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Kidney Failure and Treatment

chronic disease. A medical dictionary, available online at http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com, indicates that the ter...

Impact of Persistent Diseases

As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...

Teaching Patients and Students About Disease

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, including an increase in the number of ...

Politics Morals Religious and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

This paper asks the question of whether the most vociferous members of society are now directing medicine in a way that diverts re...

Heart Disease and African Americans

This research paper focuses on Boynton Beach, Florida and discusses the importance of controlling high blood pressure among its Af...

Trinucleotide Expansion in Huntington's Disease

propensity for apoptotic stress (Hackam, Singaraja, and Wellington, et. al., 1998). In other words, the greater CAG length the sh...

Disease Management Programs/Diabetes & Effectiveness

levels (Rickheim et al 269). Fireman, Barlett and Selby (2004) Over the past decade disease management programs (DMPs) have prol...

Health Promotion Rationale and Coronary Heart Disease

(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...

Evil Disease of Crime Cured in Gorgias by Plato

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

Controlled Study of Gastrooesophageal Reflux Disease in Children and Oral Health

is clear that the issue, as Linnet et al state, merits further investigation. Lazarchik and Filler (1997) point out that dental er...

Tuberculosis, Head Lice, and School Disease

shown to be one of the sources where such harmful bacteria occur. Stemming directly from livestock populations, Mycobacterium par...

A Literature Review of Research on Alzheimer's Disease

neuronal cells (Marx, 2001). Cells consequently die through the process of apoptosis (Marx, 2001). The cells shrink, their DNA...

A Literature Review of Current Research on Alzheimer's Disease

activities like gardening, fitness walking, swimming, reading, and doing crossword puzzles. The connection may be related to the ...

Heart Disease and Gender Differences

heart disease, it is important for health care professionals and the public to be aware of the differences in symptoms and treatme...

Preventing Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program

teens living in non-institutionalized group situations at the time of the 1990 census (US Census Bureau). Figures from the 2000 C...

The Effects of Alzheimer's Disease on Caregivers and Family Members

wandering and incontinence (Anonymous Early Alzheimers Disease, 2002). It has been found that "The earlier the diagnosis, the more...

Case Study of Hyaline Membrane Disease

lung cells and forms a coat on the interior of the tiny alveoli in the lungs where oxygen enters the bloodstream. The coating enab...

Disease and Darkness Imagery in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...

Examination of Huntington's Disease

patient displays. While the propensity for abuse can certainly go either way - from caregiver to patient and vice versa - the ext...

Escherichia coli and Daycare or Summer Camp Disease Control

In six pages daycare or summer camp situations are examined in terms of the effects of the Eschericha coli bacteria with preventio...

College Campuses and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

growing epidemic of STD on campuses around the United States. For instance, a survey at one campus showed that "of a possible 500...

Brain Changes Relating to Alzheimer's Disease

such as Lewy body disease, whereas others are of the opinion that all subtypes are variants of the same standard form of the condi...

Heart Disease Prevention Clinic Led by Nurses

In thirteen pages this paper discusses prevention clinics led by nurses that focus upon myocardial infarction prevention. Twenty ...

CRT Monitors, Effects, and Diseases

In seven pages this report considers the effects of excessive computer use with such health issues as electromagnetic radiation, b...

Planning and Intervention in the Disease Process of Childhood Asthma

In ten pages this report examines childhood asthma in terms of causes and symptoms, planning and intervention possibilities, and a...

Chagas Disease, Sleeping Sickness and the Trypanosomes

In twenty pages this paper discusses Trypanosoma brucei complex and Trypanosoma cruzi in this etiological overview. Fifteen sour...

S.I. McMillen's None of These Diseases

Innes (20001) makes the point that much of the Bibles historical prophesy has come to pass and been documented as predicted. He s...

E. Coli and Strategy of the Centers for Disease Control in the Twenty First Century

In ten pages this paper examines the public health threat posed by e.coli in a consideration of its causes, treatment options, and...

Cultural Anthropology and Alzheimer's Disease

readily be argued that the primary component in determining the various contributions rests almost completely upon mans brain size...

Overview of Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease

In five pages this paper considers PBFD in an overview of the virus and the poultry types it affects. Seven sources are cited in ...