Meningitis
.... some permenant and physically disabling and some less obvious, affecting the patient emotionally. Although many people will make a quick and complete recovery others will need a lot of support and care over the weeks and months following there illness. Unfortunately it is impossible to predict which after-effects if any an individual will suffer from. The after-effects are similar of the two forms of meningitis bacterial is considered much more serious then viral since it is fatal in about 1 out of 10 cases. But it is a mistake to assume that patients who have had viral meningitis are any less vulnerable to the afte .....
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Antibiotics And Their Role In Society
.... It is believed that antibiotics interfere with the surface of bacteria cells, causing a change in their ability to reproduce. Testing the action of an antibiotic in the laboratory shows how much exposure to the drug is necessary to halt reproduction or to kill the bacteria. Although a large amount of an antibiotic taken at one time might kill the bacteria causing an illness, such a dose usually would make the person suffer from illness caused by the drug. Therefore, antibiotics are given in a series of smaller amounts. This assures that the bacteria are either killed or reduced enough in numbers so that the body can re .....
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Being A Doctor
.... medical ethics that influences medical practice still to this day (Hopke 494). Physicians that are starting to practice medicine generally take the Hippocratic Oath, which Hippocrates gave to his peers that were starting medicine.
Becoming a doctor is probably one of the hardest fields. To become a doctor, a person must be emotionally stable to handle any kind of situation. What if he had a patient that died right in front of his eyes? Physicians have to handle these kinds of situations every day. A person wanting to become a doctor has many responsibilities, including being devoted to many hours of schooling. Hard labor in a ho .....
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The Effects Of Creatine
.... ever popular “weight gainer”, which consisted mostly of sugar and protein. Similarly, people who wanted to loose weight looked to magical pills composed of tropical plants, strange chemicals, or chromium picolinate. Though there may be benefits in taking some of these supplements, none gave the user the results they were really looking for. In 1993, a seemingly “magical powder” was released that claimed to add strength and power, build lean muscle, boost endurance, and reduce bodyfat. Though most people were skeptical at first, numerous studies and millions of customers agree that creatine monohydrate does just that. This p .....
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Sleepwalking
.... which will sleepwalk at least once in their lifetime range quite a bit. Some sources say that most children will walk in their sleep at least once, with 15% of them sleepwalking more regularly. Others claim that 18% of the population is "prone to sleepwalking". There is consensus, however, on the fact that boys sleepwalk more frequently than girls and that it is between the ages of 11 and 12 that the most cases of sleepwalking are reported. The fact that most children grow out of it after puberty and that people who start sleepwalking later in life tend to have the problem for the rest of their lives seems to suggest that th .....
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Pursuing A Career In Psychiatry
.... of the victim’s body. The early civilizations would treat the mental illnesses by trying to make the body so uncomfortable that the demon would want to leave. But, by the late eighteenth century, most people were convinced that mental disturbances were not caused by supernatural powers. Scientists, however, were still unsure whether such illnesses stemmed from physical problems or psychological abnormalities. The nineteenth century saw an explosion of interest in medical theories regarding mental disorders. In 1861, Paul Pierre Broca discovered that tumors led to speech loss, and sparked other scientist’s search for the answers to .....
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Being An Athletic Trainer
.... While others suggest a challenge more mentally than physically.
Physically
For an athletic trainer, physically you must be able to communicate well with athletes on proper use of equipment and confer with coaches and physicians. You also have to kneel, stoop, and crouch to examine and treat injuries.
Athletic trainers also should have good hand-eye coordination. They need to see and react to almost any situation in an instant. If you wish to become an athletic trainer you also need to have good sight to evaluate injuries; however, alternative methods may be used for those with physical disabilities. You must not hav .....
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AIDS And Its History
.... of them have risk factors in their lives such as drug abuse, sexual behavior or other shocks to the system that expose them to many microbes.
AIDS is therefore not infectious, Duesberg argues. He thinks the epidemic is the result of an explosion in the use of "recreational" drugs such as cocaine, which badly damage the immune system. He also claims the epidemic is being fuelled by use of the anti-AIDS drug AZT. It is so toxic, he says, that it brings on AIDS-like symptoms in HIV-positive people. Duesberg, once hailed as one of the most brilliant scientists of his generation has been trying to issue warnings for several years, .....
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The Problem Of Teens And Smoking
.... tobacco became the most important industry of the Virginia and Maryland colonies. Sometime later it became the major industry in North Carolina.
“The first of the tobacco manufacturers to mass-produce cigarettes was Washington, Duke and Sons of Durham, North Carolina (Theodore, 77).”
Tobacco is a highly addictive drug. This makes it very hard for heavy smokers to quit. Heavy smokers who do attempt to quit smoking will suffer many different painful withdrawal symptoms; some are psychological, such as moodiness and intense cravings. Others are physical such as gastrointestinal distress, sleep disturbances, lowere .....
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Steroids And The Big Picture
.... steroids will help them build muscle but they don’t know about the side effects and the long-term effects. Teenagers have a hard time looking ahead to the near future, never mind much later in their lives. But society continues to tell the youths of today that society wants muscular physiques. Pick up any teen or muscle magazine and everybody inside will have a perfect sculpted body. There are people that have a hard time working out or have no motivation, and they see someone using steroids that hardly lifts weights and are getting massive gains in strength. Obviously the nonuser is going to be curious of using steroids.
One of .....
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Caregivers
.... are and the significant contributions they make.
81% of caregivers are female
79% are married
70% are between age 40-60
54% care for spouses
21% care for parents
69% of care recipients live with their caregivers
55% of caregivers help recipient with daily living activities.
Family Caregivers. Available: http://www.agenet.com/Who_Are_They.html.
A caregiver is more than just the person’s nurse, they are also that person’s advocate. Throughout the impaired person’s illness, the work of a caregiver is largely concerned with watching and problem solving. One must learn as much as they can about the illness and .....
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Narcolepsy
.... Sleep Paralysis, Hypnagogic Hallucinations, and Automatic Behavior . However, only 20 to 25 percent of narcolepsy patients suffer the complete range of symptoms.
EDS is usually the first symptom to be noted. It is sometimes expressed as sleepiness, tiredness, lack of energy, sleep attacks, or an unusual susceptibility to becoming sleepy or falling asleep. In general, the development of EDS is a slow process and requires several years to become an obvious problem. Although this pathological sleepiness is present every day, the intensity varies throughout each day. The afflicted individual may only be aware of the more severe o .....
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