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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...

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...

Nigeria, AIDS, and the Importance of Education in Prevention

project, we assumed that the nursing journals, most specifically would have a great deal of information about AIDS and Nigeria. Th...

Coronary Artery Disease Prevention and Exercise

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

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...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

Assessiing Chlamydia and Intervention Options

and treatments which are necessitated by the venereal disease Chlamydia. The venereal disease Chlamydia presents a number o...

Overview of Meningococcal Disease

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

Red Genital Lesions and Patient Diagnosis

how it was initiated. This means that contacting partners, or figuring out who might have given one the disease, can become rather...

Clinical Research on Emphysema

behavioral related disease. The various stages of emphysema include the destruction of the air sacs inside of the lungs. This ...

Epidemiology of Tay Sachs Disease

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

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

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...

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 ...

Emergent and Reemergent Infectious Diseases

pathogen (National Institutes of Health, 1999). The most concerning infectious agents are those that are both highly contagious ...

More Negative Than Positive Effects of Anabolic Steroids

with normal hormone production, causing a kind of drug-induced sex change -- men can become feminized, with shrunken testicles and...

Disease and Health

of where health concerns and support lie as they look to different perspectives and input factors. The World Health Organisation ...

News Letter on Heart Disease

for women, but as women get older, their rate of CHD incidence also goes up (Arnaldo, 2004). There are many risk factors associa...

COPD and Rehabilitation

symptoms so that they might seek help at the onset of a respiratory event and to acquaint them with the causes of their condition ...

Case Assessment of Neurological and HEENT Assessment

muscle responses and her muscle strength appeared normal. She complained of pain during assessments of physical condition, but th...

Late Onset Alzheimer's Development Risks and APOE

but questions still remain regarding the accuracy of the argument that the presence of APOE is a substantial predictor for late-on...

Overview of Existing Research on Nitric Oxide Induced Apoptosis

apoptosis in particular cell types (RCDRG, 2004). "Nitric oxide has been demonstrated to inhibit apoptosis in a number of cell ty...

Are Amyloid Plaques the Product or Cause of Alzheimer's?

Research continues to uncover the previously unidentified correlations between amyloid plaques and their role - cause or product o...

An Analysis of Virgil's Depiction of the Tragedy of Dido

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

HVC or Hepatitis C

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