer in [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Aids, Medicine, Science & Technology | Tags: Ebola, HIV, Virus | Comments Off
A virus is an ultramicroscopic infectious organism that, having no independent metabolic activity, can replicate only within a cell of another host organism. A virus consists of a core of nucleic acid, either RNA or DNA, surrounded by a coating of antigenic protein and sometimes a lipid layer surrounds it as well. [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine, Science & Technology | Tags: Malaria, Mosquitoes, Parasites | Comments Off
Malaria parasites have been with us since the beginning of time, and fossils of mosquitoes up to thirty million years old show that malaria’s vector has existed for just as long. The parasites causing malaria are highly specific, with man as the only host and mosquitoes as the only vector. Every year, 300,000,000 [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine, Science & Technology | Tags: Brain, Hospital, Medical, Transplants | Comments Off
Medical technology has seemed to advance enough so that doctors are able to perform brain transplants. So far this procedure has only been successfully performed on animals, and now doctors hope to perform this procedure on humans. I believe brain transplants should not be performed at all, and especially not on humans because of the [...]
Posted: July 4th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Aids, Medicine, Science & Technology, Social Issues | Tags: HIV, HIV aids, sex, STD, Virus | Comments Off
Like the majority of the American population I have lived in a cloud of ignorance about the HIV and AIDS crisis. I have never know anyone close to me that has been infected with either of the two viruses. So when the option to research something to do with sexuality arouse I felt [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic disorders that cause inflammation or ulceration in the small and large intestines. Most often IBD is classified as ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease but may be referred to as colitis, enteritis, ileitis, and proctitis. Ulcerative colitis causes ulceration and inflammation of the inner lining of a [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cancer, Medicine, Science & Technology | Tags: Chemistry, Nutrition | Comments Off
by: Harry Monell
Vitamin D is the nutrient long known for it’s critical role in the body’s processing of calcium and subsequent maintenance of the bones and teeth. However, studies are revealing more and more evidence supporting the role of vitamin D in protecting the body by significantly cutting the risk for most forms of cancer. [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine, Science & Technology | Tags: Diet, Digestive System, Food | Comments Off
Coeliac disease is a genetic condition that is caused by an inability to digest gluten. Hence the reason that this disease is also known as gluten intolerance. It appears that genetics predispose some people to coeliac disease. For these people, some of the constituents of proteins found in wheat, in gluten and gliadin, become toxic [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine, Science & Technology | Tags: Treatment | Comments Off
By: Paul MacIver
Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the digestive tract. The disease is also called granulomatous enteritis, colitis, regional enteritis, regional ileitis, ileitis, or terminal ileitis and it causes ulcerations of the small and large intestine. The disease can affect the digestive system anywhere from the mouth to the anus, but distinctively [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine, Science & Technology | Tags: Alzheimers, Brain | Comments Off
By: Royane Real
Alzheimer’s disease is a disease that strikes terror into many of us, especially as we get older.
Alzheimer’s is a very serious brain disease that attacks the parts of the brain responsible for the creation of memory and for thinking. The majority of victims are women.
As the disease progresses, more and more parts of [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine, Science & Technology | Tags: Heart Disease | Comments Off
By: Kristy Haugen
The term heart disease is a very broad term. Problems can arise within the heart muscle, arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle, or the valves within the heart that pump blood in the correct direction. Understanding the differences between each disease of the heart can help with the confusing applications of the [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Depression, Social Issues | Tags: Mental Illness, Suicide, Teen Suicide | Comments Off
The purpose of this paper is to explain the causes of teen suicide. This paper will include statistics and some background information on suicide survivors. Also this report will discuss some warning signs of teen suicide.
It is important to take the subject of suicide seriously. It doesn’t seem right that a teenager, who has lived [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cancer, Social Issues | Tags: Cigarette, Cocaine, Smoking, Tobacco | Comments Off
It is clear that businesses have an obligation to inform their customers about their product’s ingredients and dangers. Looking at the case of Rose Cipollone we see that she was a heavy smoker. Her doctor’s had to remove part of her right cancerous lung and informed her that she had to quit smoking. Unfortunately, she [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Depression, Social Issues | Tags: Adolescence, Mental Illness, Suicide, Teen Suicide | Comments Off
Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youths aged 15 [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Depression, Social Issues | Tags: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia | Comments Off
Euthanasia is one of society’s more widely, and hotly debated moral issues of our time. More directly, active euthanasia, which by definition, is; “Doing something, such as administering a lethal drug, or using other means that cause a person’s death.”1 Passive euthanasia, defined as; “Stopping (or not starting) some treatment, which allows a person to [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Aids, Medicine, Social Issues | Tags: HIV aids, STD | Comments Off
Arthur Ashe is an admirable and well known American tennis player who won many championships. He became the first African American male to win the men’s Wimbledon title in 1975. Also, he was on the United States Davis Cup team from 1963 until 1984. Some of his other major accomplishments include helping to form what [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Aids, Social Issues | Tags: Crime, HIV aids, STD | Comments Off
Brief History of AIDS and the Criminalization of Knowingly Transmitting It
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The virus was discoverd independently in France in 1983 and in the United States in 1984. In the United States, it was initially identified in 1981. In 1986, a second virus, now [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Aids, Medicine, Social Issues | Tags: HIV aids, STD | Comments Off
PREFACE
In an extensive article in the Summer-Autumn 1990 issue of “Top Secret”, Prof J. Segal and Dr. L. Segal outline their theory that AIDS is a man-made disease, originating at Pentagon bacteriological warfare labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland. “Top Secret” is the international edition of the German magazine Geheim and is considered by many to [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Aids, Social Issues | Tags: Biological Warfare, HIV aids | Comments Off
The following is a complete verbatim transcription from a recent broadcast of “Network 23″, a program shown on a local Los Angeles Public Access Cable Channel.
Good evening, I’m Michel Kassett. This is Network 23. A couple of weeks ago we had a program on the subject of AIDS, addressing the question of whether AIDS-the AIDS [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Aids, Medicine, Social Issues | Tags: HIV aids, STD | Comments Off
Is the message getting through? We already know enough about AIDS to prevent its spread, but ignorance, complacency, fear and bigotry continue to stop many from taking adequate precautions.
We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from it without resorting to such extremes as mandatory testing, enforced quarantine or total celibacy. [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Aids, Medicine, Social Issues | Tags: HIV aids, STD | Comments Off
“Somewhere among the million children who go to New York’s publicly financed schools is a seven-year-old child suffering from AIDS. A special health and education panel had decided, on the strength of the guidelines issued by the federal Centers for Disease Control, that the child would be no danger to his classmates. Yet, when the [...]
Posted: July 20th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, Medicine, Middle Ages | Tags: Bacteria, Bubonic Plague | Comments Off
The Black Death was one of the most severe plagues in its time. I am going to talk about the Black Death, which is also known as The Black Plague and The Bubonic Plague. The main area I will cover is What the affects of the Black Plague was and how is spread.
The presenting symptoms [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Medicine | Tags: Analyticial, Anatomy, Biology, Blood, Physiology | Comments Off
Blood is a fluid substance that circulates in the arteries and veins of the body. Blood is bright red or scarlet when it has been oxygenated in the lungs and passes into the arteries; it becomes bluish red when it has given up its oxygen to nourish the tissues of the body and is returning [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Depression, Medicine, Science & Technology, Social Issues | Tags: Therapy | Comments Off
After researching electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), I have decided that if a close family member or even myself were severely depressed I would not support the use of ECT. Electroconvulsive therapy consists of an electrical shock, which is used to produce a seizure. Many people experience seizures due to some other type of illness or illnesses, [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cancer, People | Tags: Canada, Canadian History, Cancer Research, Famous Athletes, Osteosarcoma | Comments Off
In Canadian history there are many famous people. In my mind one really stands out among the rest. His name is Terry Fox and he is one of the greatest athlete to run on the face of this planet. Terry discovered he had cancer and then decided to run across Canada. He was a brave [...]
