The Harm Of Illegal Drugs
.... October, 1974, 29 million people have tried marijuana. Out of the 29 million, 12 million of them use it regurlary.”(Carr 56). At high school level one-half of all students have tried marijuana.
The next drug, heroine, is a narcotic drug derived in 1898 in Germany as a pain reliever. It was discovered during the search for a non-addictive morphine substitute. It was not carefully tested. Heroine is a bitter, odorless, white crystalline power. It can be injected into the veins which brings the biggest .....
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Dioxins
.... Some time after the war, many veterans of Vietnam reported rashes, mental conditions, and were found to have cancer. After much research it was found that Agent Orange which contained dioxins, specifically 2,3,7,8, TCDD, was responsible for these medical conditions. After the Agent Orange controversy dioxins lost their space in the spot light for some time until the mid-eighties up to now.
Dioxins are released in four major ways. One is the incineration and combustion of products containing chlo .....
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Asthma
.... asthma symptoms are most severe at night, while we’re lying down our airways narrow as a result of gravity changes. Also our lungs do not clear secretions as well at night, which leads to mucous retention, and that can increase the obstruction to air flow. Furthermore, at night our bodies produce smaller amounts of certain chemical that help to decrease airway spasms and keep airway tubes open. All of these factors add up to a greater chance of symptoms worsening at night.
An asthma attack begins when .....
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Aromatherapy
.... plants. These have been distilled or cold-preserved from roots, bark, flowers, and fruit (what). History shows that aromatherapy has been a vital part of caring for the mind body and soul. Our ancestors have inhaled the sweet aroma, which was used to stimulate the mind. Aromatherapy started when a chemist named Rene-Maurice Gattefosse became interested in healing the body by using all natural essential oils. He came across the technique of using distilled plants and fruits for a wonderful smell. His mind p .....
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Evaluating Methods Of Contraception
.... for the woman who wants to stop child bearing completely. And a contraceptive that works well for someone who has sexual intercourse only occasionally may not be sufficiently effective for those who have sex often.
Various methods of contraception are available in the United States today, including condoms for men and women, spermicidal foams, gels, vaginal films including the diaphragm and cervical caps, the Pill, IUD’s and even awareness methods that rely on periodic abstinence. There are injec .....
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Strep Throat
.... caused by many viruses. In fact, most sore throats are not strep, but are merely sore throats caused by viruses. So, in order to tell if a sore throat is in fact strep, a throat culture is needed.
There are a few symptoms of strep throat. First, a significant fever of about 101 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. Second, pus, or white spots, on either or both the tonsils and throat area when the tonsils have been removed. A third symptom is swollen, tender lymph nodes in the throat area, just below the ea .....
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Alcoholism
.... use of alcohol despite adverse consequences,
and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. (1)
Vanessa Gibson, senior lecturer, University of Northumbria at Newcastle informs alcohol’s main ingredients are ethyl and water, and is made by fermenting fruits and other grains (1).
The chance taken by alcoholics when he or she drinks while on the job can be a deadly choice. Alcoholics will take the chance of putting themselves, along with other co-workers in danger when intoxicated by alcohol. An alc .....
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Health Care Reforms
.... to discover true cost levels is a commercially used management accounting system, activity-based costing. Activities that drive cost levels are identified and then analyzed in terms of their value to the production of the end product. For health services the end product would be the aggregation of applied procedures, tests and therapies related to a particular patient treatment. Accounting systems categorize expenditures in terms of labor, materiel and capital, allocating pools of common expenses and o .....
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Hip Surgery
.... employ methods to lower blood pressure (hypotensive anesthesia) to conserve blood loss, and to assist in obtaining optimal fixation when acrylic bone cement is used.
You will then be taken to the operating room and devices will be placed on you to monitor your heart, blood pressure, breathing and temperature. The anesthesia will be administered, you will be placed on your side with the operative side up, and a slightly curved incision will be made over your hip and thigh. The trochanter with .....
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Prozac: Harmful Or Helpful?
.... immediately prescribe Prozac before exploring the other treatment options. However, Prozac “was associated with more hospitalizations, deaths, or other serious adverse reactions reported to the FDA than any other drug in America” (qtd. in Freundlich 2).
Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company created Prozac in 1974, but it wasn’t approved by the FDA until 1987. The first of the SSRIs, Prozac inhibits or blocks the recapture of the neurotransmitter serotonin by nerve cells (“Prozac” 2). This allows the ser .....
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Attention Deficit Disorder
.... difficult for children to follow along in class. Usually children with A.D.H.D. are more problematic or harder to keep in line, because A.D.H..D. is involving much more hyperactive behavior.
A.D.D. is a genetic disease, and in the case of A..D..D. If a child has it there is a more than good chance the parent has it as well. Fifty percent of parents that have kids with A.D.D. have A.D.D. as well. There are many different symptoms and effects of A..D..D. such as Bad organization this is due to being .....
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What Causes Infectious Diseases To Strike?
.... Ebola liquefies every organ of the body and causes bleeding from every opening. The virus is twice as deadly as AIDS and works one-thousand times as fast, killing victims in three to ten days. Ebola is spread from mostly by means of close contact with an infected person and can also be tranfered through sexual contact. People who are lucky enough to survive the disease usually pose no threat of infection to others.
Marburg is just as deadly as ebola, but is less widespread. Marburg cause .....
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A Guide To Indoor Air Quality
.... Wood Cabinets
22. Unvented Gas Stove
23. Asbestos Pipe Wrap
24. Radon
25. Unvented Clothes Dryer
26. Pesticides
27. Stored Hobby Products
28. Lead-Based Paint
INDOOR AIR QUALITY CONCERNS
All of us face a variety of risks to our health as we go about our day to day lives. Driving in cars, flying in planes, engaging in recreational activities, and being exposed to environmental pollutants all pose varying degrees of risk. Some risks are simply unavoidable. Some we choose to accept .....
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Cholera: Virulence, Origin, And Pandemics
.... with today fall into the latter category. In this case, virulence of the pathogen can, and is, measured by mortality rates. Here, more virulent strains kill more hosts. If mortality rates are very low or not present at all, greater virulence can be expressed as causing more symptoms of illness. One such pathogen is Vibrio cholerae, which causes the disease known as cholera. The subject of this paper will focus on the V. cholerae pathogen and the significance of its presence on Earth. I will exami .....
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Three Important Values In Nursing
.... and physical care one must be able to 'put themselves in the patient's/family's/loved one's shoes'.
In a recent "NurseWeek" article (see bibliography), Deepa Arora discussed the issue of instilling hope in patients with ALS or 'Lou Gehrig's Disease'. This disease, although it is fatal and causes ongoing deterioration of the body's ability to move, leaves the mind completely alert and does not affect intellectual function.
This article includes a quote from Ileane Mindel, RN, home liaison for .....
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