The Ebola Virus
.... causing viral hemorrhagic fevers. All forms of virus of
viral hemorrhagic fever begin with fever and muscle aches. These diseases
usually progress until the patient becomes very ill with respiratory
problems, severe bleeding, kidney malfunctions, and shock. The conclusions
of the viral hemorrhagic fever can range from a mild illness to death
(www.cdc.gov/nci..brochures/ebolainf.html, 1995).
Ebola viruses are spread though close personal contact with a
person who is very ill with the disease. Usually the wide spread action of
the virus takes place among hospital care workers or family members who
were aiding an infected person. Ebo .....
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Forensic Pathology
.... main role is to figure out how a victim died. First they
look at the proximate cause of death. That is the initial injury that led
to a sequence of events which caused the death of the victim. Second they
look at immediate cause of death. That is the injury or disease that
finally killed the individual. Next they look for the mechanism of death,
which is the altered physiology by which a disease or injury produces
death. And finally they look at the manner of death. There are four
manners of death. They include homicide, which someone else caused the
victims death, whether by intention or criminal negligen .....
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Abstinence And STD Prevention
.... of AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Each year,
three million teens are infected with STDs. Among 14- to 20-year-olds,
chlamydia is the most common. It has no obvious symptoms, and can cause
infertility if left untreated. Another common disease is herpes, which
causes sores and painful swelling of the genitals. Its symptoms can be
managed, but not cured. Fifteen percent of all teenage girls carry the
virus that causes genital warts, another common STD. Gonorrhea, not
uncommon in teens, is known to cause pelvic pain, discharge, and painful
urination. It may leave its victims sterile. Perhaps even more serious is
the dis .....
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Cystic Fibrosis Of The Pancreas
.... to Caucasions, usually among Negroes, and very rare in Mongolians.
In the United States, about 1 in every 2000 children is born with the
disease, and 5% of the population are carriers. In the days before
antibiotics, patients succumbed to bronchopheumonia or malnutrition, and
the underlying cause was not recognized. Cystic fibrosis is now known to
be one of the most chronic diseases of children in the United States. A
diagnosis of cystic fibrosis should be suspected whenever a child has
chronic or recurrent bronchitis or when malnutrition is present despite an
adequate diet. The diagnosis may be confirmed through an an .....
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Home Health Care Nursing
.... determines what type of care a patient will receive. Then I will
proceed to explain about what type of experience and qualifications needed
for home health care nursing. Next, I will talk about how home health
nursing is an independent career and explain safety issues and rules for
playing it safe while in the field. Then I will talk about the importance
of documentation. It is the key to getting paid. Finally, I will talk
about the pros and cons of salary and benefits of home health care nursing.
Home health care is growing at a very rapid rate. As our older
population continues to age, the hospital stays continue t .....
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Borderline Personality Disorder
.... abuse. However,
those with Borderline Personality Disorder(B.P.D.) must also have these
symptoms:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal
relationships characterized by alternating between
extremes of idealization and devaluation.
3. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats,
or self-mutilating behavior.
4. Affective instability: marked shifts from baseline
mood to depression, irritability, or anxiety, usually
lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days.
5. Chronic feelings of emptiness.
6. Inapprop .....
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Gonorrhea
.... a past history of any STD, and
unprotected sex (sex without the condom or the newly developed female
condom).
The early symptoms of gonorrhea are often mild, and many women who
are infected have no symptoms of the disease. Symptoms of gonorrhea
usually appear within two to ten days after sexual contact with an infected
partner, although a small percentage of patients may be infected for
several months before showing any symptoms. The initial symptom in women
includes a painful burning sensation when urinating or vaginal discharge
that is yellow or bloody. Other symptoms include abdominal pain, bleeding
between menstrual per .....
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Teenage Suicide
.... hundred and thirty
deaths a week, making suicide the second leading cause of death among
teenagers.
Three major aspects of teenage suicide are (1) what causes teens to
make this choice to take their own lives. (2) How you may be able to detect
if someone you know might be going to commit suicide and (3) and how you
could help someone who may be suicidal.
First what really are the reasons that make teens choose to pick
suicide as an answer to their problems to take thier own lives? One of
the many reasons could be from a form of depression. Depression could be
caused by many different things. Some forms of depression are cause .....
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Abortion And Politics
.... responsibility to provide support. The woman may be forced to become a welfare recipient, become part of this cycle of poverty, and expose herself to the personal humiliation, loss of personal liberty, and inadequate income this entails.
The impact of pregnancy is not only restricted to economical and educational areas. Certainly, there is a physical impact as well as the emotional reaction to an unwanted pregnancy.
When there is a compelling reason, women should be permitted to choose early abortion. For instance, when a woman is raped she is under no obligation morally, and legally to accept the consequences of an act of se .....
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Abortion
.... responsibility to provide support. The woman may be forced to become a welfare recipient, become part of this cycle of poverty, and expose herself to the personal humiliation, loss of personal liberty, and inadequate income this entails.
The impact of pregnancy is not only restricted to economical and educational areas. Certainly, there is a physical impact as well as the emotional reaction to an unwanted pregnancy.
When there is a compelling reason, women should be permitted to choose early abortion. For instance, when a woman is raped she is under no obligation morally, and legally to accept the consequences of an act of se .....
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Attitudes Toward Abortion
.... is not only a direct relationship, as many prior studies assert, but also that there is an interaction effect of the amount of interpersonal contact with others. That is, interaction with others intensifies the effect of other attitudes on attitudes toward abortion.
A THEORETICAL MODEL
Attitudinal Effects
In the literature on abortion attitudes (e.g., Granberg, 1978; Barnartt and Harris, 1982; Granberg and Granberg, 1981; Benin, 1985), several general clusters of attitudes--religiosity, conservativism, and feminism--show consistent correlations with specific attitudes toward abortion. Research has shown that religious and cons .....
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Psychoanalysis
.... and, using these theories, telling his patients through interpretations what was going on inside the unconscious part of their minds, thus making the unconscious become conscious. Many hysterias were cured this way, and in 1895, Breuer and Freud published their findings and theories in Studies in Hysteria.
CLASSIC PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
Traditional psychoanalytical theory states that all human beings are born with instinctual drives that are constantly active even though a person is usually not conscious of thus being driven. Two drives--one for sexual pleasure, called libido, the other called aggression--motivate and propel mos .....
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