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Health Benefits Of Red Wine

consuming a drink and lower risk of heart disease (Mukamal and Rimm, 2001). That same controversy tends to surround what is refer...

Group Therapy/Heart Patients with Depression

Heart disease is known to have a significant relationship with depression, which can greatly complicate the processes inherent in ...

Periodontal Disease

uncommon for this stage to go unnoticed inasmuch as "there is usually little or no discomfort" (American Academy of Periodontology...

Article Comparison #3: Kerwin, Culhane Speck & Kelm

race, a curious yet wholly damaging component of humanitys broken infrastructure when living harmoniously with ones own kind is an...

Chronic Kidney Disease & HP 2010

this condition is unknown (CKD, 2005). The challenge facing this focus area of HP 2010 is to establish effective programs that wil...

Chicken Pox And Measles: Compare/Contrast

locations where pocks are first detected, however, the entire body is covered in the itchy, red vesicles anywhere from three to fi...

Pathologic Gambling In Parkinson's Disease Patients Using Dopamine Agonist

which dopamine agonists and levodopa therapy works synergistically to provide physical benefits is both grand and far-reaching; th...

Depression And Diabetes: Dietary Choices Of The Elderly And Young Adults

compromised health. Whether diabetes incites depression or is brought about by already-existing depression is a concern that Brow...

What Illness a Tick can Cause

There are a number of different types of ticks, some of which do not cause any prolonged illness but there is one that can cause a...

Respiratory Care/Geriatric Case Study

on nursing care, particularly when considering the psychological factors of this model (Saliba, 2006). Breathing is one of the b...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

A Research Proposal Investigating Travel Health Knowledge of Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Travellers to Developing Counties

This 10 page paper is a research proposal to investigate the level of knowledge of travellers to developing countries concerning d...

Type 1 Diabetes

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

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

About Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

5 years from the onset of symptoms" (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 2008). However a small percentage of victims, perhaps 10%, liv...

Problems Facing Native American Nations

This difference resulted in friction between the peoples of this new nation (and in particular its government) and the Native Amer...

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...

Multicomponent individualized smoking cessation intervention for patients with lung disease

(Townsend, 2000). This study is advantageous in many other ways as well to the nursing educator. It utilizes methodologi...

The Hmong in America: Disease and Health Care

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...

Crohn's Disease - An Extended Definition

and the beginning of the large intestine) accounts for about half of all cases (Thompson, 1993). However, Crohns Disease can also...

Disease Treatment Through Alternative and Holistic Medicine Approaches

approaches that are specifically utilized to improve health, the percentage of Americans relying on CAM jumps to sixty-two percent...

Study Critique on Women and Heart Failure

but the prognostic factors that influence the progression of coronary disease in women has not been intensely investigated and may...

Plague and Hantavirus Animal Diseases

one highly vulnerable to contamination by virtue of dust-carrying particles and surface contamination (Colorado Department of Publ...

Heart Disease and the Role of Cholesterol

cholesterol has been believed to be a correlate in heart disease for several decades. In a February 1990 "American Family Physici...

The Importance of Vaccines

defense response in an attempt to eradicate them. The defense response staged by our immune system includes the productio...

Ethnic Discrepancies Regarding Cases of Asthma

in the prevalence of asthma. Akinbami, Rhodes & Lara (2005) suggest that "many studies have demonstrated that these large disparit...

Three Cancer Diagnostic Tests

surface of the cervix to obtain a sample of cells from it (Bissinger, 2002). The examiner then transfers the collected cell...

Disease and Health

of where health concerns and support lie as they look to different perspectives and input factors. The World Health Organisation ...

AIDS in Africa and the Influence of Culture

the following paper examines AIDS and Africa from a predominantly anthropological perspective, looking at their culture as a means...

Developing World's Problems with Water Contamination

Apalachicola Bay is just one of myriad global bodies of water in grave danger. The fact that raw sewage and toxic chemicals are f...