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- 5451: Premature Infancy
- ... developed senses and underdeveloped organs, which may become a problem, since the brain may not be developed well enough to be able to distinguish these different senses, which causes the baby to panic and lose control of its actions. The main underdeveloped parts of a premature baby are its organs, chiefly the lungs and the brain. The lungs are developed in the last few weeks of pregnancy, and if the child ...
- 5452: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- ... an important role in the formation of children's adjustment disorders subsequent to sexual abuse (Wolf et al 38)." Because people do not anticipate an abusive episode there are usually things the victim can not control. Sexual abuse is just such a stressful event that will produce a form of a coping reaction. Because children are impressionable the perpetrator may consult, threaten of confuse the child to confession. Child victims of ...
- 5453: Our World In Medicine
- ... Wilhelm Roentgen enabled doctors to see inside the human body to diagnose illnesses and injuries. The discovery of radium in 1898 provided a powerful weapon against cancer.15 The development of new vaccines has helped control the spread of such infectious diseases as polio, hepatitis, and measles. During the 1960's and 1970's, the World Health Organization conducted a vaccination program that eliminated smallpox from the world. Much progress in ...
- 5454: Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors
- ... a biological explanation for some obsessive compulsive disorders. There may be an imbalance in the frontal lobes of the brains of obsessive-compulsives that prevents the two brain regions from working together to channel and control incoming sensations and perceptions."(Boulougouris,1971) The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders requires at least five of the following symtoms to be characteristic of the persons functioning. In addition ...
- 5455: About Medical Marijuana
- ... of blindness in the United States. Multiple Sclerosis: Marijuana reduces the muscle pain and spasticity caused by the disease. It may also relieve tremor and unsteadiness of gait, and it helps some patients with bladder control. Multiple sclerosis is the leading cause of neurological disability among young and middle-aged adults in the United States. Epilepsy: Marijuana prevents epileptic seizures in some patients. Chronic Pain: Marijuana reduces the chronic, often debilitating ...
- 5456: Mandatory AIDS Testing
- ... right tool to help prevent HIV infection. Some of the question asked may be very difficult or even impossible to answer, but a strong debate can be put up for both sides. Can Aids testing control the spread of AIDS, for the individuals who seem to believe that it can, many argument go in it's favor. By promoting HIV testing "it enables those who have tested positive to seek early ...
- 5457: The Effects of Lead Poison on Children
- ... deficit disorder and behavior problems. When these are added up it causes the student to become a dropout from school and a negative contribution to our communities(Monheit, 1996). The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC) have found that these injuries occur when blood levels rise to a mere 10 Micrograms per deciliter of whole blood. Lead poisoning is treatable in the early stages due to ...
- 5458: How has AIDS affected our Society?
- ... people agree that AIDS is a very important issue and cannot be ignored. Personally, I believe that the country and society is to blame for the spread of AIDS. We let it get out of control. The modes of transmission have been known for a considerable amount of time, yet the disease still continues to spread. There are few people who can honostly claim not to know the ways in which ...
- 5459: Software Licensing
- ... and/or to become more competitive by offering new ways in which to evaluate, purchase and pay for software. Since the license manager controls the number of application users, there is not a need to control the number of application copies. This process lets the end user run one or more applications between machines, without violating the terms of the license agreement. SPA has created a program that companies can use ...
- 5460: HIV
- ... The final stage of the virus attacks the nervous system, "damaging the brain and the spinal cord."(Kelly 532). This can lead to a number of problems in the body: blindness, depression, loss of body control, loss of memory. This can often last for months before the victim finally passes away. Once the HIV virus enters the body it infects the "T" cell the protectors of the immune system. Once they ...
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