Essays Tagged: "Harvard Medical School"

Sleep Apnea

ntenance (e.g., urinating, etc.).Dr. Quentin Regestein, lead sleep and sleep disorders researcher atHarvard Medical School also believed that sleep kept our distant ancestorsout of harms way during th ... DiseaseJohn P. Dworetzky- Psychology / Fifth EditionDr. Quentin Regestein - lead sleep researcher, Harvard Medical School- Sleep problems and solutionsDr. Scott Mantel - Anesthesiologist- Morton Plan ...

(5 pages) 187 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

"The Fortune Teller" by Kenneth S. Kosik, The Sciences, Jul/Aug 1999, pp.13-17.

neth S. Kosik, The Sciences, Jul/Aug 1999, pp.13-17.Kenneth S. Kosik is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where h ...

(3 pages) 33 0 4.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

Alternative Medicine and its impact on todays medical system.

niques can help patients enormously. "Medicine is a three-legged stool," says Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School. "One leg is pharmaceuticals, the other is surgery, and the third is what peo ...

(10 pages) 453 1 4.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Alternative

Legalising/Decriminalising Marijuana: Analytical Evaluative Essay

both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free", as stated by Lester Grinspoon, an M.D., from the Harvard Medical School.In Australia, there has been a significant amount of attention given to debat ...

(9 pages) 141 0 4.2 Jun/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Bipolar Disease

nds even more serious long-term consequences, it can make people stop using the drug and relapse." (Harvard Mental Health Letter, September 2002, pg.2)I feel that Mr. Smith needs to be counseled on th ... o that we can catch potential problems early and intervene before they become problematic.ReferencesHarvard Medical School (2001). Bipoloar Disorder-Part 1.The Harvard Mental Health Letter, volume 17, ...

(2 pages) 29 1 3.7 Sep/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

A report on intern and Deprived Doctors driving Dangerously Behind the Wheel

Hometown Channel, a internet new service ("Study," 2005). According to this article,"researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have revisited the topic of intern ...

(2 pages) 25 1 2.3 Jan/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Critque Of "A Social Conservative Credo"

rest. Written by Charles Krauthammer, a conservative who studied politics at Oxford and medicine at Harvard Medical School, argues that reforming welfare can not be solved by merely abolishing it. Ins ...

(4 pages) 10 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Anne Of Green Gables

rgeted by tobacco companies that present a "cool" image of smoking. Alvin Poussaint, a professor at Harvard Medical School, calls this "nothing less than an invasion of the hearts and minds of our chi ...

(2 pages) 13 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The Biggest Loser: Children

diet and become dissatisfied with their own body image at a younger and younger age.A study by the Harvard Medical School found that eating disorders in the Pacific island county of Fiji multiplied a ... dia Images of the Impossibly Thin." Flinders University Journal, June (2002).HMS News. 19 May 1999. Harvard Medical School. 20 Aug. 2007 .Wade, T. "Getting Critical of Media Glamour May Starve Off Eat ...

(3 pages) 68 5 5.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

April 28, 1997

ey but there are medicinal uses for this plant also. Lester Grinspoon, who graduated through Harvard Medical School performed studies, and found that marijuana had helped in healing or preventi ...

(5 pages) 1158 0 1.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Atention defficit disorder

d they can begin to use their untapped talent.Dr. Ned Hallowell, an adult and child psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, has written many books on ADD. He says, "People with ADD are highly imaginat ...

(5 pages) 18 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Caffeine

ience a short period of higher blood pressure then they normally have. In an experiment done by the Harvard Medical School in 1990 say that Caffeine has no direct link to infertility either. Nor does ...

(3 pages) 24 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Alice Hamilton (1869-1970)

es.In 1919, Hamilton was hired as assistant professor in a new Department of Industrial Medicine at Harvard Medical School, making her the first woman appointed to the faculty there. A New York Tribun ... faculty there. A New York Tribune article celebrated her appointment with the headline: "A Woman on Harvard Faculty—The Last Citadel Has Fallen—The Sex Has Come Into Its Own," but Hamilton w ...

(2 pages) 1663 0 0.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Alzheimer's Disease

d by Alzheimer's disease is like looking at a battlefield after the war," says Dr. Bruce Yankner, a Harvard Medical School professor. (1) There are seven stages to Alzheimer's: stage one shows normal ...

(7 pages) 58 0 3.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

BSE disease and the prion PrP that causes it.

06, on the Bioinfo Online website, and talks about how researchers at the Whitehead Institute & Harvard Medical School have discovered that the normal form of this prion actually plays a role in a ... ers had recently found that PrP helps to preserve stem cells in blood, so this current team's (from Harvard & Whitehead) research investigated if there was any connection between PrP and brain cel ...

(1 pages) 1412 0 5.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Is Homework Necessary, or Is It Just A Waste Of Time?

to relearn an entire lesson," comments Dr. George Roberts, a renowned psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Roberts does not believe in assigning students enormous amounts of homew ...

(4 pages) 23 0 3.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

Listening to Advice from Health Experts

yearsWhat kind of certification?Andrew Weil received an A.B. degree in biology (botany) from Harvard in 1964 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1968. After completing a medical internsh ...

(3 pages) 11 0 0.0 Jun/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Nature versus Nurture: Foster Homes and Orphanages

r of the Developmental Medicine Center at Children's Hospital Boston and professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School focused on children placed in a Romanian orphanage at birth and then placed i ...

(4 pages) 30 0 4.0 Jul/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Social Anxiety Disorder Research Paper

e if not treated. According to Jordan W. Smoller, M.D., Sc.D., associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School concerning SAD stated "though experts still aren't entirely sure of the cause ...

(5 pages) 16 0 0.0 Jun/2012

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health