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About Bacterial Meningitis

multi-organ failure" (Appold, 2008, p. 56). However, as the bacteria spread into the spinal fluid, which surrounds the brain, the ...

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Cosmetic Surgery Addiction

physician Enrique Morselli back in 1891 as dysmorphophobia, BDD has been defined as "the fear of having a deformity" (Hunt, Thienh...

Mood Disorder: Case Study

Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...

Pseudologia Phantastica - Pathological Lying

"told lies that were so abnormal and out of proportion that they deserved a special category" (Dike, 2008, p. 67). It was also Del...

Article Reviews On Learning Disabilities

different links only to be brought to lists advertising college programs, books or other products. Returning to the home page, thi...

Genetic Disorder - Breast Cancer

Hecht, 2008). Breast cancer in both men and women is a genetic disorder but it is not necessarily hereditary (U.S. National Librar...

Abruptio Placentae

age, particularly among those women who are under 20 or older than 35; * Maternal uterine fibroids; * Maternal smoking, alcohol us...

Osteoporosis In Elderly Women

in harmony and when they dont, osteoporosis is the result (Kantrowitz, 2007). Bone mineral density is generally measured as a T-s...

Acute Pancreatitis

stools with an oily appearance (Brunson, Bridges, Anderson, Graves, and Schwann, 2009). Pancreatic function is critical, ...

Urinary Tract Infections

An additional complicating factor for women is that, unlike males, they do not have the advantages of prostatic secretions that ac...

Occupational Rehabilitation For A Nurse; A Case Study

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

Subclavian Steal Syndrome And Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

bending the ear against the shoulder, or poor posture causing muscle imbalance. In muscle imbalance, some muscles are overused an...

Proteus Vulgaris

2007). Increased risk to the bacilli is found in patients which have suffered from redcurrant infections, those with urethral inst...

Paranoia and Schizophrenia

p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...

Case Study/Breast Cancer

to replace lost cells or to repair damaged tissue and once this task has been achieved, "proliferation-repressing signals" are act...

Type 1 Diabetes

was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...

Anorexia Nervosa And Bulimia Nervosa

weight is considered as 85% of the normal weight for that individual as described medically by height and a age. In strict terms i...

About Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinsons Disease?"). Researchers now think that PD may result from "a combination of genetic susceptibility and exposure to one ...

ADHD: Causes, Behaviors, Strategies

259). Furthermore, the nature of the classroom environmental and the curriculum can also produce symptoms that mimic those of atte...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

COPD every four minutes (Walsh, 2007). The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute estimates that there are currently 12 million p...

Crime And Youth: How Family Relations Contribute To The Development

Aggressive behavior would not be such a concern in children if it were a natural occurrence for them to outgrow the tendency; howe...

ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

Anemia

name can be traced to an ancient Greek word that translates to mean "without blood". The term "anemia", however, encompasses a va...

Arctic Mining Consultants - Case Study

in the staking, including the amount of brush the men encountered. Furthermore, they were being transported by helicopter to their...

Medicalization Of Depression

the symptoms for diagnosing clinical depression. There must be at least five symptoms from the list that have lasted for at least ...

ADHD: A Critique of the Research

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

Pancreatic Cancer

its importance in blood sugar regulation, the pancreas is also critical in digestion. Specialized cells in the pancreas called th...

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

Section Addiction; the Addiction and Contrasting Treatments Using Narrative and Existential Therapy

for one person may be unhealthy for another. A parallel with alcoholism may also be useful, the way one individual used alcohol ma...

Root Causes Of Recent School Shootings

with an ethical foundation. Out from all the bloodshed and terror of such despicable crimes comes the most obvious of questions: ...