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Emergent and Reemergent Infectious Diseases

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

Clinical Research on Emphysema

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

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...

Assessiing Chlamydia and Intervention Options

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

that the whole land is "diseased" and "poisoned." Later in that same scene. Antonio predicts that Bosolas "foul melancholy" will "...

Relationship Between Growth Factors and Parkinson's Disease

Without the neurotransmitter dopamine the striatum dries up. Although there are still plenty of reserves of dopamine in the...

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...

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 ...

Canadian Health Care System Proposal

feel that another area in which increased immunizations may be called for is in regards to vaccinating against influenza (Sibbald...

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...

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...

An Examination of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

etiology of the disease is not well understood, but substantive research suggests that individuals who suffer from ALS have mutati...

Examination of the Disease Leukemia

However, as the disease progresses, it may cause a low-grade fever as well as night sweats and fatigue (1996). Also, leukemia may ...

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 ...

Overview of Hatha Yoga

In seven pages hatha yoga is presented in an overview that discusses its various uses including management of pain, stress, and di...

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...

Miracle Drugs and Placebo Effect Applications

In five pages the placebo effect and miracle drug concepts are considered in this examination of health inequities, infectious dis...

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 ...

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...