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Overview of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

tendons in the passageway becomes irritated and swell (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2006). The result...

Collective Term Known as Dementia

instances that affects both genders of younger age groups (Draper, 2004, p. 82). Etiology Alzheimers disease is age-related, and ...

Alcoholism, A Family Disease

to demonstrate that it is not easy to pinpoint or treat. It affects people from all walks of life. The bum on the street might not...

Arguments in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana for Medical Use

are important issues and deserve attention because they will shape our nations future. Clearly we can build more and more prisons,...

Bacterial Vaginosis

BV is caused by a "lactobacilli depletion" combined with excessive growth of primarily "Gram-negative pathogens" (Lavan, 2005, p. ...

Case Study/ICU Wound Mgmt

(Cardozo, 2003, p. S35). Within a few hours of being admitted to the ICU, Jacks condition was evaluated using the Waterlow risk as...

Carcinoma of the Breast

harming healthy cells, which is a negative side effect of both radiation and chemotherapy (Meisheid, 2005). In 2003, the American...

Outline: Bulimia Nervosa

the eating binge they feel guilty and purge "to rid his or her body of the excess calories" (Wolfe, 2003). In order to be diagnose...

Hydrocodone Abuse

of Schedule III and, thereby, removes many of the usage restrictions. "Vicodin, Lortab--and more than 200 other products that con...

Streptococcus Pyogenes

type of bacterium that causes illness in newborn babies, pregnant women, the elderly, and adults with other illnesses, such as dia...

Rogerian Therapy For HIV Positive Clients

as the patient is the rogerian approach. This can be combined with different approaches to public health, such as the biomedical m...

Controlling Asthma

Surveys suggest there are more asthma patients with uncontrolled asthma than patients themselves think. The Asthma and Allergy Fou...

Proteus Vulgaris

2000, p. 6888). Transmission Proteus is commonly found in such venues as hospitals and long-term care facilities (Gonzalez, 2006)...

Wernicke's Aphasia

and Klima, 2002). In Wernickes aphasia, the damage to the brain is most typically to the temporal lobe (NIDOCD, 2006). It is typic...

Congestive Heart Failure

the kidneys are not capable of disposing "sodium and water" (American Heart Association, 2007); this is what cases the edema (Amer...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

of the condition. In the film, he was so obsessed with germs, he brought plasticware to a diner everyday instead of using ordinary...

Practicum Proposal: PTSD in Women Victims of Violent Crime

diagnosis or believe they do not. PTSD The American Psychiatric Association has specific guidelines for diagnosing PTSD, sp...

Syphilis

it to other men (CDC, 2004). The amount of men who have the disease appears to be 3.5 times higher than women (CDC, 2004)....

How to Treat Hypothermia

cases, victims will not need to go to the hospital anyway. Yet, if the case is severe, the best ting to do is to treat the victim ...

Ovarian Cancer/An Overview

: The precise causes of ovarian cancer remain unknown, but some researchers believe that it has to do with the processes of tissue...

Sex Offenders and the Correctional System

Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...

Paranoid Schizophrenia

not the case that there is a greater likelihood of both twins being afflicted with schizophrenia; often, one twin has it but the o...

Discovery And Historical Development Of Radiation Oncology

This 5 page paper is a PowerPoint presentation on the discovery and history development of radiation oncology. The presentation ou...

Cardiomyopathy

number of heart attacks is that heart disease is associated with the wide scale accumulation of gunk in the walls of the arteries ...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

The American Influence on Saudi Arabia

very different than what American women are used to experiencing. Hence, there had been a fear of Americans because of their liber...

Adolescent Depression : Review Of Articles

more attention needs to be given to the diagnosis and treatment of this illness. Any wide-spread illness is expensive to the patie...

Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome And The Counting Method

upon as wholly overwhelming. II. SUMMARY The individual conjures up a traumatic memory while the therapist counts from ...

Borderline Personality Disorder

reckless driving, overspending, stealing). [Again, not including suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5] (Ame...

2 New Proposed Laws

inspection program" that pertains to "breeders, dealers, kennels and shelters with more than 25 dogs" (Seibel, 2007). Inspections ...