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Clinical Research on Emphysema

behavioral related disease. The various stages of emphysema include the destruction of the air sacs inside of the lungs. This ...

Emergent and Reemergent Infectious Diseases

pathogen (National Institutes of Health, 1999). The most concerning infectious agents are those that are both highly contagious ...

Omega Three Fatty Acids Questions

has led to decreasing access to health care as greater numbers of individuals lose their health insurance coverage in response to ...

Overview of Meningococcal Disease

can progress from initial symptoms: "to coma and death as quickly as 12 to 48...

Overview of Chinese Beliefs

2002). In addition, dietary practices in Asia are often associated with religious practices and customs (Gifford, 2002). R...

Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...

Disease of Schizophrenia

known to manifest various peculiarities or disorders of thinking and behavior. Correctly speaking, however, these are diseases of ...

Understanding Health - Two Approaches

Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...

Aboriginal People and European Diseases

author notes that "On the night that the Aztecs drove Cortez out of Mexico City, in their retreat the Spaniards left behind an inv...

Making a Difference and Breast Cancer

help each other and empowers them to become their own health care advocates" (Anonymous, 2002), all of which requires the shelter ...

Heart Disease Prevention and Exercise

information about breast cancer in women has increased and women generally seem worried about the risk and chance of breast cancer...

Male Health and Understanding Through Biomedical, Psychological, and Sociological Disciplines

is important to consider how the incidence of heart disease can be attributed to a combination of genetics and ones own personal p...

Overview of Taxco, Mexico

in the silver mines. Catholic clergy protested, but to no avail. The agricultural economy suffered, as did much commerce other t...

Discussion of Diabetes Mellitus

damaging kidney function, eyesight and having the very real potential of causing limb amputation. Genetically determined, diabete...

Overview of Heart Disease

and strokes. Heart disease became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940 and 1967 that the W...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

United States and the Implications of Mad Cow Disease

epidemic in January 1993 (Center for Disease Control, 1996). By 1996 the outbreak had slowed to only an approximate three hundred...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Sociological and Medical Impacts

results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...

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...

Women, Heart Disease, and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

Discussion of Bacterial Meningitis

past three decades (Freeman, 1997), the idea of one vaccine to address three strains of meningitis is nothing short of phenomenal....

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

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 ...

Oral Spirochetes in Dogs

This paper focuses on Treponema denticola, Treponema maltophilum, and Treponemapectinovorum. It also explores the presence or abs...

Psychosocial Impact of Diabetic Eye Disease

In ten pages this paper discusses the complications of eye disease and blindness that can frequently accompany diabetes onset and ...

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...

European Disease Brought to North America

In five pages the settlement in North America by the Europeans is examined in terms of the disease the Europeans introduced to the...

Infectious Disease Return in Zaire, Rwanda, India, and the United States

agreement set ambitious goals for the eradication of disease, predicting that even the poorest nations would undergo a health tran...

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...