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Aboriginal People and European Diseases

author notes that "On the night that the Aztecs drove Cortez out of Mexico City, in their retreat the Spaniards left behind an inv...

Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...

Overview of Chinese Beliefs

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

Understanding Health - Two Approaches

Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...

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 Heart Disease

and strokes. Heart disease became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940 and 1967 that the W...

Omega Three Fatty Acids Questions

has led to decreasing access to health care as greater numbers of individuals lose their health insurance coverage in response to ...

Overview of Meningococcal Disease

can progress from initial symptoms: "to coma and death as quickly as 12 to 48...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Sociological and Medical Impacts

results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...

Epidemiology of Tay Sachs Disease

peripheral vision and eventual blindness, mental retardation, paralysis, and non-responsiveness (National Tay-Sachs and Allied Dis...

United States and the Implications of Mad Cow Disease

epidemic in January 1993 (Center for Disease Control, 1996). By 1996 the outbreak had slowed to only an approximate three hundred...

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...

Discussion of Bacterial Meningitis

past three decades (Freeman, 1997), the idea of one vaccine to address three strains of meningitis is nothing short of phenomenal....

Relationship Between Cardiovascular Disease Stress and Cardiovascular Reactivity

rest and sleep to the heightened conditions experienced during maximal exercise (Turner, 1994). In other words:...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

Women, Heart Disease, and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

Stress and Cardiovascular Reactivity

on the other hand are the event or situation which leads to certain physiological changes or reactions. Stressors can be ...

Overview of Hyperlipidemia Condition

In nine pages this paper presents an overview of the condition known as hyperlipidemia in a consideration of its diagnosis, treatm...

Global Economic Impact of Hoof and Mouth Disease

In six pages this paper discusses hoof and mouth disease in terms of its impact upon the global economy not only in terms of lives...

Wellness, Disease, Health, and Changing Attitudes

In six pages this report considers how wellness, disease, and health attitude perceptions have changed and evolved. Six sources a...

Amniocentesis and Amniotic Fluid

In five pages this paper discusses the aspects and medical implications of amniotic fluid and amniocentesis during pregnancy in te...

Physiology and Anatomy of Carotid Artery Disease

In ten pages a comprehensive literature review considers the physiology and primary surgical treatments of carotid artery disease ...

A Discussion of Amyloidosis

In five pages the classification, histological diagnosis, and information regarding treatment and possible misdiagnosis of the dis...

Overview of Legionnaire's Disease

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses what hospitals and nursing staff need to know when treating patients suffering from...

Marijuana versus Prozac in the Treatment of Depression

This 6 page paper discusses the merits of treating depression with marijuana instead of Prozac. The writer argues that using marij...

European Disease Brought to North America

In five pages the settlement in North America by the Europeans is examined in terms of the disease the Europeans introduced to the...

An Examination of Borderline Personality Disorder

process works. The job of developing a mathematical equation can be quite complex because there has to be some idea of the nature...

Hormone Replacement Therapy and Breast Cancer

In twenty pages this report discusses the link between breast cancer and postmenopausal estrogen replacement therapy with pros and...

Psychosocial Impact of Diabetic Eye Disease

In ten pages this paper discusses the complications of eye disease and blindness that can frequently accompany diabetes onset and ...

Oral Spirochetes in Dogs

This paper focuses on Treponema denticola, Treponema maltophilum, and Treponemapectinovorum. It also explores the presence or abs...