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- 6451: Evaluating Methods of Contraception
- ... People often need different types of contraceptives to suit the different stages in their lives. A method that is useful for preventing pregnancies temporarily is not necessarily adequate 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 ...
- 6452: AIDS
- ... it has been reported in one case and suggested in another. In the reported case, traumatic sex practices apparently resulted in transmission of HIV from a woman who had acquired the virus through IV drug abuse to her non-drug-using sexual partner. Symptoms One of the first signs of HIV-1 infection in some patients is an acute flue like disease. The condition lasts from a few days to several ...
- 6453: Teen Drug Use in the United States
- Teen Drug Use in the United States Drug abuse among teens has become a major issue in recent years. Drug use in the United States alone is much higher then any other industrialized place in the world. There are so many drugs available to ...
- 6454: Mental Disorders
- ... same culture. Persons having an intelligence quotient (IQ) of less than 70 are considered retarded. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder includes conditions marked by inappropriate lack of attention, by impulsiveness, and by hyperactivity, in which the child has difficulty organizing and completing work, is unable to stick to activities or follow instructions, and is excessively restless. Anxiety disorders include fear of leaving home and parents (separation), excessive shrinking from contact with strangers ...
- 6455: Homeopathic Remedies
- ... prevent the chance of what Homeopaths call "antidoting." Certain substances, such as coffee, or environmental stimuli, such as electric blankets, will sometimes completely nullify the remedy. Nancy Herrick, N.P., relates a story of a child which she had successfully treated for severe migraines. Her mother had added coffee by accident to some pancakes. Upon taking one bite of the pancakes the headaches immediately returned (Collinge, pg. 141). Remedies are often ...
- 6456: Tobacco
- ... than their nonsmoking counterparts, but their infants may also have transient or permanent changes in their lung and brain ultrastructure. A patient who is informed of these possible long-term effects of nicotine on her child may be more successful with her smoking cessation.
- 6457: Schizophrenia
- ... four or five genes that track together that form schizophrenia. Its important to diagnose and treat schizophrenia as early as possible to avoid frequent relapses and re-hospitalizations, incorrect or inappropriate treatment, alcohol/substance abuse, and suicide. Symptoms of schizophrenia can also be mistaken for use of drugs, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, autistic disorder, and personality disorder. Some examples of standard Antipsychotic drugs are chlorpromazine, fluphenazine, haloperidol, thiothizene, trifluoperazine, perphenazine ...
- 6458: Marijuana As Medicine?
- ... in their views. In 1994 Donald Abrams, a researcher at the University of California at San Francisco, was granted FDA approval for research into the medical uses of marijuana. "But the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which manages the only legal source of marijuana research in the United States, refused to give him anything."(Sullam, 44) In 1988, after two years of trials brought on by NORML, the DEA's chief ...
- 6459: The Problem With Medicare
- ... 4 times than amount on Health and Medicare alone, and Medicare will equal the annual spending for Defense (CNN). Under our Constitution, Defense is a specific responsibility of the Federal Government. Medicare is a step-child of our Liberal/Socialists. You might keep this in mind when we get to the point where we have to chose what we CAN do versus what we would LIKE to do. By the year ...
- 6460: Schizophrenia
- ... thar could not be avoided, but instead had to be treated. Back in the early 1900s all psychoanlysists agreed that the source of psychic trauma theoretically responsible for schizophrenia was the relationship between the child and the parents (Torrey 91). Within the last thirty years, though, considerable interest has been given to the thought of infectious disease as the cause of schizophrenia. Since viruses can, and do, onlyb affect certain ...
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