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- 6221: Conquering The Smoking Habit
- ... leads. Because smoking is a form of addiction, 80 percent of smoker who quit usually experience some withdrawal symptoms. These may include headache, light-headedness, nausea, diarrhea, and chest pains. Psychological symptoms, such as anxiety, short-term depression, and inability to concentrate, may also appear. The main psychological symptom is increased irritability. People become so irritable, in fact, that they say they feel "like killing somebody." Yet there is no evidence ...
- 6222: The Black Plague
- ... appearance of certain swellings in the groin and armpit area. These swellings, called buboes, were very painful swollen lymph nodes. From the two areas mentioned, the deadly swellings would begin to spread and within a short period of time they would appear at random all over the body. These swellings, to anyone unfortunate enough to contract them, were definite signs that they would soon die (Bunson 93). Another common symptom of ...
- 6223: The Sports Medicine Profession
- ... groups have attempted to gather data on the risks of participating in various sports. Almost all of these attempts have focused on sports in an organized setting, for younger age groups, and have involved relatively short-term observations. With the recent increase in participation in general fitness activities, and with such participation being encouraged by the medical community as a public health intervention to promote healthy lifestyles, it often is not ...
- 6224: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... FAS. The first characteristic is small birth weight and size before and after birth. The second is specific facial appearance with two of the following groups of signs: microcephaly or small head, small eyes or short eye openings, under development of the lip with flat philtrum (upper lip ridges), thin upper lip and flat mid face. The last characteristic is signs of central nervous system damage. However fetal alcohol syndrome damages ...
- 6225: Compare And Contrast Depression And Schizophrenia
- ... other drugs to cause increases in blood pressure, physicians prescribing them should provide instructions to patients about the necessary precautions. In depressions sufficiently severe to require psychiatric treatment, shock therapy has been found an effective short-term procedure. It has been misused and overused so widely, however, that a public aversion to it exists, and shock therapy is now most often used in cases of severe endogenous and delusionary depressions. Important ...
- 6226: Bulimia
- Bulimia Bulimia is an eating disorder in which persistent overconcern with body weight and shape leads to repeated episodes of binging (consuming large amounts of food in a short time) associated with induced vomiting, use of laxatives, fasting, and/or excessive exercise to control weight. Bulimia was classified as a distinct disorder by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980; the name was changed to ...
- 6227: AIDS Is A Killer
- AIDS Is A Killer As we all know AIDS is a killer. AIDS is short for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. AIDS can be contracted either through sexual intercourse, by blood transfusion, or an exchange of bodily fluids from an infected person to a non-infected person. What many people do not ...
- 6228: Scoliosis
- ... not occur, and the curvature is usually non-progressive regions (What is scoliosis? 1999). This type of scoliosis is classified into postural. It disappears on forward bending. Functional scoliosis is most commonly due to a short ring. In structural scoliosis, the vertebra occurs in combination with lateral curvature, thus causing a bulge of one side of the rib cage. This protuberance is usually seen best when a person bends forward. Structural ...
- 6229: The Black Plague
- ... appearance of certain swellings in the groin and armpit area. These swellings, called buboes, were very painful swollen lymph nodes. From the two areas mentioned, the deadly swellings would begin to spread and within a short period of time they would appear at random all over the body. These swellings, to anyone unfortunate enough to contract them, were definite signs that they would soon die (Bunson 93). Another common symptom of ...
- 6230: "The Loons"
- ... stolid and expressionless before animated now with a gaiety that was almost violet. She was laughing and talking very loudly with the boys around her. Her lipstick was bright carmine and her hair was cut short and tizzy permed. Her dark eyes were beautiful and she had a slender body. Piquette attitude also have changed because of the way she was talking to Vanessa. She was really nice to her. She ...
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