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The Causes and Impact of Increasing Costs of Healthcare

Third cause of increasing healthcare costs is attributed to the attitude of the public, with the expectation that will diseases wi...

Overview of the Anorexia Eating Disorder

body and thought patterns, and can be triggered by a variety of events (Lucas 5). For example, the stress of starting a new job o...

Anemia

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

Lymphatic Filariasis

The asymptomatic form of the disease, meaning the disease without symptoms, can be diagnosed by the presence of thousands or even ...

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...

DIABETES AND COST INCREASES

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

Ringworm (Overview)

Tinea capitis is ringworm of the scalp (Seebacher, C., Abeck, D. & Brasch, O. et al., 2007). III. Transmission Ringworm is qu...

Comprehensive Discussion of Autism

is demonstrating symptoms (Pasco, 2010). Autism interferes with the normal development of the childs brain, particularly in the ar...

TBI and Students

of an injury. It often occurs due to a hard blow to the head that causes the brain to move and basically crash into the skull. Oth...

Ovarian Cancer Concerns

This 4 page paper gives an explanation of ovarian cancer and it's causes. This paper includes factors that contribute to getting...

Periodontal Disease

with daily brushing and flossing, and regular cleaning by a dentist or dental hygienist" (Periodontal disease, 2007). One exceptio...

Substance Abuse in the Elderly Population

as many addicts often die early. But there are cases when substances are not abused early in life, but get picked up when the indi...

Guillain-Barre Syndrome

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...

Cerebral Palsy

to neuronal function and this function can be impacted by a number of factors not just cerebral palsy. Some individuals suffering...

Urinary Tract Infections

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

Causes of War

causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...

Proteus Vulgaris

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

Type 1 Diabetes

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

Bacterial Meningitis: Overview and Case Study

(Parini, 2001). The term "itis", in turn, is used simply to describe the inflammation. The organisms invade the meninges and, wi...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

The Common Sports Injury of a Sprained Ankle

a step or jumps inadvertently onto an opponents foot with an inverted foot (Lynch, 2002). Often, the foot is plantar flexed when t...

A look at the Herpes Viruses

subfamily have longer reproductive cycles and a more narrow host range. In this group, infected "cells often become enlarged. Lat...

Patients and Diabetes

of condition in terms of importance due the impact on lifestyle and ability to result in death is not treated correctly (King et a...

Cardiomyopathy

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

An ADHD Review

"generalized impulsivity disorder, with the traits of impulsivity manifesting at the motor, emotional, social, and attentional lev...

An Examination of African Sleeping Sickness and its Causes

responsible for the slower moving form (Ghaffar, 2005). It is this slower moving form which predominates in western and central ...

Overview of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

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

Streptococcus Pyogenes

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

Allergies, Stress and Treatment

were never repeated so it cannot be proven conclusively that GMOs were a factor in their allergies (Vartan, 2006). However, tests ...

Congestive Heart Failure

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