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Overview of Chinese Beliefs

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

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...

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 ...

An Examination of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

etiology of the disease is not well understood, but substantive research suggests that individuals who suffer from ALS have mutati...

Examination of Congestive Heart Failure

The link between behavioral components and risk factors has been a major element in the focus on nursing paradigms and treatment p...

Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

that the whole land is "diseased" and "poisoned." Later in that same scene. Antonio predicts that Bosolas "foul melancholy" will "...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Modern Society and Heart Disease

advertising by big businesses that has contributed in a large part to the decline in the health of the average American citizen. ...

Comparison Between Reduction of Symptomatic Gallstone Disease and Consumption of Coffee

study relied on the input of professional males such as dentists, veterinarians, optometrists, osteopathic physicians and podiatri...

Epidemiological Overview of Lassa Fever

In five pages this paper examines the disease that was first discovered in 1969 and containment attempts. Five sources are cited ...

College Campuses and Homosexuality

are given the opportunity to buy condoms at greatly reduced prices. Even so, "Only 48% of heterosexuals and 36% of gays claim to ...

Heard Disease and Psychosocial Factors

a Type A personality, chronic stress, hostility and anger all increase the risk of heart attacks (Harvard Mental Health Letter, Ju...

Canadian Health Care System Proposal

feel that another area in which increased immunizations may be called for is in regards to vaccinating against influenza (Sibbald...

An Examination of a Tool for Aggregate Assessment

Erie, Pennsylvania (Minnis, 2002). As is the case here, the aggregate for which this tool was developed is that of persons over t...

Relationship Between Growth Factors and Parkinson's Disease

Without the neurotransmitter dopamine the striatum dries up. Although there are still plenty of reserves of dopamine in the...

Growth Factors and Parkinson's Disease

to receptors that are on the surface of nerves (Pressman, 2004). What happens then is that they are transported to the cell body t...

Coney Island and Heart Disease Community Proposal

in the general area, but that the population immediately surrounding the church is rather homogeneous. Nearly 29 percent of Coney...

Contemporary Knowledge of HIV

chromosomes of the affected cell. This duplication process is carried out with the help of an enzymatic reaction controlled by th...

The Diverse Disease of Dengue, Plague, Malaria, and the West Nile Virus

malaria first received widespread attention when it began to affect returning servicemen that had contracted the disease while se...

The Disease Concept of Alcoholism

Using the term "disability" was okay as well. The old model however would focus on pathology as well as an individuals deficienci...

Overview of Human Thermoregulation

two more terms that must be defined if we are to understand thermoregulation in relation to other animals. We typically separate ...

Senior Citizens and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Week, 2005). The etiology of the condition revolves around the inflammation and swelling of the synovial membrane as it is invade...

Frequency of Hemodialysis

2% were on home hemodialysis (Freitas, 2002, 167). There are many chronic problems associated with hemodialysis including hyper...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

Questions on Managed Care Answered

the processes of care and generally utilizes claims data in order to discern rates of service delivery that are, in turn, linked t...

Food Hygience Significance and Diseases Borne of Food

numerous strains, each of which results in different symptoms in the infected human. Noninvasive diarrhea results when a person c...

Enhanced External Counter Pulsation Business Plan

HMOs now are listed as the responsible parties for 97 percent of all Americans who have insurance coverage and are not covered thr...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Historical Impacts of the Disease Malaria

in World War II and those serving in the military in Vietnam. We have experienced this disease even more directly, however, right...