Registered Nurses
.... 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 .....
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Addiction: Its Causes And Effects
.... ad dictum. Ad dictum
means "to the dictator". When people were captured and sent into slavery,
they were sent ad dictum. This idea of enslavement is mirrored by the
addict's need to maintain the addiction (. Before we can understand why
addiction is the number one social and health problem in the United States,
a definition of addiction needs to be established (Experience 12). It is
important to remember no one thing can explain addiction. Factors include
personalities, culture, environments, su .....
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The Flu
.... show the publics' knowledge of the flu and the flu shot. Using our
Internet research and the data we gathered from our questionnaire, we
learned some of the myths people generally believe about the flu and the
flu shot. During the course of our research we learned ways to educate the
public to eliminate those beliefs.
We have gathered seven resources with information pertaining to the
flu and the flu shot. Two articles came from journals of medicine called
The Journal of the American Medical Ass .....
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Lupus
.... type of Lupus is, Systemic
Lupus Erythematosus. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is usually more severe
than Discoid Lupus. Systemic Lupus can affect almost every organ in the
body. Most of the time or some of the times Discoid lupus will progress
into systemic Lupus. For some people, it only the joints and skin. In
others, the joints, blood, kidneys, lungs or other organs or tissues can be
affected. Last of all, Drug-induced Lupus, which occurs after taking some
certain prescribed drugs. Many of .....
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The Need For Sleep
.... this stage the hardest to wake from. After an
hour or so, you shift into a highly active stage characterized by rapid eye
movements, hence the name REM sleep. Suddenly your brain waves are almost
the same as if you were awake. You're in the dreaming stage, which occurs
several times across the course of the night.
Now, what happens when we're deprived of the restful sleep we need?
We're less alert and attentive, more inclined to irritability and other
mood problems. These emotional changes can .....
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The History Of Birth Control
.... that have been used over the years and currently
include pesssaries, plants, condoms, and birth control pills. While there
have been others it is best that we not discuss them here(trust me you
don't want to know).
Pessaries are vaginal suppositories. Used from ancient times to the
present, they can be a fairly effective form of birth control. In ancient
times, pessaries often contained acacia gum, which, while having some
possible spermacidal effect, very likely sealed up the cervix, making it
impossib .....
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Needle Exchange Programs
.... programs operate on the principle of "a one
for one exchange" (Wren 2).The user receives one clean needle for every
used needle he/she brings. The vast majority of needle exchange sites are
storefronts, street exchanges by outreach workers, and scheduled mobile van
stops at designated streets such as AHOPE (Addicts Health Opportunity and
Exchange located in Boston). In addition to providing needles, the programs
distribute alcohol swabs, medicative ointments, vials of bleach,
instructions in the use o .....
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Culture From Cranium
.... from the cultural context from which it came, was surprisingly
successful. The Oneida Community, in Oneida, New York was a unique
religious communist society in the mid-nineteenth century. The community
was based on the radical religious beliefs, and biblical interpretations of
John Humphrey Noyes.
Noyes grew up in a well to do household in Vermont. He Graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1830 with high honors. Up to that point he had
been cynically agnostic. But in 1831 he attended a revival with his mot .....
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Attention Deficit Disorder
.... system, which affects approximately three to
six percent of the child population in the United States(Merrow). Its most
defining symptoms include distractibility, impulsivity, and
restlessness(Hallowell). "A.D.D. is a breakdown of the filter systems of
the brain," according to Dr. Edward Hallowell, a world-renowned expert on
A.D.D. and author of several best-selling books on the subject. A.D.D. is
not an indicator of low intelligence, nor is it a learning disability. The
A.D.D. brain cannot filter the .....
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Treating Diabetes With Transplanted Cells
.... had the scientist encouraged. Their patients were
given 400 thousand islets, but they did not produce enough insulin to
enable the patients to stop taking injections. In 1990, 145 patients had
received islet transplants. In most patients the islets had not been able
to control blood sugar levels or had lost some of their activity in the
three years. The islets had been performing at maximum capacity and had
become exhausted. They decided that is enough islets are supplied they
should reverse diabetes .....
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The Ebola Virus
.... then. The first major outbreak of the ebola virus was in
1976, in Zaire and in Sudan. "Over 500 cases were reported, with mortality
rates of 88% in Zaire and 53% in Sudan"1 The cause of these outbreaks still
remain unknown. No association with monkeys could be attributed to either
of the outbreaks. The only other case besides in Marburg that Ebola seemed
to be associated with monkeys was a filovirus (family of viruses containing
Ebola) isolated from cynomolgus monkeys from the Philippines. This Virus
ca .....
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Creatine
.... it benefits those people who are
serious about training body builders, track and field (mostly throwers),
sprint swimmers, anyone who works out for long periods of time at high
intensity. So it won't benefit you if your idea of a work out is getting
some food from the kitchen for the movie you are about to watch.
As of right now creatine is legal in every level of competition
from high school to professional to Olympic. So is it worth taking? If
you ask anyone who is taking creatine they will sa .....
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Marfans Syndrome
.... valve prolapse). This can
lead to leakage of the mitral valve or irregular heart rhythm. In addition,
the aorta, the main artery carrying blood away from the heart, is generally
wider and more fragile in patients with the Marfan syndrome. This widening
is progressive and can cause leakage of the aortic valve or tears
(dissection) in the aorta wall. When the aorta becomes greatly widened, or
tears, surgery is necessary.
Skeletal problems common in people with the Marfan syndrome include
curvat .....
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Amico Acids - The Building Blocks Of Life
.... peptides, polypeptides, and a
combination of amino acids formed protein molecules. The building block
necessary for life. And that you had this inorganic matter somehow become
living matter. Dr Herald Bloom points out, he says, "The problem is how do
we know, that if there arose a peptide, a combination of amino acids, that
the second peptide would not arise 5 thousand years later 10 thousand miles
away. How would it come together with hundreds of combinations even to
form the simplest protein molec .....
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Being A Virologist
.... and could not find that much information on exactly
how virologists find cures and vaccines. But I know that they need
antibodies to make these cures. And there are two primary ways of making
these antibodies. One, they can take them from patient zero. Patient
zero would be where the virus originated from.
Two, they could inject into an animal like a horse. If the animal,
horse creates antibodies to fight off the virus, we take some of its blood.
And from the plasma we extract the antibodies. Her .....
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