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Essays on Medicine

Meditation: A In-Depth Look
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... forms to retain this everlasting relationship. Thousands of young people flocked to the ideas of Hinduism in the 1970's to escape the drug culture of the times. As the troubled youth of the 1970's matures into the professionals of the 1990's, the practice of meditation has been incorporated into the medical field and studied for its effect on the body and mind. The physical practice of meditation slows and calms the body, lowering blood pressure and heart rate with the use of deep breathing exercises. The calming of the body in itself works to fight stress but those who meditate say that meditation also helps to replenish the mind. The mind, along with the body, ...



Inflammatory Bowel Disease/ Crohn's Disease
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... small and large intestine (those really bad places again) are affected. In other cases, only the SUPER really bad place is involved. Sometimes, inflammation also may affect the mouth, esophagus, stomach, duodenum, appendix, or some nasty sounding word. Crohn's disease is a chronic condition and may recur at various times over a lifetime. Some people have long periods of remission, sometimes for years, when they are free of symptoms. There is no way to predict when a remission may occur or when symptoms will return. The most common symptoms of Crohn's disease are abdominal pain, often in the lower right area, and diarrhea. There also may be rectal bleeding, w ...



Abortion
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... No matter what anyone argues, abortion is murder, plain and simple. How could one deny that when a doctor grabs his forceps and crushes a child's skull and sucks out what was once a brain, how could they say that is not murder, how could someone get away with doing this. Then again people ask that same question about OJ. There are many abortion-slaughter techniques that are used today. Examples are the Dilatation and Curettage (D&C) where a loop shaped steel knife is inserted and the child is cut into pieces, also there is the Dilatation and Evacuation (D&E) where the doctor uses forceps with sharp metal jaws and tears the child apart, piece by piece. Usuall ...



What Is PMS?
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... symptoms. What Causes PMS? No one really knows the cause of PMS. Study suggests that PMS is most likely caused by hormonal changes that occur before each period. It is also very unclear why some symptoms have minor effects while other have major effects. Who Experiences PMS? It said in some evaluations that approximately 10 percent of women that are menstruating experience extreme premenstrual symptoms. PMS can happen at any time in a menstruating woman's life. It usually appears in women in their early twenties through thirties. *PMS is reported by mostly women who- -have had children -had pregnancy complications (such as toxemia) -report minor pain and c ...



The Dangers Of Cigarettes
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... cigarettes is how it is such a dirty habit. They cause your clothes and breath to stink like smoke and they also cause your teeth to turn yellow, which is disgusting. Cigarettes also caused a big mess in my room. My room would stink like smoke after only one cigarette and after a couple you couldn’t even see, which would also get my parents mad. My garbage would be filled with ashes and cigarettes. The ash tray would get filled up and get knocked over and cause a mess. Cigarettes would also cause an inconvenience since all the time I would have a cigarette my throat would get dry. The dryness would cause me to get up for a drink or if I was out somewhere ...



Artificial Heart Devices
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... artificial heart. The potential for such inventions are enormous. According to the American Heart Association, there are between 16,000 and 40,000 possible recipients of artificial heart devices under the age of sixty-five. If perfected, it would enable us to save thousands of human lives. In considering the full impact of artificial heart devices on society, we must not narrow our thinking to include only the beneficial possibilities. There exist moral, ethical, and economic factors that accompany these new innovations to humanity. Who will receive these brilliant inventions? Obviously not all of the patients will get transplants, so selection criteria must be ...



Lucid Dreaming
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... is not occurring in physical reality, but is a dream. Often this realization is triggered by the dreamer noticing some impossible or unlikely occurrence in the dream, such as meeting a person who is dead, or flying with or without wings. Sometimes people become lucid without noticing any particular clue in the dream; they just suddenly realize that they are in a dream. A minority of lucid dreams (about 10 percent) are the result of returning to REM sleep directly from an awakening with unbroken reflective consciousness (LaBerge, 1985). These types of lucid dreams occur most often during daytime napping. If the napper has been REM deprived from a previous night ...



Dehumanization Of Infants
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... of children she says that his Ideas and others show this digression in morals values , she outlines this my giving a number of deferent examples of arguments that have been used by the anti-life movements such as, children having handicaps ,severe physical and intellectual handicaps. she said that in most cases you would consider this disrimitory but in many cases these abortion are considered justified because the baby may have a handicap. She gave allot of reasonable arguments of the unfairness that is involved in the laws in regards to abortion for instance in America if you pay taxes your tax money could be used to help fund abortion in the united states . an ...



Prader-Willi Syndrome
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... is a birth defect. A defect in the hypothalamus, a region of the brain, is suspected to be the cause.The hypothalamus determines hunger and satiety.They can’t fell satiety,so they always have a urge to eat.Some PWS cases are so out of control thay will eat bottlecaps,glass,pencils,garbage,bugs,dogfood, and anything else they can stuff in their mouths. "The ingenuity and determination of PWS children in surreptitiously obtaining edibles is almost legendary and belies their cognitive defects. Serial weighing may be the only way to discover whether such a child is, in fact, stealing food"(Finey,1983). PWS occurs in about l in 10,000 births. It occurs i ...



Euthanasia
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... concluded that when an EEG reading is what is known as "flat line" the person, is officially dead. What this actually means is that although there may not be any brain activity, other vital organs can work by means of certain equipment. Now heart- lung machines can augment the duration of life. Well some say that life is precious, HOW IS LIFE PRECIOUS, WHEN IT CAN NOT BE LIVED TO THE FULLEST ?. I believe that Euthanasia should be legalized because of that option of dying. People say that their should be a option to live, but I think that there should also be a option to die. Many also think that they should stay alive because they don't want ...




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