by 20 different states. Those who contracted the infection were mostly between ten months to three years of age and experienced a variety of symptoms including diarrhea, dehydration, and bloody stools. A case study was conducted by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the health department across multiple states to determine the source of the outbreak by interviewing patients and parents of the children who were sick. After the study, it was found that there was a high correlation between people
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Muscular Dystrophy Disease diary #2 Today I will be explaining Muscular Dystrophy and all of the types. So let’s start off with what it is. Muscular Dystrophy is an inherited disease that causes muscles to progressively become weaker. In some forms it causes the heart and organs to weaken. Some forms only appear in men but many are in both men and women. There are eight major types of Muscular Dystrophy that I will be explaining next. So let’s move on to see what kind of Dystrophy there is. The
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Before treating a patient for any type of disease, a diagnosis must first be made to establish what exactly needs to be treated. A diagnosis is the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms. The incubation time of Legionnaires’ disease is anywhere between 2-6 days, which is the time that it takes for the symptoms to appear after exposure to the bacteria. The incubation period of Legionnaires’ disease is between 3-6 days. It has been stated that fewer
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Long 1 Meghan Long English 3 18 May 2017 Does Chemotherapy Help or Harm Cancer Patients? This paper will be showing you, the reader, the truth about chemotherapy. It isn't a magic medicine that helps kill cancer like pharmaceutical companies and oncologists want you to think. Chemotherapy is a cancer drug that, although it seems to be the right answer, usually ends up doing more harm than help. Chemotherapy is well known for killing cancer cells, but what most people do not think about is that it
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and not of a horrible disease and lives it has caused. Curing cancer is one of my dreams that I have had all my life for a very long time is to cure cancer. There are so many people in this world that have died from this horrible disease year after year and so many people that have lost their loved ones but there is still no cure. My mission is to become one of the many doctors/researchers to help cure this disease.One of the many reasons why I want to help cure this disease is because I have had
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Behavioral Problem The behavioral problem presented is a refusal for a colposcopy following an abnormal PAP smear from a 22-year-old woman. After missing two appointments, she has expressed that she no longer wants to proceed with the procedure as she fears experiencing pain and the test results. The purpose of using motivational interviewing techniques with this patient is fueled by the importance of follow up from abnormal PAP smear results. High-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) depicts
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happens) information are accessible. The USA Health Society ventures the quantities of (beginning to happen) Liver infection B Cases and passings computed consistently with a specific end goal to learn (or check) the staying liver malady (hepatitis)B disease, on the grounds that this (number of times something happens) and passing information postpones two to five years abaft the true/legitimate year. Dissimilar to the
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smoking is a dangerous bad habit.it contains nicotine.it causes different diseases and damages our brain and lungs.most of the people are addicted it by someone ,specially our teenagers are affect by their friends.every year the number of people are death for this reason and sometimes they are avoided their family,which really shock-able. smoking has a lot of disadvantage .it causes different diseases such as cancer of different part of the body and brain stoke which makes para lashed our body
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because it will benefits all people involved. In the next paragraphs, I will talk about what are the advantages about assisted suicide. First, assisted suicide can release the pain of the dying patient who suffers terribly from the incurable disease. The most well-known method of assisted suicide is Euthanasia. The word “Euthanasia” comes from Greek words, means dying with happiness. In China, Euthanasia means, when the incurable patient nearly dying, suffering with extremely pain for both spiritual
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hope and unwilling to live in this state she has decided to end her life with an overdose of her prescription medication. Marit choose to die with dignity, right which people should have when they figure enough is enough. Exhausted by deadly disease she finds that daily tasks, once done without any effort, are becoming more and more difficult. She complains to her husband that having no energy is the most terrible part of her condition. She is no longer able “to get up and walk around”. Her energy
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