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- 1651: Schizophrenia
- ... shocking, too fearsome, too repulsive. They hurry away, trying to dismiss the image of the deranged individual from their minds. No other illness is as disabling and baffling as schizophrenia. Today, in spite of the drugs that have allowed many schizophrenics to live at home or in the community, a significant number of people admitted to mental hospitals are victims of the disease. According to the Encyclopedia Of Health, schizophrenics account ...
- 1652: Schizophrenia
- ... six concrete phrases that describe schizophrenia: it is a real disease, has concrete and specific symptoms, is different from other mental illnesses, is the result of flaws brain biochemistry, may be treated by specific antipsychotic drugs, and is almost always treatable. Scientist are unsure of the causes of schizophrenia, although research is progressing rapidly. Scientist are almost certain that schizophrenia has more than one cause. One cause could be a chemical ...
- 1653: Schitzophrenia, Childhood, Mental, Anxiety and Other Disorders
- ... 85% recovery. The only problem is to convince the person into taken medication because they think they are fine. In some cases people with a disorder think that the goverment is making them take the drugs.
- 1654: Reye Syndrome
- ... due to increasingly better understanding of the disease. Before the first diagnosis in 1963, patients who could have had Reye's Syndrome were treated with medication for intestinal and stomach flu, or given anti-nausea drugs and aspirin(obviously, a big no-no) and sent home with instructions to call the doctor if it got any worse. Many of these treatments ended in death for the patient. Treatment of the patient ...
- 1655: Our World In Medicine
- ... a hole in a patient's skull. Scientists have found fossils of such skulls that date back as far as 10,000 years. Prehistoric people probably also discovered that many plants can be used as drugs. For example, the use of willow bark to relieve pain probably dates back thousands of years.4 Today, scientists know that willow bark contains the important ingredients that is included in making aspirin. In the ...
- 1656: Multiple Sclerosis
- ... therapies involve a few months eliminating allergic foods from your diet, and since foods that are slightly allergic are usually your favorite foods, it's a very hard treatment to stick to. Others swear by drugs and the like, such as ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone), which is the most commonly prescribed treatment, or copolymer I and cyclosporine, which have shown promise in laboratory studies. The statistics of Multiple Sclerosis are puzzling at ...
- 1657: Medical Miracles on the Horizon
- ... in almost all concerns. For example, methadone is currently being used as a therapeutic intervention for some drug addictions. In addition, various medications are now being given in the treatment of criminals, like anti-psychotic drugs to curb aggressive or violent behavior in schizophrenics. A new and improved group of antidepressants is also being used to treat and reduce the growing rate of suicide in all ages of our society. Because ...
- 1658: Hypnosis
- ... are made during hypnosis that it will be easy to induce hypnosis again, the subject will usually enter a trance almost instantly upon an agreed signal from the hypnotist. In conjunction with these induction methods, drugs such as sodium pentothal, alcohol, and certain barbiturates may be used to make the procedure easier, but these are hardly ever necessary and can sometimes even be dangerous. Aside from normal methods, there are a ...
- 1659: Huntington's Disease
- ... from patient to patient, medical treatment must be individualized. Depression, a common symptom, is usually treated with tricyclic antidepressants. Those that also show obsessive compulsive behavior may take some types of serotonergic agents. Neuroleptics, or drugs that block dopamine receptors, are useful in the treatment of chorea. It has been suggested that treatment with nerve-growth producing agents may be an affective treatment, but research is still being conducted. Procedures such ...
- 1660: AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- ... Unleash Power (ACT UP). Those groups have lobbied the federal government for funding and favorable policies. ACT UP was formed in 1987 to urge speed in drug approval and to protest high prices for AIDS drugs. By successfully promoting reforms, ACT UP and other advocates have provided a model for other disease groups, particularly breast cancer advocates. During the 1980s, AIDS groups accused the government of neglecting its duty in responding ...
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