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An Overview of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

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

Literature Review on Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in Intensive Care Units and th Effects of Improved Oral Care

that inadequate understanding of the impact of oral health in the hospital setting can be evidenced, and Holmes (1996) further con...

EU and British Cattle Products

course of preventing panic (and a potential market collapse of commodities) was to ban British beef from the EU. One main ...

Infectious Disease Control and Precautions That Are Standard Based

are theoretically viable, but there is actually no evidence to support the claim that UPs will actually reduce the number of expos...

Disease and Various Factors to be Considered

by severe degeneration of the Central Nervous System, a degeneration which most often manifests prior to the age of three but whic...

Case Study Analysis of Disease and Heredity

which would have put him at greater risk for dying of heart disease, regardless of his genetic makeup. Smoking is considered the ...

Chagas Disease and Transmission

This research paper discusses Chagas disease and presents an overview that addresses the transmission of the disease during breast...

Case Study of Renal Failure

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at kidney disease. Various aspects of the disease are examined through a case study. Pa...

Positive and Negative Health Screening

This 5 page paper gives an overview of disease screening. This paper gives various examples of disease screening, some positive an...

Health Data Interactive and the National Center for Health Statistics

This paper explores human longevity as pictured by government statistics. Why is human longevity increasing at the same time dise...

Pertussis Rises Again

By the 1970s, the country believed that scientists had finally controlled the spread of major diseases like whooping cough, also k...

Law of Quebec and Fibromyalgia

The following discussion will examine how fibromyalgia cases are handled under Quebec law, and what options are open to the Quebec...

Mad Cow Disease Variant Cruetzfeldt-Jakob (vCJD) (Mad Cow Disease)

(2001). In general, symptoms progress to problems with walking and muscle coordination as well as forgetfulness and memory disturb...

Feared Regional Diseases of South America's Chagas' Disease, Asia's Cholera, and Africa's Malaria

by which a person can be infected is from food or water contaminated by bacteria from the stools of cholera patients (Abramowicz P...

Medieval China and Disease's 'Positive' Impacts

In six pages this research paper discusses how the population of medieval China actually benefited from disease in this considerat...

Lyme Disease A Tick Born Disease

all of which are known commonly as deer ticks. The bacterias common reservoir is rodents. Immature ticks in particular are commo...

Reevaluation of Heart Disease's Causative Factors

In eight pages this paper examines current research pertaining to heart disease in a consideration of molecular, bacterial, and vu...

E-Health: Policies And Procedures To Protect Consumer Confidentiality

which is where the AIDS population appears to lose its right to privacy. Schmidt (2005) notes that more currently, the Kennedy-Ka...

California State Department Of Mental Health: Infant Preschool Family Mental Health Initiative Delivery Of Services

of linking to other programs that also serve very young children and their families, and tertiary (indicated) prevention, or clini...

U.S. Health Care System

care system. In 2004, Dr. David Brailer, pursuant to an presidential executive order, announced the Strategic Plan for Health Inf...

Affordable Healthcare in Australia

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

Depression: A Deeper Understanding

have a drastically smaller volume of a section of the left PFC that sits behind the bridge of the nose. In some cases this sectio...

Health Care Interdisciplinary Teams

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...

Diets: Choices, Healthier Lifestyle, Disease & Popularity

staple of ones regular diet, the body manifests the high sodium and fat, excess calories and empty carbohydrates in such negative ...

McKesson (An Overview)

also helps to prevent medication errors through other methods such as bar coding and scanning ("About Us," 2008). This is a firm t...

A Critique of the 2006 - 2011 Indian Health Service Strategic Plan

the management of health care programs that affect them. The 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan not only focuses on performance of ...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

Periodontal Disease

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

The Relationship Between Culture, Health And Illness In Singapore

level of education, the impact of traditional culture is also highly influential. The concepts of health are based on the cultural...

Stress and Health

run away. There is an increase in adrenaline and a condition of high stress that allows the individual, or the animal, to have the...