Epidemiology Of Varsity Sports
.... Track and Field, Men's Soccer, and
Wrestling, and Women's Field Hockey.
BASKETBALL
The study of the nature and extent of athletic injuries Occuring in
Women's Basketball by Hanes and Murray in 1982 found an injury rate of 41.7 per
100 players. Of these injuries 56.9% were ankle sprains, 24.1% were muscle
strains. 76.2% of the sprains and strains occurred to the lower extremities.
Injured fingers ( which were the only upper extremity injuries) accounted for
14.3% of the injuries and 4.8% of .....
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Ethical Problem: Drinking Alcohol
.... This would be the fifth stage of moral functioning,
Legality. If you think at this stage, you will follow the rules and laws all
the time.
The law, however, did not prevent many of my friends from drinking nor did
it do much in the way of stopping them after they had started. The law was too
easy to avoid so getting caught by the cops was rarely a matter of great concern.
Besides, even when one of my friends would get caught, they were usually
released to their parents with nothing more th .....
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Vaccine
.... Washington, Dr Russell Alexander, points out that the 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 .....
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Flash Memory
.... person carefully avoids any confrontation
what so ever with any evidence that might challenge the memory. So this
syndrome takes on a life of its own, keeping itself to be alone and resistant
to correction. The person may become so focused on the memory that he or she
may be effectively distracted from coping with real problems in his or her life.
There are many models which try to explain how memory works.
Nevertheless, we do not know exactly how memory works. One of the most
questionable models of m .....
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Ovarian Cancer
.... remains localized
within the peritoneal cavity. Tumor development has been associated with
aberrant, dysfunctional expression and/or mutation of various genes. This can
include oncogene overexpression, amplification or mutation, aberrant tumor
suppressor expression or mutation. Also, subversion of host antitumor immune
responses may play a role in the pathogenesis of cancer (Sharp, 77).
Ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma was first described by Peham in 1899
as "hypernephroma of the ovary" be .....
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Healing Health Care
.... 30 percent faster that of other goods, placing far
out of the financial reach of the working class of this nation. It is time to
consider a true national health-care system, in order to insure that everyone,
not just the wealthy, can enjoy good health. As it stands, America is the only
civilized country where access to basic health care depends on where one works
and how much one is paid. For many well insured people there is debate about our
nationšs stance on the separation between the individual and t .....
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Health
.... of
age-related diseases. They are also concerned with describing the effects of
health on behavior and describing the effects of behavior on health. The goals
of these specialists are: prevention of diseases, preservation of health,
and improved quality of health for those suffering from disability and disease.
What does it mean to be healthy? Health is a state of complete physical
, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease, illness
or infirmity. It is important to dist .....
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The Ear And Hearing Loss
.... chamber
called the cochlea. The outer and middle ears purposes are only to receive and
amplify sound. Those parts ofd the ear are only present in amphibians and
mammals, but the inner ear is present in all vertebrates.
The ear can hear in several different ways. They are volume, pitch, and
tone. Pitch is related to the frequency of the sound wave. The volume depends
on the amplitude or intensity of the sound wave. The greater the frequency, the
higher the pitch. Humans can hear about 30 and 20,00 .....
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Heart Attacks
.... of hormones in the body. These hormones raise the blood pressure.
Consequently, a person's heart rate increases 15 to 25 beats per minute.
Nicotine also causes the blood vessels to contract. People who smoke have a
harder time keeping their hands and feet warm because their blood does not
circulate as well as it does in non-smokers. When the heart rate increases and
the blood vessels remain constricted for an extended period of time, ten or more
years, arteries begin to close up. When an arter .....
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Hemispheres Of The Brain
.... by noticing brain damage to a particular area
of the brain that was damaged. Such observations were first recorded some 5,000
years ago (Myers,1995). The most popular case is that of Phineas Gage a
railroad worker that had severe frontal lobe damage. This happened when a rail
road spike was shot through his head by a piece of dynamite. Miraculously he
lived through the experience, but with a severe change in his personality. From
this physiologists learned that personality was largely controlled fr .....
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Hemophilia
.... are able to be affected
by hemophilia. Inheritance is controlled by a recessive sex-linked factor
carried by the mother on the X chromosome. There is a fifty percent chance that
the sons of a female carrier will have hemophilia. There also is a fifty
percent chance that the daughters of a female carrier will be carriers of
hemophilia. In addition, all daughters of men with hemophilia are carriers, but
his sons are unaffected. Men cannot transmit hemophilia, and female carriers
are free of the disease .....
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Hepatitis
.... The names of the viruses are in
alphabetical order corresponding to their discovery. There is also a non-viral
Hepatitis which is caused by substance. One rumor that has spread about
hepatitis is that a person can only contract Hepatitis if associated with HIV or
AIDS. This is not true! Any one can become infected with Hepatitis.
Unfortunately this is about all most people know of Hepatitis. They need to
know the full horror of which the virus is capable.
The first of the Hepatitis viral infection .....
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AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
.... having a profound impact on many aspects of
medicine and health care. The U.S. Public Health Service estimates that in 1993,
the lifetime cost of treating a person with AIDS from infection to death is
approximately $119,000. Outpatient care, including medication, visits to doctors,
home health aids, and long-term care, accounted for approximately 32 percent of
the total cost. Persons exposed to HIV may have difficulty in obtaining adequate
health-insurance coverage. Yearly AZT expenses can average approxi .....
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HIV
.... seventies. It was a common disease between gay males and intravenous
drug abusers. Now it is well known that the viruses have been transmitted
through sexually, occasionally through blood and organ transplants.
The acronym HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, where as the
acronym AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. When someone has
contracted the HIV virus in almost all cases it produces the AIDS virus.
Apparently there has been a controversy that HIV really isn't the cau .....
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Hospice
.... shortly.
Major Functions of the Department:
Hospice is a very unique department because it truly looks at the "big picture"
and treats a spectrum of patient needs equally. Special attention is given to:
Physical needs - this is the first and foremost function. Within hospice you
are dealing with a patient that has been given a diagnosis of having 6 months or
less to live. For many patients, relieving pain through medication is an
important part of hospice care. I have provided you with a list of .....
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