Prostate Cancer And Treatment
.... blockers are new drugs, so the doctors are not sure of all the side effects (Saltus A1). No matter what medication a patient decides to take, the victim still expieriences a great deal of pain. " My cancer, was the most painful thing I have ever had to go through," said Curtis. In the book A Private Battle, Ryan Cornelius has a grade five cancer. Prostate cancer ranges from grade one to grade ten, with ten being the most advanced. When prostate cancer is in its advanced phases, it becomes hard to determine an accurate life expectancy. If he went untreated his life expectancy is only about ten years (32). One of the most dif .....
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Cancer
.... government efforts in cancer research. Cancer research and control programs have made definite progress. In 1900, cancer was almost always fatal. I the 1930’s fewer than one of every five patients were saved. Today, doctors successfully treat one of every three people who get cancer. Some experts believe that if all present knowledge were used promptly in every case of cancer at least half of all cancer patients could be saved. The American Cancer Society was founded in 1913. The first United States cancer hospital was founded in 1884, in New York City. Which later became the Memorial Hospital in 1889. The very first cancer ho .....
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Birth Control At Schools
.... think giving free condoms to children sends mixed messages on what to think about sex education or how to have sex.
Promoting safe sex and distributing free condoms in high schools are great ways to control the rampant spread of sexually transmitted diseases and high levels of teen childbirth. Whether it is a lack of knowledge or a lack of not caring, it is prominent that children need to be influenced to have safe sex. Teachers and staff members are not pushing children to take and use the condoms. It is solely the individual's decision to take and use the condoms, if needed.
The distribution of free condoms is a great wa .....
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Depression
.... During that time large numbers of asylums for the mentally ill were established, and the search was on to understand and treat mental illnesses (Macpherson 368).
Through the 1900’s the treatment of depression was developed with electroconvulsive therapy, antidepressant drugs, and different psychological support therapies. Electroconvulsive therapy was introduced in about 1937 and was the first effective treatment for depression. Electroconvulsive therapy is very effective and is still used today, but because of its harmful side effects it is only used for a patient who is seriously depressed and is potentially a suicide victim .....
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Psychoanalysis
.... logic, indispensable for conscious thinking, do not apply to these unconscious mental productions.
Recognition of these modes of operation in unconscious mental processes made possible the understanding of such previously incomprehensible psychological phenomena as dreaming. Through analysis of unconscious processes, Freud saw dreams as serving to protect sleep against disturbing impulses arising from within and related to early life experiences. Thus, unacceptable impulses and thoughts, called the latent dream content, are transformed into a conscious, although no longer immediately comprehensible, experience called the manifest .....
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Theory Of Human Development
.... they could either eat a Subway turkey round placed in front of them or just sit there and stare and stare at it, common sense shows that these people would eat. However, it is possible that one person, like an anorexic, would just sit and stare at the sandwich. For that reason, it can be assumed that human beings do have free will, however the choices made are greatly impacted and seemingly determined by inherited basic needs, environment, and learned behaviors.
This leads us into a second assumption, rationalism or irrationalism. Do human beings operate primarily on the basis of intellect, or on the basis of impulses and pa .....
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Premarital Sex
.... for your body and your partner's body is lost it makes it easier to do it the next time. Once you have begun to have sex it changes your mind and you begin to feel love as the physical love not the emotional love that God commands us to have. The only time that you get the emotional love that you need is through marriage not through sexual intercourse before marriage. When you wait to have sex you will never have to worry about sexual transmitted diseases that come from having unprotected sex with more than one partner before your marriage. Sexual transmitted disease could kill or cripple you or your children. They could end .....
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Anthrax: Chemical Warfare
.... over a wide area. Engineers also reportedly built small unmanned planes that could deliver anthrax to neighboring countries, flying low and undetected. Similar unmanned aircraft can be used as a inexpensive biological warfare arsenal.
"If you delivered anthrax against Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, you could be looking at thousands of casualties, maybe even ten thousands," said Dr. Kathleen Bailey, senior fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. (Seattletimes.com: Anthrax: a poor mans nucl…)
Anthrax can be prevented in humans by taking vaccines. As a result of Saddams threat to use anthrax in the Per .....
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The Effects Of Ultra-Violet Rays On The Body
.... skin and eyes of the sun’s UV rays is easy. When you are out side in the sun for long periods of time during 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. make sure you are wearing good amount of sunscreen, and reapply every 2 to 2 ½ hours when you are in the sun. “The risk of developing skin cancer is affected by where a person lives. People who live in areas that get high levels of UV radiation from the sun are more likely to get skin cancer. In the United States, for example, skin cancer is more common in Texas than it is in Minnesota, where the sun is not as strong. Worldwide, the highest rates of skin cancer are found in South Africa and Australia, areas .....
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Endotracheal Suctioning
.... to amount of oxygen that could be carried by that volume of blood” (p. 1398). Ackerman (1993), primarily concentrated on the measurement of SpO2 via a pulse oximeter monitor was the focus of the review. Such research will aid nurses and respiratory therapists with their decision of choosing whether to use normal saline, a subject that is often unconsidered. In research by Schwenker & Gift (1998), it was proven that healthcare workers are unsure or are unaware that adverse effects may exist when using normal saline prior to suctioning. Schwenker & Gift (1998) points out that NSI is a common practice used by nurses and respirato .....
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Different Life Crises Have Different Impacts
.... crises and prepare for them. It may also be useful to recognize the impact of crises that have occurred so that one can take account of them appropriately. Holmes and Rahe with the Social Readjustment Scale have done some very interesting work in this area. This allocates a number of “Life Crisis Units” to different events, so that one can evaluate them and take action accordingly (Niven 99). While this approach is obviously a simplification of complex situations, using LCUs can give one a useful start in adjusting to life crises. With regards to the elderly population, namely the events “death of a spouse”, “personal illn .....
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Anorexia Nervosa
.... after eating just a few bites.
This disease occurs at any stage of development, but emerges first in adolescence. Recent estimates suggest that out of every 200 American girls between the ages of 12 and 18, one will develop anorexia to some degree. While most anorexia nervosa patients are female, about 6 percent are adolescent boys. Occasionally, the disorder is found in older women and in children as young as eight years old.
In the classical text on anorexia, Garfinkel and Garner (1892) maintain that a combination of cultural, familial and individual factors predispose an individual to this disorder. Some researchers believe t .....
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