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- 13341: Skin Cancer
- ... induce more tumors in the treatment area". "Following treatment for basal cell carcinoma, the patient should be clinically examined every six months for five years." Thereafter, the patient should be examined for recurrent tumor or new primary tumors at yearly intervals. It has been prospectively found that 36% of patients who develop a basal cell carcinoma will develop a second primary basal cell carcinoma within the next five years. Early diagnosis ... Works Cited (1) Abide, JM, Nahai F, Bennett RG. The Meaning of Surgical Margins: Plastic and reconstructive Surgery. : 492-497, 1984. (2) Dabski K, Helm F. Tropical Chemotherapy: Schwartz RA: Skin Cancer: Recognition and Management. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1988, pp 378-389. (3) Elson, Melvin. Internet Reference. "http://www.colombia.net/consumer/datafile/skincanc.html. (4) Internet Reference. "http://maui.net/~southsky/introto.html (5) Jablonski, Francis. Personal Interview ... 6) Lippman SM, Shimm DS, Meyskens FL: Nonsurgical treatments for skin cancer: retinoids and alpha-interferon. Journal of Dermatological Surgery and Oncology: 862-869, 1988. (7) Preston DS, Stern RS: Nonmelanoma cancers of the skin. New England Journal of Medicine 327(23): 1649-1662, 1992. (8) Thomas RM, Amonette RA: Mohs micrographic surgery. American Family Physician/GP 37(3): 135-142, 1988.
- 13342: Breast Feeding Infants
- ... suggested that breast-fed infants perform better in school and score higher on standardized math and reading skills. Their study was based on a review of more than 1,000 children who were born in New Zealand in 1977 and followed them through age 18. They found that the longer the infants were breast-fed the higher they scored. Fergusson and John (1998) concluded that breast-feeding is associated with small ... A.; Larson, Sandra K., Porges, Stephen (1987). Behavioral and Heart Rate Pattern Differences Between Breast-Fed and Bottle-Fed Neonates. Developmental Psychology, vol. 23, 467-74 2. Gerard, Alice (1970) Please Breast-Feed Your Baby. New American Library 3. Herber, Ratner M.D. (1958/1963) The Womanly Art of Breast Feeding. Le Leche League International, Franklin Park, Illinois 4. Johnson, Dale L.; Swank, Paul R.; Howie, Virgil M. (1996). BreastFeeding and Children's Intelligence. Psychological Reports, vol. 79, 1179-85 5. Pryor, Karen (1973) Nursing Your Baby. Harper and Row Publishers, New York 6. Breast-Fed Brains (link to increased childhood intelligence; research by Alan Lucas). Discover, vol. 13, July 1992, 14-15 7. http://www.4woman.org/nwhic/News/Dec98/31Dec98.htm, 4/02/99 ...
- 13343: Is Ritalin Over Prescribed?
- ... followed and doctors prescribe Ritalin to every child that walks through the door (Silver 3). The rate of Ritalin use in the United States is at lease five times higher than the rest of the world, with nearly three million children using it (Cooter 305). The reason for this is quite simple. Almost half the pediatricians surveyed for a recent report in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine said they ... 312. Morrison, M. Personal interview with Kelly Ims and Gregg Hansen.7 April 1999. Silver,S.M. (1999 March). Rushing to Ritalin? [online]. Available: http://www.parentline.com/ritalin/ Snyderman, Nancy. (1999 March). "Ritalin: The New Teen High" [online]. Available: http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/healthchech/ritalin/ Tennant, Christopher. (March 1999). The Ritalin Racket [online]. Available: http://www.student.com/news/
- 13344: Schizophrenia
- ... become overloaded with stress, information, and stimulation. When this happens they lose their ability to cope with the anxiety which accompanies these stressors. Instead of dealing with their problems they seek peace in their own world. For example, it is common for individuals to return to "happy times" in their life such as infancy and they begin to act like a child. Scientists have asked if there is a particular nationality ... go through periods of psychosis and phases of recovery. An optimistic fact about the disease is people tend to "grow out of it" in their mid-life. BIBLIOGRAPHY Mayer, Robert M.D. Satan's Children, New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1991 Wallis, Claudia and James Wellsworth, "Awakenings". Time July 7, 1992, pp 36-44. "Schizophrenia, Youth's Greatest Disabler", Schizo Society of N.S., 1988 Smith, Douglas W. Schizophrenia, Toronto ...
- 13345: Teenage Stress
- ... flavor, challenge and opportunity to life. Stress can pump you up, give you energy, or supply that zest for living. Stress is an unavoidable part of life. The challenges caused by stress help to develop new skills and behavior patterns. The problems occur; however, when stress becomes excessive. It can become destructive and can turn into distress. Too much stress on your mind and body can make you feel miserable, worried ... could be problems at school, pressure from your teachers, pressure from your friends, or pressure from your parents to do well. Teenagers may also suffer from the high competition for jobs out in the real world. There is a sense of the feeling there are no jobs out there that are right for the individual teenager. Financial pressures will start to build up around this time. Part time work is scarce ...
- 13346: A Report On The Fundamentals Of Dyslexia
- ... were very successful and influential in their life. In conclusion I have found that children are a real threat to this disorder, especially in Australia. We may not have the highest illiteracy rate in the world but the children still need all the language and speech classes that they can fit in their schedule. Children usually find the ability to read very boring and unimportant. What we need to be teaching them is how much the skilled reader is important to the world around them and that they cannot do many things without being able to read. They also need to learn that they should treasure the fact that they can read, because the children of the world with dyslexia are much worse off than they are. Dyslexiais a very serious problem and needs to be researched further.
- 13347: Tobacco: Opposing Viewpoints
- ... policies, some less strict. In Wisconsin and Nebraska, possession of tobacco was illegal. All states banned the sale of tobacco to children. Despite the prohibitions placed on tobacco in the eighteen nineties, by the first World War, negativity towards tobacco began to fade. The lack of scientific evidence that smoking was harmful at the beginning of the century, and the war effort increased the demand for cigarettes. People only suspected the ... rights of others. How many times have you been traveling down the road to see the person in front of you flick a lit cigarette out of the window? Lit cigarettes can cause automobile explosions. New York school commissioner Charles Hubble gave the following address: Many and many a bright lad has had his will power weakened, his moral principle sapped, his nervous system wrecked, and his whole life spoiled before ...
- 13348: Mad Cow's Disease and Mad Man
- ... scenario if man does not change its' destructive ways. It all started 200 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 ... 5 to 30 years so the ten cases were thought to have been infected due to BSE being present in food before 1989, when offals ban was introduced. The agent that causes TSEs is not new; it has been known for about 20-30 years. The problem lies in that scientists do not understand it. While some scientists believe the agent is an unconventional virus or an incomplete virus, Dr. Stanley ...
- 13349: Evaluating Methods of Contraception
- ... with semen. Some are coated with a lubricant or a spermicide. Both latex and lambskin condoms are available in several shapes, tapered, flared, or contoured for a tighter fit. Polyurethane and Tactylon condoms are so new they are currently available in only one shape and are either lubricated or plain. Condoms are usually made with the same basic or elementary dimensions. Most measure between six and eight inches long and are ... many advances in contraception, it appears that the condom is still the hands down contraception form of choice. References 1. Bounds, W. (1992). Female Condom: A Clinical Study of its Use- Effectiveness and Patient Acceptability. New York: Bantam Books 2. Rickabaugh, Cheryl A. (1998). Sex and Gender. Boston: The McGraw Hills Company, INC. 3. Smith, Dr. A. (1999). Depo-Provera. New York: Bantam Books 4. Winikoff, Beverly (1997). The Whole Truth about Contraception. Washington DC: John Henry Press
- 13350: Critique on the Concept of Intelligence
- Critique on the Concept of Intelligence Intelligence is defined as the possession of knowledge, the ability to efficiently use knowledge to reason about the world, and the ability to employ that reasoning adaptively in different environments (Bernstein, Clarke-Stewart, Roy, and Wickens, 1997,pp. 304). But can we accurately measure intelligence? There are a vast variety of Intelligence Quotient (IQ ... well-rounded knowledge of things, but since they are so knowledgeable in that one area they are not considered to be stupid by most people. It is my opinion that psychologists need to develop a new form of IQ test that can actually measure a persons intelligence, instead of their knowledge. I think psychologists need to first develop a greater idea of what intelligence really is. By doing this they ...
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