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Contagious Diseases and Periodontitis

In eight pages this paper examines whether or not periodontitis can be passed among family members. Twelve sources are cited in t...

Hepatitis and the Impact of the Disease on Emergency Medical Workers

Hepatitis and the dilemmas created for emergency health care workers are discussed. Infection control is also a part of the resear...

Is Alcoholism a Disease or a Sin?

In a paper consisting of twenty six pages the sinful aspects of alcoholism that manifest themselves physically and genetically are...

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 ...

Tuberculosis, Head Lice, and School Disease

shown to be one of the sources where such harmful bacteria occur. Stemming directly from livestock populations, Mycobacterium par...

Controlled Study of Gastrooesophageal Reflux Disease in Children and Oral Health

is clear that the issue, as Linnet et al state, merits further investigation. Lazarchik and Filler (1997) point out that dental er...

The Physical and Mental Disease Known as Anorexia

In five pages the attributes of anorexia both physical and mental are discussed and include cause and treatment descriptions and a...

Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sex Education, and High School

In ten pages this paper examines high school sex education programs and their impact upon incidences of STDs and teen pregnancies....

Disease and Sigmund Freud

In seven pages this paper discusses mental illness from the perspective of Sigmund Freud. Six sources are cited in the bibliograp...

An Overview of Alzheimer's Disease

In a paper consisting of five pages the brain changes, symptoms, incidence, coping, and expressed feelings by loved ones and patie...

Overview of Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease

In five pages this paper considers PBFD in an overview of the virus and the poultry types it affects. Seven sources are cited in ...

Alzheimer's Disease

("Three stages," 2011, p. 1465). Mild cognitive impairment characterizes the second stage of AD ("Three stages," 2011). The thre...

New Methodologies in Treating Skeletal Injury and Disease

Upper extremity injuries can result in tremendous pain and physical impairment. Treatment approaches vary substantially according...

Pscyhology and Disease

Organization of Behavior, Canadian psychologist Donald O. Hebb established the first comprehensive theory of brain capacity for in...

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...

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...

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...

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

Addressing Poverty And Disease (HIV/AIDS) Problems In South Africa

importance in the fight against AIDS/HIV by utilizing the force inherent to their extended reach into the population. "Journalist...

The Role of Nutrition in Treating Celiac Disease

Although celiac disease cannot be cured, it can be controlled with the elimination of the causative glutens from the diet. Those ...

Epidemiology And Infectious Disease Prevention: West Nile Virus

individual who had West Nile virus (Altman, 2002). The disease, which spreads by a bite from an infected mosquito, can be inflict...

Digestive Health: Dietary Choices in Celiac Disease

in wheat, barley, and rye, however, are typically the culprit in aggravating celiac disease (See and Murray, 2006). In some case...

The Effects of Alzheimer's Disease on Caregivers and Family Members

wandering and incontinence (Anonymous Early Alzheimers Disease, 2002). It has been found that "The earlier the diagnosis, the more...

College Campuses and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

growing epidemic of STD on campuses around the United States. For instance, a survey at one campus showed that "of a possible 500...

Disease and Darkness Imagery in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...

Examination of Huntington's Disease

patient displays. While the propensity for abuse can certainly go either way - from caregiver to patient and vice versa - the ext...

Preventing Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program

teens living in non-institutionalized group situations at the time of the 1990 census (US Census Bureau). Figures from the 2000 C...

Case Study of Hyaline Membrane Disease

lung cells and forms a coat on the interior of the tiny alveoli in the lungs where oxygen enters the bloodstream. The coating enab...