In present day society‚ a silent pandemic affects countless humans. These diseases are known as sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). STDs typically spread without warning and once the disease is contracted‚ it is impossible to eliminate even with assistance from advance modern medicine. In particular‚ human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) are notorious for their capability to end a person’s way of life. These viral maladies are noted for differing methods of transmission
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Parkinson’s or PD is a disease that attacks the peripheral nervous system around the age of 50 years old. This devastating disease causes the degeneration of the mind and gets worse with time. It is categorized by the loss of basic mobility‚ making daily life a real challenge. It causes most motor skills to go away entirely and leaves a person with a resting tremor‚ akineisa‚ and muscle stiffness. Parkinson’s is incurable but treatment is available to subdue symptoms. It is genetic and may be caused
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as you see them. Author: MARIANA DUMITRIU Tutor: ALAN DAVIDSON Course Code: BOURN1S Bournemouth‚ March 2012 This essay will aim to compile the hypnotherapy approaches in the treatment of the autoimmune diseases. I have a personal interest in this area‚ which prompted me to research this particularly growing medical group. The first chapter will be dedicated to the general medical knowledge about these conditions. The second chapter will refer to the practical
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General Overview of Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an illness that causes changes in the brain‚ primarily affecting memory and other mental abilities. Alzheimer’s is not a normal part of aging‚ it is a disease. Loss of memory is usually the first symptom of the disease. As the disease developments‚ the loss of reasoning ability‚ language‚ decision-making ability‚ judgment and other critical skills make day-to-day living impossible without help from others‚ most often a family member
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Alzheimer’s Disease by: Michael Sang Introduction to Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain. It is first described by the German neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915) in 1905. This disease worsens with advancing age‚ although there is no evidence that it is cause by the aging process. The average life expectancy of a person with the disease is between five and ten years‚ but some patients today can live up to 15 years due to improvements
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Dementia is a term used for over 130 diseases that effect memory‚ behaviour and motor skills. Causes of these diseases may vary but are largely caused by the presence of ’plaques’ and ’tangles’ on the neurons in the brain. Plaques are proteins that the body can no longer break down which causes a build up‚ they get between the neurons and confuses message transmissions. The tangles are the proteins inside neurons that become abnormal. In Korsakoff’s disease long term abuse of alcohol is usually
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DATA TABLES: DISEASE LESSON 1 Lesson 1: Step 1 Population Number Starting Number of Contagious People Sick Days Reported Contagious Contagion Rate Prediction 200 5 60 5 5 Simulation Run 1 600 3 51 0 0 Simulation Run 2 600 3 85 0 1 Simulation Run 3 600 3 28 0 0 Lesson 1: Step 2 Population Number Population Density Starting Number of Contagious People Sick Days Reported Contagious Contagion Rate Prediction 1 (low) 125 Low 5 90 250 1.5 Simulation Run 1 200 Low 3 340 2 1.7 Simulation
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it’s the weekend‚ which means I can finally relax. I told myself that once the weekend comes I need to go get my nails done and finally relax and release all the stress and tension. In my mind a day of relaxation is a day at the salon where you walk in and seem to be all smiles‚ even with knowing that there is the most numbing smell and the extensive and prolonged filing that the nail artists seems to do. So my day began when I walk through the door of the salon I receive a warm welcoming from
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and clean fingernails. We are first introduced to the problem in Act 3 when he says “ I’ve noticed several of you guys have dirty nails. I don’t want to see that. I’m not talking about the length of your nails‚ I’m talking about the cleanliness”(pg 16). This seems like a very out of place and odd thing to be thrown into a work that is so short. That is because these nails stand for so much more. In this instance they stand for cleanliness and keeping your hands clean. As this relates to later in the
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little boy who had a bad temper. The boy basically had the habit of loosing his temper and never sought to resolve the negative impact behind his habit until when his father stepped in. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper‚ he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. At first the boy was disagreed to follow his father’s advice as he didn’t find a problem with his temper. But when people around him started complaining and stepping up against the outcomes
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