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Hormone Replacement Therapy's Risks and Rewards

hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, has its own risks associated with it (Hormone Replacement Therapy, 2002). Therefore, it is i...

Women and Obesity

to join a health club or try to fit some other structured activity into her already-full schedule, at least not on a long-term bas...

Are Vaccinations Safe?

condition that they do not pursue lawsuits against the companies involved. Considering the sobering fact that a vaccination can ca...

Literature Review on Sexual Orientation and Risk of Suicide

may also contribute to the high suicide rate (Riddle, 1996). While this may be considered a landmark study, other studies have sho...

Examination of Cardiovascular Disease

the current trend toward the modified food pyramid; once top-heavy with animal flesh, the new version touts the combined physical ...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

Safety and Health

also places emphasis on the role of ongoing training and self improvement. Even if we look at commercial models for the way an org...

Overview of Microsporidiosis

AIDS sufferers, with an incidence rate of between 7% - 50% (Lores et al, 2002). However, it is not isolated to this group, the fir...

Information on Investment

- they expect that the value of these instruments will increase over time (Motleyfool.com (b), 2002). Therefore, the basic premise...

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...

Investment Period and the Value of Investment Risk Measurement

Both of these questions gauge an investors reaction to a fluctuating market. If his immediate response to an increase in an inves...

Taking Risks in Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo

in some ways regrettable displacement of the aristocracy from their traditional position" (Horton). In this relatively simple desc...

Protection and Data Risk

exploitation of any potential vulnerabilities that have been discovered in stage 1, the actual hacking, either to gain the inform...

Student Supplied Case Study on Nucor

to this discussion. The company has developed a competive advantage in the way that it employs and manages its staff, with lower t...

Last Minute Death Sentence Commutation by Illinois Governor George Ryan

recent ex-Governor Ryan. This corruption manifested in a number of ways including various arms of corruption within the Chicago p...

Environmental Health and Asbestosis

Lung Disease Surveillance Report, 1996). This is true of the UK and the international environment, and is due to the delay between...

A Vitamin B12 Overview

Whitaker notes that dementia is due to a deficiency of B-12 (1994). Certain populations, other than the elderly, tend to be def...

Alcohol Abuse Among College Students and Risk Factors

fraternity or sorority is already biologically or psychosocially geared toward alcohol abuse, then this simply strikes a match to ...

Canada and Financial Risk

use. In this way however, hedging and conversion means less impact on profits because of volatile exchange rates. Translation ...

Exchange Risk Exposure and International Trade

be a need to determine how to limit or constrain risk. There are several ways this may be undertaken. The first is to trade only i...

Employment Hazards Associated with Being an Electrician

been an electrician for well over thirty years, and has just barely lived to tell about it (Licher, 2000). Of the electricity tha...

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...

Trading Practices, the Barings Group, and Nick Leeson

As he has been pointed out in much of the financial media that has covered this issue, the derivative instruments that ended up ca...

General Information on Cochlear Implant

hearing loss and is successful in children as young as eighteen months. This is true despite some controversy not only due to cul...

Overview of Laparoscopic Surgery

the body and guide the instrument inserted through the other tubes. With these tiny tools, the surgeon can perform minor -- and in...

Project Procurement and Risk

well as a less steep learning curve. Moreover, where there is a competitive advantage linked to that purchase, either directly or ...

Robert Montoya Vineyards and an Investment Analysis Proposal

One particular article contends that cost of capital can be considered a type of commonsense reality check on the return prospects...

Migraines and Stroke Risks

women remains small, however about 15 out of every 100,000 women who experience the aura with their migraines will end up also hav...

Radio Pranks That are Dangerous and/or Illegal

prank acceptable even if it harms others, or is morally wrong, or is illegal? What standards should the radio stations follow? A...

Business Considerations for the Establishment of an Internet Website

mail order, digital television and even fax (OFT, 2003). The main elements of the act is that consumers need to be given informa...