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History of the disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease since it claimed the life of the New York Yankees' "Iron Horse" Lou Gehrig in 1941. It is a spreading and worsening neuromuscular disease. It is characterized by a gradual deterioration of motor nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. When the motor neurons can no further send impulses to the muscles, the muscles begins to waste away, causing increased muscle weakness. Throughout the world, one to two per 100,000 people are diagnosed with this disease every year. Most people are diagnosed in their mid-50s, but it can also concern young adults in there mid teens. Still, appearance of the disease before 30 years of age is rare. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive, fatal neurological disease affecting as many as 20,000 Americans with 5,000 new cases occurring in the United States each year. ALS manifests itself in different ways, depending on which muscles lessen first. Symptoms may include tripping and falling, loss of motor control in hands and arms, difficulty speaking, swallowing and/or breathing, persistent fatigue, and twitching and cramping, sometimes quite severely. ALS strikes through mid-life. Men are about one-and-a-half times more circumspect to have the disease as women are.
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Filename: 633 Lou Gehrig's Disease.doc
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646.758 Long Term Care Insurance
Long Term Care Insurance provides benefits for care in nursing homes, alternate living facilities, community living facilities, hospitals and home care. The major reason for acquiring LTC is to avoid any support from family members and friends for care, and to assure that adequate care and choices will be available and affordable in times of need. Long Term Care Insurance pays a daily benefit in one's favor to help recover the costs of care. Benefit periods can be between 2-6 years or for lifetime. Daily benefit amounts are favored at time of purchase usually based on the prevailing costs of full-time care. The benefit can be increased annually with a simple interest calculation, or increased each year with a compound interest calculation. The biggest change we have seen is that we've managed to create a health care and long-term care system that can provide extensive care. That's the need of the day.
Pages: 19
Bibliography: 10 source(s) listed
Filename: 758 Long Term Insurance.doc
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647.765 Mandatory Chicken Pox Vaccine
Contagious diseases carry through to be a dominant health hazard in all developing and developed countries, in addition to USA. Fortunately medical research continues to give us new tools to tackle at least some of these problems. New vaccines are being discovered. These help in opposing and resisting life threatening and debilitating diseases. Chicken Pox or Varicella Zoster is an infectious disease. It is generally not life threatening. Approximately 3.9 million cases of chicken pox occur each year in the United States, killing an estimated 90 persons (0.0023% death rate).
Pages: 2
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Filename: 765 Chicken Pox Vaccine.doc
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648.799 Patient's Autonomy
Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine is an accustomed way to become acquainted with the central and most debatable questions in the current biomedical ethics. Euthanasia, abortion, genetic engineering and cloning, surrogate motherhood, procreative autonomy - all these and various other topics are featured in this book. Overall this book still is a great opening to gain understanding into the most absorbing issues in today's biomedical ethics.
Pages: 8
Bibliography: 5 source(s) listed
Filename: 799 A Patient's Autonomy.doc
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649.810 Treatment and Prevention of Pressure Sores
Most people know that if an invalid is restricted in movement that pressure sores can happen. However, there are ways to treat and prevent some pressure sores. This paper discusses methods of preventing pressure sores. It has been estimated that 3% to 5% of all hospital inpatients will develop pressure sores either just before, during, or after admission" (wmunro.com 2002). "The pathogenesis of pressure ulcers consists of more than simply pressure-related necrosis. Skin is usually resistant to this type of destruction, yet these ulcers evolve to include the skin" Fonendo 2002). Factors that increase the risk of bedsores are age, skin thinning, weight loss, and vascular insufficiency. Often the patient enters the hospital and may be limited to mobility such as hip fractures. A bedsore further limits the mobility of the patient. Therefore, finding a way to predict these sores would be the best solution to the problem.
Pages: 8
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Filename: 810 Prevent Pressure Sores.doc
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650.875 Emergency Rooms Crisis
This paper discusses the observation of an emergency room crisis and observation of a woman's shelter for domestic violence. Often observations are used in the study of science and psychology. A person can learn a lot from observation. The elderly, a little boy, and an ambulance are part of the observation of the emergency rooms crisis. The Moss House is a shelter for women who have been domestically abused and have no place to go. After explaining my assignment, they give me special permission to visit during one of their meetings.The shelter is large with several rooms upstairs and several downstairs. The meeting room is in the dining area.
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Bibliography: 3 source(s) listed
Filename: 875 Emergency Rooms Crisis.doc
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651.899 Women Beware
Chlyamdia is a serious STD that is often left untreated. "This disease left untreated can damage reproductive damage and infertility in many of the 3 million to 4 million American who get it each year. Chlamydia's consequences can be devastating" (Nordenberg 1).Routine chlamydia screening is necessary to prevent harm to young adolescents and others who may not be aware that they have this sexually transmitted disease (STD). "The sexually transmitted disease chlamydia usually comes with no telltale symptoms, so most people don't even know when they are infected" (Nordenberg 1). If people do not know they have a disease they will not get treated. Approximately four million cases of chlamydia are reported each year.