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Information Overview of SIDS

In twelve pages this research paper examines Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in a consideration of occurrence frequency, research fun...

U.S. and the Gulf War Syndrome

In six pages this paper examines what is known as the Persian Gulf Syndrome in a discussion of symptoms, epidemiology, and treatme...

Overview of Pneumonia

or Aspergillus often come in contact with the patient through their inhalation of contaminated aerosols. We now know that an infe...

Overview of Malaria

fact that malaria parasites have built up a tremendous tolerance to the standard drugs administered to fight the disease. The ext...

Causes and Prevention of Hantavirus

in the Bunyaviridae family (Healthlink USA, 2002). Its primary host is rodents and it is through contact with them, or their bodi...

Overview of Fragile X Syndrome

title: Fragile X Syndrome. However, it must be said that the genetic tendency to recombine and repeat in such a exponentia...

Science of Healthcare

In twelve pages the scientific practice of health care is described in a consideration of the relationship between health care and...

A Detailed Examination of Anthrax

the spores and inevitably succumbs to the aftermath. Vaccinations for livestock has proven effective in drastically reducing the ...

Cohort and Case Control Studies

and they must look at the incidence rate, the time that elapses between exposure and manifestation, and things of that nature (Mei...

Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

n.d.). The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) explains that "Ultimately, health promotion activit...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Lou Gehrig's Disease

comprised of both a smooth exterior and a tubular inner membrane that establish plate-like double membranes called cristae. Studi...

IBC Inflammatory Breast Cancer

dose of antibiotics, after which time -- when the indications do not disappear -- further testing in the form of biopsy, ultrasoun...

Global Warming and Global Health

global warming associated with an increase in environmental pollution from greenhouse gases could lead to an expanded range of ano...

Case Study: A Menopausal Woman

yet with the preservation of subjective sexual excitement from non-genital sexual stimuli (Basson and Schultz, 2007, p. 409). Es...

Case Study/Breast Cancer

to replace lost cells or to repair damaged tissue and once this task has been achieved, "proliferation-repressing signals" are act...

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

a consequence rather than a cause (NursingLink, 2007). There has also been some evidence that the Epstein-Barr virus may cause Ho...

Valium Toxicity

History: Valium was discovered by Sternbach of Hoffman La Roche Pharmaceutical--more or less by chance (Ashton, 2005). The origina...

Epidemiology Questions

likelihood of autism to occur and to be noticed. d. To calculate the increase in autism between 1987 and 2002 we need to calculate...

MRSA Infection

a part of the normal flora of human beings and colonizes the anterior nares (Nicolle, 2006). However, it is also a significant pat...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

Epidemiology Journal Entries

cause of the Ebola virus was never determined, other then to say that it was African origin. The reader has to wonder, however, wh...

Australian Nursing Council and Meningococcal Meningitis

The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...

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...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

AIDS

a HIV virus is ready to duplicate it forms long precursor chains of polyproteins which split, under the direction of another enzym...

Overview of Odontogenic Residual Cysts

location, rather than relative to histological characteristics (Goldman, 2004). Periapical cysts are the most common form of odon...

HVC or Hepatitis C

Although certain populations are more prone to the disease, because young people are inordinately affected, this is a problem that...

Schizophrenia as Portrayed in A Beautiful Mind

his mind takes off into schizophrenic delusions. It is only towards the end of the movie that the audience realizes most of these...

Epidemiology of Syphilis

so easily treated in many instances. At least one of the pharmacological treatment mainstays has recently been noted as ineffecti...

Change Theory and Change Management

are transformational change and the classic Lewins change model. Kanter et al.s Ten Commandments for Executing Change The m...