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Threats to American Health/Chronic Disease v. Contagion

people, also indicating that this flu pandemic killed between 40 to 50 million people worldwide (Zimmer and Burke (2009). Feldman ...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

COPD every four minutes (Walsh, 2007). The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute estimates that there are currently 12 million p...

Codebook for Social Research and a Research Prospectus for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

5. Poor INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE CODING Inductive coding, which is represented most by the more open questions regarding t...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

This 25 page paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding CVD in African American patients. Bibliography lists ...

The Hmong in America: Disease and Health Care

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...

Multicomponent individualized smoking cessation intervention for patients with lung disease

(Townsend, 2000). This study is advantageous in many other ways as well to the nursing educator. It utilizes methodologi...

About Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinsons Disease?"). Researchers now think that PD may result from "a combination of genetic susceptibility and exposure to one ...

Why Pharmaceutical Companies Focus On A Disease

potential to make it through to the next step, the Phase 1 human testing trials (Masia, 2008). This is a very healthy small group...

Centers For Disease Control And Prevention

CDC Washington, Office of Chief of Public Health Practice, Office of Health and Safety, Office of Strategy and Innovation, and Off...

Cardiovascular Disease

One of nearly every three women who die are victims of cardiovascular disease, with fourteen percent more women dying of coronary ...

Article Analysis: "Evolution of Infectious Disease"

move through populations of individuals) to consider "how the characteristics that traditional epidemiology has identified to be i...

Hemolytic Disease In Newborn Infants

(Kasprisin et al, 1987; Strauss et al, 2004). It is also possible that during a normal pregnancy there will be a spontaneous trans...

Article Analysis: Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease

flourodeoxyglucose and amyloid ligands" (Chertkow, 2008, p. 316). Other developments in the field include the "recognition of the ...

Diabetes Mellitis and Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans

social factors that influence access to care and the application of preventative strategies in African American populations. Th...

Periodontal Disease

with daily brushing and flossing, and regular cleaning by a dentist or dental hygienist" (Periodontal disease, 2007). One exceptio...

Alzheimer’s Diseases: Causes and Risk Factors

insulin "could affect Ab concentrations in human beings," leading to Alzheimers (Lawrence, 2003). What is Alzheimers? Alzheimers ...

Chronic Disease in China/Article Critique

appropriate to the issues under investigation. The methodology utilized a cross-sectional survey of randomly selected telephone nu...

Notch Protein Linked With Alzhiemer's Disease

level they may experience a major conformational transformation, turning into a type of beta sheet rich tertiary structure which w...

Heart Disease and the Role of Cholesterol

cholesterol has been believed to be a correlate in heart disease for several decades. In a February 1990 "American Family Physici...

Alzheimer's Disease History Overview

November 1906, Alzheimer described eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde (a peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex) - the cli...

Brain Changes Relating to Alzheimer's Disease

such as Lewy body disease, whereas others are of the opinion that all subtypes are variants of the same standard form of the condi...

A Research Proposal Investigating Travel Health Knowledge of Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Travellers to Developing Counties

This 10 page paper is a research proposal to investigate the level of knowledge of travellers to developing countries concerning d...

Plague and Hantavirus Animal Diseases

one highly vulnerable to contamination by virtue of dust-carrying particles and surface contamination (Colorado Department of Publ...

Disease Management Programs/Diabetes & Effectiveness

levels (Rickheim et al 269). Fireman, Barlett and Selby (2004) Over the past decade disease management programs (DMPs) have prol...

Hand Washing Hygiene in Disease Control

asked to touch the groin area of a patient as though they were taking a femoral pulse for a duration of fifteen seconds. The work...

Trinucleotide Expansion in Huntington's Disease

propensity for apoptotic stress (Hackam, Singaraja, and Wellington, et. al., 1998). In other words, the greater CAG length the sh...

Heart Disease Prevention and the Role of a Canadian Nurse

their web site with which this nursing organization is involved. For instance, the AACN promotes a specific cardiovascular health ...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Physiological Causes

Scientists now accept the fact that some individuals have a greater chance of being impacted by Alzheimers disease than others. T...

A Literature Review of Research on Alzheimer's Disease

neuronal cells (Marx, 2001). Cells consequently die through the process of apoptosis (Marx, 2001). The cells shrink, their DNA...

A Literature Review of Current Research on Alzheimer's Disease

activities like gardening, fitness walking, swimming, reading, and doing crossword puzzles. The connection may be related to the ...