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Anti-hormone therapy has relatively few side effects compared to chemotherapy. Nevertheless, various side effects also occur with this form of therapy. For perimenopause women, the withdrawal of estrogen means that they are suddenly catapulted from “one day to the next” into the menopause and are confronted with the typical symptoms: the absence of the rule,…

Health care is an issue that all Americans will have to face at some point in their lives. In this paper I will talk about how some ideas affect the outcome of this system and its associated costs. In reviewing literature on Obamacare, I will show that is was effective and saved cost for the…

“So, why did you want to be a nurse?” was always a dreaded question for me. I lack an exciting “aha” moment or divine intervention that many nurses report. I never experienced being patient nor did I have a loved one that required a hospitalization. Coming from a family of nurses, discussing the inner workings…

ULM have a total of fifteen sports. For men there is baseball, basketball, cross country, track and field, golf and football. The women sports include basketball, beach volleyball, cross country, golf,  soccer, softball, track and field, tennis and volleyball. University of Louisiana Monroe conference is sunbelt. Some of the schools that ULM football play are…

Abstract This paper is a comprehensive look on medical tattoos, particularly do not resuscitate order (DNR) and No Cardiopulmonary resuscitations (CPR) tattoos. The main objective of this project was to examine and to dissect cases to discover the ethical or legal issues surrounding tattoos for the basis of medical treatment or lack thereof. The principles…

In 2001, college drinking was associated with approximately 600,000 injuries, almost 500,000 instances of unprotected sex, 97,000 sexual assaults, 700,000 physical assaults, and over 1,700 deaths. Furthermore, these statistics are increased for those affiliated with the Greek system. With approximately, nine million students currently members of a sorority or fraternity in the U.S, there is…

Peace is a complex word with definitions that vary depending on its two different aspects – negative and positive. Positive peace is, arguably, the most important and harder of the two to achieve. Positive peace, as defined by John Galtung, is not only the absence of physical war, but also the presence of “desirable states…

Nursing has existed throughout history and has changed drastically from where it has started. In current times nurses are one of the most respected and well-deserved careers to have. They play an important role in the medical field when taking care of patient’s. The first record of nursing was written around 300 AD. During that…

Fast food restaurants are all around us. In urban areas, you can’t go more than two blocks with passing one. What I didn’t realize was how much fast food my generation consumed until I got to high school. Within a three-block radius of my high school there were two pizzerias, three delis, a McDonalds, a…

From the time any child is born they are required to receive vaccinations for a variety of different diseases that are said to potentially save that child’s life. Vaccines that are to prevent diseases such as hepatitis B, tetanus, the flu and more. In many cases, the child grows up and lives a healthy life…