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- 1571: Assisted Suicide
- ... work. There are just far too many patients and not enough physicians to aid all of the them. A patient who wants to stop receiving the medical help that is keeping them alive, and have drugs administered to end their suffering, should be allowed to do as they wish. This refusal of help could allow more time for the doctors to save the lives of people who desperately want to live ...
- 1572: Xenotransplantation
- ... from heart disease. Another advantage of this would be cost, even know Xenotransplantation cost a great deal of money and tons of time in research, we are currently spending $7.3 billion in medical care, drugs, and research and another $1.2 billion in lost earnings and productivity. (Keon, 2000). When you look at the troubles the come into play with Xenotransplantation the first thing that would come to mind would ...
- 1573: Anorexia Nervosa
- ... have fallen into a pattern of self-starvation. As a patient begins to learn more about the condition, he or she is often more willing to try to help recover. In cases of severe depression, drugs such as antidepressants are part of therapy. Behavior improvement generally occurs rapidly in these cases, and the patient is able to respond more quickly to treatment. The third aspect of treatment, family therapy, is supportive ...
- 1574: Different Life Crises Have Different Impacts
- ... physical ailments, and their mortality rate is higher than expected. Bereaved people may be vulnerable to illness in part because, feeling unhappy, they do not sleep well, they stop eating properly, and they consume more drugs and cigarettes. Bereavement, and the emotional loneliness it creates, produces cardiovascular changes, a lowered number of white blood cells, and other abnormal responses of the immune system (Broome and Llewelyn 545). After spending ones ...
- 1575: Theory of Human Development
- ... sort of trauma to the development of the infant at this point could have mild to drastic effects that could cause damage to the body and/or brain. This would include the use of various drugs by the mother, such as alcohol, tobacco, and crack, or some sort of physical abuse to the mother during the pregnancy. Each one is capable of causing some sort of mental or physical handicap to ...
- 1576: Bulimia nervosa
- ... their thirties or forties when their eating behavior is deeply ingrained and more difficult to change. Bulimia is often treated more successfully than anorexia, partly because bulimic patients usually want to be treated. Most antidepressant drugs relieve the symptoms, usually more quickly than they relieve depression. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are probably most useful, because they have relatively few side effects and tend to cause weight loss rather than weight ...
- 1577: Doctor Assisted Suicide
- ... go through pain than to be dead. And when a physician like Dr. Kevorkian helps somebody take his or her life, it is done so painlessly. As we saw on 60 Minutes Youk was given drugs intravenously that slow down his system and made his heart stop functioning there by killing him. And Tom Youk felt no pain. The community should get involved with the issue of physician-assisted suicide to ...
- 1578: Dead End: Teenage Suicide
- ... for teen suicide. This list of these culprits is long: Too much divorce, too little religion, too much television and too little communication between parents. Absent parents, too much sexual freedom, and widespread use of drugs and alcohol, to many guns, not enough love and finally a hostile world. Each of these reasons has probably contributed to the suicides of many teens, but none of them singly or together, provide the ...
- 1579: Narcolepsy
- ... of stress. Avoidance of stimulants like caffeine and nicotine in the evenings may also be beneficial. Doctors may prescribe mediations to help control the symptoms of narcolepsy. However, many times the side effects of these drugs are worse than the original ailments. Melatonin is a natural hormone produced by the pineal gland. It controls the sleep/wake rhythm of the body. It has been used with some success in controlling the ...
- 1580: Pursuing a Career in Psychiatry
- ... In the 1940s and 1950s emphasis shifted again, this time to social and physical enviornment. Many psychiatrists ignored biological influences, but some began using physical forms of treatment. In the mid 1950s the first effective drugs for the treatment of psychotic symptoms were developed, and later research led to discoveries of genetic and biochemical sources of mental illnesses. The emphasis had again shifted back to biological by the 1980s (Psychiatry 1 ...
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