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- 11081: Biological Warfare and Terrorism
- ... ve been considered unconventional, uncivilized, and even gruesome. These adjectives have also been employed often when describing terrorists. In general terrorists thrive off of the shock factor of their activities and chemical warfare exhibits a high degree of shock factor. Therefore, the use of chemical weapons may "enhance" many terrorist groups' images. The final advantage offered by chemical weapons is their enormous ability to inflict casualties. These weapons are extremely cost ...
- 11082: Schizophrenia
- ... know that roads are used for driving cars, and that people eat meals three a day. Schizophrenia affect both men and women equally. Along with delusions, hallucinations, and thought disorders, they also suffer from paranoia, high anxiety, low stress tolerance, low motivation, lack of energy and the inability to feel pleasure. This makes work, leisure, relationships and even everyday tasks difficult, sometimes impossible. These are concerns not only for the people ...
- 11083: Issues To Consider In Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Patients
- ... or profoundly deaf, additional factors in assessment of hearing loss include the shape of the audiogram, whether hearing loss is unilateral or bilateral and whether the loss has been stable or progressive. For example, the high-frequency loss typically caused by noise-induced damage particularly affects the ability to hear consonants in speech and therefore reduces speech comprehension. Unilateral or monaural hearing loss is more pernicious than commonly supposed and can ...
- 11084: Schizophrenia
- ... schizophrenia differ from person to person. They can develop over a long period of time or very abruptly. Some symptoms are mild feelings of tension, inability to sleep or concentrate, or loss of interest in school, work, and friends. Other bizarre symptoms are delusions, hallucinations, or disordered speech and thoughts. Schizophrenia can appear in cycles known as relapse or remission. During a relapse, the patient can suffer from the following symptoms ...
- 11085: Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
- ... exercises as well as specific shoulder girdle exercises that have been proposed (Injuries to the Throwing Arm, p.186). To reiterate on the treatment previously stated, Dr. Robert D. Leffert, MD. of the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, says the patient should attempt a postural reeducation and periscapular muscle-strengthening program to alleviate the symptoms of thoracic outlet syndrome (JAAOS, p.32). According to Dr. George Pianka, MD., and Dr ...
- 11086: Alzheimers Special Care Units
- ... clear expectations of appropriate actions of the resident. This involves using classical conditioning actions such as hugs, praise, etc., when a proper behavior of the resident is demonstrated. For example, when a patient exhibits a high level of involvement in an activity, this should be rewarded with commendation and encouragement. It is also crucial to foster the residents recall of time and place by using reminiscence groups and learning the ...
- 11087: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... The alcohol just sits in the milk waiting to be released from the body. "Alcohol freely crosses the placental barrier with studies indicating the concentration of alcohol in the fetal blood is at least as high as in the maternal bloodstream" (Anderson, 90). People believe that damage is probably minimal in the first two weeks, but during the first trimester, when the fetus organs are forming, the effects are especially severe ...
- 11088: Managing People with AIDS
- ... claims. The costs for medical, disability, life insurance, and retirement benefits could reach $315,000 for an employee making $75,000 a year. Experts estimate that lost productivity of workers with AIDS could be as high as $500 billion worldwide. (Paul and Townsend, p. 9) Another issue that AIDS patients face is the potential loss of their insurance coverage. More and more people who left highly skilled jobs when they developed ...
- 11089: Rheumatoid arthritis
- ... also a possible explanation. People with Rheumatoid arthritis almost always have an antibody called Rheumatoid factor present in their blood. Diagnosis of Rheumatoid arthritis is based on X-rays, symptom evaluation, and blood tests showing high levels of Rheumatoid factor. Synovial fluid analysis and complete blood counts are also part of diagnosis. Radiology studies will show soft tissue swelling, narrowed joint space and marginal erosions. Signs and symptoms of early Rheumatoid ...
- 11090: Schizophrenia
- ... under a class known as the catecholamines which transmit information between nerve cells (Bebbington 110). The reason dopamine has come under so much speculation is because when amphetamines are given to a person in a high dosage they cause the dopamine levels in the brain to increase. Which in turn causes schizophrenic type behavior. Drugs that block dopamine receptors in the brains of schizophrenics have been proven to be effective in ...
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