What Is PMS?
.... other have major effects.
Who Experiences PMS?
It said in some evaluations that approximately 10 percent of women that are menstruating experience extreme premenstrual symptoms. PMS can happen at any time in a menstruating woman's life. It usually appears in women in their early twenties through thirties.
*PMS is reported by mostly women who-
-have had children
-had pregnancy complications (such as toxemia)
-report minor pain and cramping with periods
-eat high in sugar or salt
-don't exerc .....
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Schizophrenia
.... like other psychopathologies has many documented, and several uncertain causes. Some scientists have evidence that pregnant mothers have experienced an immune reaction that presents dangers to the unborn child. Schizophrenia is a disorder where the body’s immune system attacks itself. Schizophrenia is not present at birth but develops during the adolescence period or young adulthood. Schizophrenia is a biological brain disease affecting thinking, perception, mood, and behavior. .....
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Rural Healthcare
.... roads, which can be impassable in winter or when it rains can hinder people receiving medical services. Winstead-Fry, Tiffany, and Shippee-Rice (1992) stated that low incomes and high poverty rates are suffered by great amounts of the rural population, making health care insurance a relative luxury. Because of this, many ailments and injuries tend to go untreated.
Another problem is the lack of physicians willing to work in rural areas. The Hill-Burton Act of 1946 represented a major effort by the fed .....
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Hemophilia
.... body growth. This results in swelling of the affected joint and extreme pain when the joint or muscle is moved.
It is reported that one in ten thousand males get hemophilia A. It has been calculated that worldwide there are approximately 350,000 people with severe or moderate hemophilia, although hemophilia B is 5 times less common that hemophilia A. All races, religions, and economic groups are affected by hemophilia.
Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder which is inherited genetically. Due to .....
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Smoking On Campus
.... at the expense of others?” I interviewed several nonsmoking students and asked their opinion on the subject; Maria Malaka, a first year student at SPJC stated, “I hate when people smoke near me, it makes me sick!”. Just about every nonsmoker I asked had close to the same opinion. Of the 24 students I interviewed 5 were smokers. Why should so many of us have to suffer for a small percent of students to reap the benefits? The administrators know the effects of smoking, I guess they’re just not conce .....
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Why Exercise Is Important
.... reasons for improving our physical fitness. But I think the one thing we can all come to ground on is that exercising and eating right is an essential imperative for our individual well being. Not because we want to follow society's footsteps, but because it's the right thing to do.
This guide will address the reasons of why exercising is a physical imperative in the areas of diet, aerobic exercise, and weight training. With the expert advice from numerous research institutes nationwide, as well as fi .....
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Diabetes
.... Americans. This disease is hereditary, but is usually triggered by a viral infection. Some of the symptoms of type 1 are urgent thirst, excessive urination, weight loss, fatigue, and irritability. Because it is inherited, this type can not be prevented.
The second type of diabetes is type 2 diabetes, or "non-insulin dependent" diabetes. In this type, insulin is produced by the pancreas but is ineffective. This type usually affects obese middle-aged and older people and can affect nearly all races. .....
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Mad Cow's Disease And Mad Man
.... years ago, with a disease known as "Scrapie". Scrapie is a naturally occurring disease of sheep found in many parts of the world and is one kind of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) that affects a sheep's nervous system. Scrapie's main target organ is the brain but may infect other tissues such as the spinal cord, the lymphatic system, the intestines and eyes. What does sheep have to do with not being able to eat a steak you ask? In 1986, British scientist discovered Bovine Spongiform Enc .....
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Cocaine And Its Dangers
.... dust, gold dust, lady snow and white." "Cocaine is very expensive and so dealers push up their profits by mixing it with anything else that is white and powdery." "In the mid nineteenth century, cocaine is used in eye, ear and throat surgery." "Now, they have been largely replaced by synthetic and local anesthetics such as lidocaine."
There are different ways of taking cocaine, because it is in a powdery form. "The most popular ways to take cocaine is snorting into nostrils or taking it orally." .....
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Female Genital Mutilation
.... piercing or incising of the clitoris and/or labia; stretching of the clitoris and/or labia; cauterization by burning of the clitoris and surrounding tissue.
There are many health risks and complications associated with these operations such as; hemorrhage, shock, painful scars, keloid formation, clitoral cysts, chronic urinary infection, chronic pelvic infections, painful menstruation, severe pain during intercourse, sterility, kidney stones, sexual dysfunction, depression and complications during chi .....
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Hypochondria
.... Being sick is also a way of agreeing to be helpless. In fact, hypochondria is the perfect solution to this common predicament, for in being ill-either as a child,wife,husband, employee, or in-law- the vulnerable person simultaneously obtains the protection and attention he craves,excuses his excessive dependence, and binds his protector to him(who could leave someone who was seriously ill?).
Psychiatrists today classify hypochondria as one of a type of behaviors collectively known as the som .....
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Health Experience
.... with it everyday. Women are more prone for health care just for the single reason of being a woman. So do you think that the system would give women a break? Of course not, "Because women use the system more often, we should pay higher insurance premiums." "’Poor women and women of color are liabilities, while insured women are ‘markets’ and ‘billable’ resources." "doctors accuse ‘poor’ women of not taking proper care of ourselves or our children, or they see drug use and depression in ‘poor’ f .....
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Tourette's Disorder
.... evidence links TS with multiple tics. Transient tics of childhood are best defined in retrospect. At times it may be difficult to distinguish children with extreme attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from TS. Many ADHD children, on close examination, have a few phonic or motor tics, grimace, or produce noises similar to those of TS. Since at least half of the TS patients also have attention deficits and hyperactivity as children, a physician may well be confused. However, the treating d .....
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Anxiety
.... Sometimes I would have to leave the store or I’d choose times to shop when there were not as many people there.” Problems such as this are the serious effects anxiety can have on you. It becomes serious when you have to start changing your lifestyle to avoid your anxieties. Anxiety can take the form of many situations. For example. another woman overheard at her work that someone had a bad odor. The woman assumed it was her, and became paranoid about her odor. She was afraid to go out in public, an d .....
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Exotic Diseases And The Treat To Humanity
.... from starting, but not everyone agrees with the terms. Thus, these prevention plans for some diseases fail. Humanity is faced with many dangers of a doomsday in the next millennium, but the one that seems the most likely to happen is a world epidemic.
Human activities and behavior often help increases the risk of a world epidemic. In such activities like increased travel, shipments of resources and wild animals increase the possibility of catching a deadly virus and starting to spread an epidemic. H .....
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