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Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

Sponsorship of the Olympics and Social Issues

main advantage to sponsoring sports events is that the sponsorship can and should be used as a "catalyst for building corporate im...

Importance of Cardiac Action Potential

procedure not simply passive diffusion. Typically the cell membranes in a living organism are selectively permeable. That is the...

Classifications and Treatment of Diabetes

(Wilson, Krakoff, and Gohdes, 1997). Its complications include urinary hypovolemia, electrolyte imbalance and extraordinarily hig...

African Americans in Rural Georgia, Diabetes, and Community Healthcare Planning

can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...

Lexington Diabetes Center Marketing Plan

that individuals learn why they need to control their blood sugar and that exercise multiplies the effectiveness of dietary contro...

Why Pharmaceutical Companies Focus On A Disease

potential to make it through to the next step, the Phase 1 human testing trials (Masia, 2008). This is a very healthy small group...

Diabetes Mellitus: Causes, Effects and Treatment

impacts and treatments. Diabetes is caused by imbalances in glucose levels. Rapid fluctuations of glucose levels can resul...

Cultural Considerations for a Home-Bound African American Patient

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

Nutrition And Diabetes

coupled complex carbohydrates from grains, fruits and vegetables comprise the optimum diet for a diabetic. Choosing the appropria...

Three Articles on Issues Involving High Acuity Nursing Reviewed

may have produced the desired results, the issue of promoting healing in extremities is one that is difficult at best (Wound Care ...

Discussion of Diabetes Mellitus

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

Population Impact of Diabetes

2001). Type 1 DM is often referred to as childhood diabetes, because the onset occurs in people under the age of 30 years of age ...

Nursing Diabetes Patient Education Internet Websites

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

Diabetes and Families

CFAM. Structural Assessment Internal Structure The family as it exists today came into being in May 2004 when Joe and Jeann...

Marketing Analysis of the Joslin Diabetes Center

pregnancy management related to diabetes and a full range of endocrine services ("LM Hospital," 2005). Other services include var...

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...

Hispanics and Diabetes Management

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

Increasing Spending to Hold Down Costs

decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...

Reviews of 8 Diabetes Education Articles

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

Program Proposal for Diabetes Education

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

Life Effects of Insulin

would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...

Facts About Nutrition and Diabetes

detail. It states that "sucrose and sucrose-containing foods" must be substituted on a gram-for-gram basis with other carbohydrate...

Type I Diabetes' Biochemistry

islet cells located in the pancreas (2005). Other endocrine autoimmunities are associated with this type, such as Addison disease ...

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...

Overview of Type Two Diabetes Mellitus

This overview of diabetes mellitus, type two, defines the disease, discusses the importance of diet and exercise and presents a de...

Older Adult, Health Assessment

This research paper presents the health assessment of an older adult who has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and asthma. Five ...

DEPS-R Speaker Notes

This research paper presents speaker notes that pertain to a PowerPoint presentation (khdeps-r2.ppt). It describes the significanc...

Case Management, Leininger's Theory

This case management paper pertains to a Hispanic man with type 2 diabetes and draws upon Madeleine Leininger's Cultural Care Dive...

Diabetes Patient Education

In a paper of five pages, the author provides a narrative review of an educational meeting on improving diabetes management throug...