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Eating Disorder Health Sciences & Medicine Case Study
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B. Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behavior in order to prevent weight gain'like misuse of laxatives'Bernadine reports that she has "frequently purged herself with laxatives". She also "shoplifts one package at a time" so she won't be detected. C. The binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behavior both occur'at least twice a week.
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Achieving Health Potential Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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This study substantiates the effectiveness of acupressure in preventing post-operative nausea and vomiting, limitations are recognized, because of restrictions on availability of time, personnel and budget. As the subjects were sampled from patients who received general anaesthesia, the generalizations made in this study are limited to this group of patients.
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The United Kingdom Cancer Treatment: Individualized Treatment Plan Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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In the UK, many cancer patients undergo a ‘trial and error’ treatment and dosage adjustment approach. This is very dangerous since some drugs can be fatal to patients who have particular genotypes. Another great challenge is that many regimens have numerous drugs whose toxicities overlap, such as inducing myelosuppression.
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Rationale for Admission in Mc Master University / Masters (M Sc) in Medical Sciences Program Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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I have about 8 years work experience in Civil Hospital, Karachi (Radiology and Blood Bank) and 1.5 years work experience in City Health Department, Karachi and want to enrich this experience by undergoing a professional study of Medical Sciences.
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Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes: A Literature Review Health Sciences & Medicine Dissertation
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The prognosis of patients with cystic fibrosis has shown dramatic improvement over recent years; however, despite these advances, "cystic fibrosis is the most common lethal autosomal recessives disease in whites". As technological advances have been made the quality of life of patients suffering from this debilitating disease is improving.
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Delusional Disorder Health Sciences & Medicine Case Study
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Lyonel has created an illusion around Mary. He believes that she is in love with him and just does not want to tell him. He furthers the delusion by thinking that people on the street are giving him winks to "go ahead" with pursuing her. He also "sees" family members giving him nods and winks to let him know where he is on the right track with this girl.
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Hospital Accreditation Health Sciences & Medicine Assignment
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The author states that the principal focus of all standards developed for the JCAHO is supposed to be on the patient. While the specifics of a standard for a particular performance area may emphasize the clinical or operational aspects of that performance area, the ultimate intent of the performance standard is the outcome for the patient.
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A Comparative Analysis of Single-Use and Reusable Instruments in Podiatry Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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Podiatry is a “field of healthcare devoted to the study and treatment of disorders of the foot, leg a, d hip- also collectively known as the lower extremity.” The terms podiatry and chiropody are often confusingly used to mean the same thing. But Podiatry is actually used in the US while Chiropody is usually adopted in the UK.
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The Reasons Why I Want to Become a Physician Health Sciences & Medicine Article
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My experiences have made me look at myself in a different way and find the truth of who I am. I have found that I am someone who enjoys helping people medically and that it is important for me to work to help people prevent disease while helping those who have contracted chronic diseases live a fuller life. 
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Theatre Nurses Role in Patients Consent for Surgery Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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A patient is required by law to give consent before any surgical (or nonsurgical) procedure can take place.  Consent as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary is to “Express willingness, give permission, agree.” (Concise Oxford Dictionary pg 244). It can be verbal or nonverbal but in a court of the law written/signed consent is usually allowed as valid evidence.
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HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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The paper gives the information about how hard is the life for people who are dying and living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Sharan. It highlights how the international agencies can play their role in helping the transnational pharmaceutical corporations to sustain while selling drugs to these developing nations of Africa.
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Social Policy and Mental Health Practice Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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Current legislation requires that two doctors, one of which must be a psychiatric consultant, and an Approved Social Worker must all be in agreement before a patient/service user can be detained via compulsory admission policies (Unison 2005).  It is imperative that the ASW is placed in a position that he/she is able to work without institutional pressures when making decisions. 
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The Use of Informatics as a Tool of Practice and the Major Issues for Nursing in Its Uptake Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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Changes in healthcare are conditioned by several drivers, major ones are the economic need to control the costs spent on healthcare in an aging community setting at the time when institutional care and technology costs are escalating, increasing consumerism leading to the appearance of the “informed patient”, and innovations in communication technology and the Internet evolution. 
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Prescribing Minors with Emergency Contraception Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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Should minors be prescribed emergency contraception or is it just another avenue to be given that offers the wrong message to teenagers?  According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy, the statistics of this occurrence of teenage pregnancy taking place are staggering, to say the least. 
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Syphilis Pathogen Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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Diagnosing Syphilis can be challenging, because the disease tends to imitate symptoms of many other diseases. The organism that causes Syphilis is a pathogen known as Treponema pallidum. The pathogen is a spirochetal bacterium. Transmission occurs as a result of penetration to the spirochetes through the mucosal membranes and abrasions on the epithelial surfaces (Department of Health).
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Alcohol Addiction and Adolescents Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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The use of alcohol is prevalent among Australian adolescents, and high-risk consumption is a severe and increasing issue. An extensive range of individual, peer, family, school, and community factors have been identified as being possible causes that enable the development of teenage alcohol use and abuse.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder of the Hispanic Female Population Health Sciences & Medicine Research Proposal
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The data of the last twenty-five years suggest that the percentage of diagnosed patients with ADD and ADHD have increased significantly, and it is suspected that this rising trend will continue in the coming years. The Hispanic population within the United States is either socially deprived, illiterate or trapped under immigration laws.
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How Nerves Work Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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The paper "How Nerves Work" gives the detailed information about the whole work of human nerve system. Sensory neurons send signals to the brain or spinal cord from your sense organs and motor neurons send messages from the brain to the muscles. To send the message, neurons make use of electricity.
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What Kind of Diet Leads to a Long and Healthy Life Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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We have our store counters overflowing with all kinds of foods—processed, raw, fortified, dehydrated, vitaminized, enhanced…We have fashion and beauty magazines, health and medical bulletins, Oprah and chat shows, all telling us what we should be eating. And the information overload confuses us. What do we eat? What do we keep off our plates?  
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Properties of Vitamin C and Uses Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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The body requirements need to be fully filled from the diet, through absorption from the gut. Historically, the deficiency of dietary intake can lead to a disease called Scurvy. In the 18th century, the sailors and soldiers who used to be on a ship for a long time and there food was deficient in fruits and vegetables would develop scurvy. 
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Violent Behaviour in a Mental Healthcare System Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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The main elements contained in a qualitative research study include research design, sample choice, data collection, and analysis. The object of this paper is to evaluate how well this research study was conducted in examining its main axioms by using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) as the methodology to estimate the validity and thoroughness of the research study.
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Testicular Pain Health Sciences & Medicine Case Study
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The author states that the subjective in this focused scenario is very lacking in the pertinent information that should be asked from the patient. Since the patient complaints of pain, history of present illness (HPI) should include the severity, onset, and duration of the pain as well as aggravating and relieving factors.
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The Research on the Problem of Downs Syndrome Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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The idiot-imbecile-moron stratification was based largely on levels of language usage: the idiot, mostly mute; the imbecile, limited to a few words for common objects; and the moron, capable of short, focused sentences to express his needs. Currently, severe Down's syndrome is considered to be the result of a major disorder of the central nervous system.
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Trauma Management and Intervention Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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The ominous clutches of trauma hang on gravely into people’s lives. Both those who are directly involved in a traumatic incident and those who responded to the emergency and the caregivers are all tortured and anguished. And even society itself is wronged when random and senseless misfortunes are experienced by those among us who are no more vulnerable than we are.
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Sister Callista Roy's 'Adaptation Theory' Health Sciences & Medicine Book Report/Review
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Adaptation is a popular and long-standing term in nursing. It is used most frequently to capture a central concern of the discipline: an individual's adjustment to an illness, a disability, or health problem.
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Organopathy and Its Relation to Homeopathy Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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The essay examines how organopathy first came about and who were the main contributors to it. It also examines the underlying principles with further analysis of its similarities and contradictions with the principles of homeopathy where homeopathic practitioners are supposed to have also used some in treating patients. Emphasis is further put on the everyday applications of these principles.
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An Exploration in Caring for those with Dementia Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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The style of the research does have a somewhat reflective quality to give emphases to the reality of the mental illness.  There are many things that caregivers can do to make those who have dementia feel more comfortable and of which allow them to still have some independence in the early stages of the illness.
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Bioinformatics in cancer therapy Health Sciences & Medicine Research Proposal
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Bioinformatics uses advanced computing, mathematics, and different technological platforms to physically store, manage, analyze, and understand the data. Currently, researchers use many different tools and platforms to store and analyze the biological data they collect during the course of their research, including data from whole genome sequencing in order to receive useful data for cancer treatment.
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Management of Chronic Pain for Patients With Breast Cancer Health Sciences & Medicine Literature review
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While the use of such drugs may create an addictive effect on patients who tends to abuse it, the documentation is best conducted by the physician himself who serves to warrant its use. The Health Team should work hand in hand in the effective guidance of pain control among patients with chronic pain. 
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The Problem of Mental Retardation in the United States Health Sciences & Medicine Article
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Intellectual disability or formerly known as mental retardation is a generalized disorder characterized by sub-average cognitive functioning and deficiency in two or more adaptive behaviors, mainly manifesting before age of 18 not including severe expectations. These disorders include both a component relating to mental functioning and other correlated with individual skills accommodation in their environment.
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Conduct Disorder and Its Effects on African American Youths Health Sciences & Medicine Assignment
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The author states that in addition to physical, mental and emotional issues typically experienced during adolescence, adolescent African-American males are confronted with unique social and environmental stressors. They frequently cope with racism and its associated stressors including family stressors, educational stressors, and urban stressors.
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Modern-Day Perioperative Practices Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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Conventionally the basic safety issues in a perioperative environment, as well as practices, comprise sterile surgical theaters with corresponding recovery rooms and sterile modern apparatus; surgical asepsis and basic infection control; Management Stages and Apt Medical-surgical staff; checklist and medical record.
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Substance Misuse Treatment Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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The last 50 years have seen significant changes in the ways and methods that are used to treat the client that has entered the substance misuse program. Sociological forces of poverty, racism, sexism and the widespread availability of drugs have mandated that the public apply newer and sounder treatment methods.
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Assisted Peritoneal Dialysis Health Sciences & Medicine Book Report/Review
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Oreopoulos and Blake (2001, 312-315), have decreased the targets for weekly creatinine clearance for low transporters to a more realistic level, an unjustified switching of patients to the HD will come down. these newer guidelines have recognized that lower levels of clearance are adequate in those patients where the kidney output has reduced over time.
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Assessing the Validity of Mandatory Follow-Up Skeletal Surveys Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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Non-accidental injury in children ( for the purpose of this study a child is 2 years of age or less) indicates severe assault and must be identified if present. Radiology plays a crucial role in the diagnosis of the sensitive subject of suspected NAI as records show that 55% of physically abused young children (3 years old) have fractures with 80% of this group being less than 18 months of age.
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Midwives Accountability as an Autonomous Practitioner Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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In the UK midwives work independently or along with other healthcare professionals to best meet the needs of the woman and the family they care for. According to NMC midwives also “work in the community and in stand-alone birth centers...and some have their own businesses on a self-employed basis”.
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Nutrition Epidemiology Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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Asthma and non-asthma individuals were defined based on a survey in a random sample of adults, and usual diet was assessed using a food questionnaire. Primary and secondary exposures of interest were defined and analyses were performed in 1471 individuals.
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Professionalism and Leadership in Healthcare Health Sciences & Medicine Assignment
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The author states that one of the important features in organization design highlight by the above-mentioned author is the use of orientation strategy specifically employed by mostly the health care industry. Most recently it is a fact that because of the current trends and practices implemented in the business practice.
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Endocrine Disorder Acromegaly Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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“Disorders of the endocrine system may be categorized most simply as those involving over production and those involving under production. The hyper/hypo secretion of hormones affect and disturbs the whole balance of the system. Acromegaly arises in a human body when pituitary gland continuously hyper secretes the growth hormone.
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Parental Attitudes to the Immunization of Young Children Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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The recent media hype caused by the congressional hearing that examined the unproven hypothesis that MMR (Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine)causes autism,followed by excessive news coverage on children diagnosed with autism soon after a dose of MMR has only fuelled the already growing concerns of confused parents.(Bruce Gellin,June 2000).
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Basic Anatomy of the Eye and Corneal Abrasion Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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The human eye is the organ that gives us the sense of sight, allowing us to learn more about the world more than with any of the other four senses. The eye allows us to see and interpret the shapes, colors, and dimensions of objects in the world by processing the light they reflect or emit. The eye is able to see in bright light or in dim light, but it cannot see objects when light is absent.
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Population Screening for Cervical Cancer Health Sciences & Medicine Term Paper
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Although more expensive, the main advantage of LBC is that the proportion of inadequate/unusable samples is significantly reduced, thus recall of women for second tests are reduced as well. Results are also obtained quicker. In the sites that have implemented LBC, the proportion of inadequate smears was reduced from 9 percent to about 1 percent. 
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Infection Control in the Radiology Department Health Sciences & Medicine Coursework
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It can be a presentation of the variety of methods and results of academic research of the studies. It targets the inclusion of the related issues that had been conducted which include the importance and effects of washing the hand, the dangers and risks of contracting diseases, and the specific areas of concern that are related to the issue.
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Diabetes and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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Diabetes, both type I and type II, can be considered one of the most important risk factors for the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD), including complications like coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, peripheral arterial disease, cardiomyopathy, heart failure, hypertension, etc (Grundy et al, 1998).
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Reducing the Risk of Perinatally Acquired HIV Infection Health Sciences & Medicine Assignment
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The author states that the primary cause of pediatric HIV infections is the perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). With the advances in medical science, perinatal HIV-1 transmission rates in the United States have decreased strikingly due to an amalgamation of suitable measures taken.
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Theoretical Foundations for Psychiatric Nursing Health Sciences & Medicine Research Paper
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The article, Theoretical Foundations for Psychiatric Nursing, examines the applicability reality therapy in the case analysis of Mr. R who is DSM- IV symptoms and also chronically affected by morbid obesity from childhood. The critique of the reality therapy looks at the non-individualist factors which considerably affects the client’s mental health.
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Brain Dysfunction and Behavior Health Sciences & Medicine Research Paper
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Schizophrenia is a psychic behavioral disorder characterized by typical impairments in the perception and expression of reality with significant social or occupational dysfunction. A person suffering from schizophrenia demonstrates disorganized thinking and experiences delusions or auditory hallucinations. 
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Attitudes towards Physical Activity among South Asian Men with Coronary Heart Disease Health Sciences & Medicine Research Proposal
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This study investigates the attitudes of South Asian men towards lifestyle and exercise habits and the relationship between physical activity in such men and instances of heart diseases. 30 South Asian men within 30-60 years are selected to participate in interviews showing their attitudes towards physical activity and heart disease.
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Childhood Obesity in UK Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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Obesity has been tagged by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the new crisis in public health because of increasing evidence that the condition easily leads to a host of life-threatening diseases like arteriosclerosis, diabetes, cancer, asthma, arthritis, etc. An enormous amount of scientific research has been done on obesity.
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Occupational Therapy in Oncology Health Sciences & Medicine Essay
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This has been used in different groups of patients who have suffered and are still suffering from cancer, stroke, mental retardation, physical disability, and other related matters. Occupational therapists give services providing assistance to people in different occupational activities including self-maintenance.
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