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Antibiotic Resistance
... effects of that antibiotic. Another
cause of resistance is the improper use of drugs. When patients feel that
the symptoms of their disease have improved, they often stop taking the
drug. Just because the symptoms have disappeared it does not mean the
disease has gone away. Prescribed drugs should be taken until all the
medicine is gone so the disease is completely finished. If it is not, then
this will just give the bacteria some time to find a way to avoid the
effects of the drug.
One antibiotic that will always have a long lasting effect in history is
penicillin. This was the first antibiotic ever to be discovered. Alexander
Fleming was the person responsible fo ...
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Factors That Influence Drug Addiction
... influence of each of these biological and psychological factors that creates, maintains, and subsequently sustains addiction.
The availability of the drugs play the most prominent role in the addiction process. Simply stated, if drugs and/or alcohol did not exist there couldn’t conceivably be a drug addiction. Nevertheless, drugs and alcohol do exist, so it isn’t their existence that effects the addiction, but how readily available to the addict each substance is. The Vietnam Veterans, who used heroin during the war, are an excellent example of how availability strengthens the addiction process. Opiates were very easy to obtain in Vietnam, and as a result ten ...
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Euthanasia
... law .But was dismissed by the NT Supreme Court. After appealing and
with the support of three major party leaders the law was passed. Prime
Minister John Howard disapproved with the Law and saying that he has no problem
reconciling his views on federalism with his views on life and death by voting
to over turn the law. Also Kevin Andrews was strongly not in favour and with
Howard's support he introduced a bill overriding the N.T laws. But still in
the end the law was still standing. If our leaders are divided we could say that
the citizens of Australia would have been divided on this Issue. Maybe a
referendum would have been appropriate, but still euthanasi ...
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Definition Of Job Burn Out
... and the imposing work demands. Finally, individuals recognize the discrepancy between their current attitude and their original optimistic expectations about their potential contributions…" (Cordes & Dougherty, p.624).
Job burn out is best known for occurring among professionals, such as lawyers, nurses and doctors, who often spend large amounts of time in close, and sometimes highly emotional, contact with their clients (Schaufeli & Buunk, 1996). In some workplace situations people do not have all the resources they need, such as time, to do the job as well as they would like. If the employee has a high level of emotional involvement with the job this s ...
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Assisted Suicide
... and it would be unconscionable to encourage or support them in a transitory wish to die. There are also many unemployed and unemployable, many disabled of all ages, and many senior citizens whose families might, for selfish or downright malicious reasons, encourage them to seek . All kinds of people in difficult situations could be at risk of being intimidated or forced into feeling their early death would be a convenience to society. Section 241 is doubly flawed. It is not an especially effective drawback against those who seek to prey on the vulnerable, but at the same time it forces persons enduring intolerable suffering to exist in that state against the ...
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AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
... fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name
(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the Segals, "has been traced
back to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also
called 'helper cells`, which play a regulatory role in the production of
antibodies in the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number
of functional T4-cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot
be produced and the defenceless patient remains exposed to a range of
infections that under other circumstances would have been harmless. Most
AIDS patients die from opportunistic infections rather than from the AIDS
virus itself. The ...
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Preventing Injuries
... start to condition those areas. A doctor’s visit is not out of the question when starting some physical activities, and sometimes it is very much suggested. A person should get a physical exam done to check their blood pressure, cholesterol, and weight to make sure the exercises they are going to begin are appropriate for their fitness level.
Once a person is cleared to exercise, they should always remember to stretch and warm up before doing the activity. Like any automobile, a person also needs to warm up their body before being used. One of the best ways to do this is to just do a light jog and then stretch. This way the muscles are warmed up a little bit an ...
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The Lymphatic System
... usually occur in the places blood capillaries occur. Lymph
capillaries are not found in bone, teeth, bone marrow, and entire central
nervous system. Lymphatic capillaries are very permeable. The endothelial cells
that make up the walls of the capillaries are not tightly joined. Filament
anchor the endothelium cells so they can expand. Pathogens can spread through
the body through the lymphatic stream.
There are many cells in the lymphoid tissue. One type is lymphocytes,
which are reffered to often as T or B cells. Plasma cells are antibody-producing
offspring of B cells. Macrophages are phagocytes that help out with immunity.
Reticular cells are cells that fo ...
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Euthanasia
... because it resolves a hopeless situation. Conversely, even with this gradation, some opponents to believe that voluntary, passive is the same as suicide; involuntary is considered to be murder.
Because poses classic dilemmas as to its morality, it is not surprising that many issues arise in the legal and medical arenas. In law, the resolution of a particular case cannot always be applied to resolve another. In the medical realm, interpretation of medical doctrine concerning treatment of terminally ill patients can result in entirely different applications.
In two relatively recent cases, the Supreme Court had to decide the future of patients that wer ...
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Von Willebrand’s Disease
... the site of the injury is impaired. (See figure.1)
is probably the most common hereditary bleeding disorder and may occur in up to one percent of the population (sixty-two million people worldwide). Patients with von Willebrand disease have either have stopped the production of von Willebrand factor or they produce a molecule that does not function normally, which cause their platelets do not adhere properly when blood vessels are injured, therefor it takes longer for a blood clot to form. In some patients, the factor VIII (the anti-hemophilic factor that helps blood clot) is also reduced, and blood clotting is severally impaired. In patients with hemophilia, the ...
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