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risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...
already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...
Without the neurotransmitter dopamine the striatum dries up. Although there are still plenty of reserves of dopamine in the...
to receptors that are on the surface of nerves (Pressman, 2004). What happens then is that they are transported to the cell body t...
in the general area, but that the population immediately surrounding the church is rather homogeneous. Nearly 29 percent of Coney...
have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...
project, we assumed that the nursing journals, most specifically would have a great deal of information about AIDS and Nigeria. Th...
eliminate known risk factors for CAD before the individual develops the symptoms of CAD. These interventions consist of diet, exer...
are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...
HMOs now are listed as the responsible parties for 97 percent of all Americans who have insurance coverage and are not covered thr...
of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...
the processes of care and generally utilizes claims data in order to discern rates of service delivery that are, in turn, linked t...
and strokes. Heart disease became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940 and 1967 that the W...
has led to decreasing access to health care as greater numbers of individuals lose their health insurance coverage in response to ...
can progress from initial symptoms: "to coma and death as quickly as 12 to 48...
how it was initiated. This means that contacting partners, or figuring out who might have given one the disease, can become rather...
behavioral related disease. The various stages of emphysema include the destruction of the air sacs inside of the lungs. This ...
pathogen (National Institutes of Health, 1999). The most concerning infectious agents are those that are both highly contagious ...
and treatments which are necessitated by the venereal disease Chlamydia. The venereal disease Chlamydia presents a number o...
with normal hormone production, causing a kind of drug-induced sex change -- men can become feminized, with shrunken testicles and...
condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...
known to manifest various peculiarities or disorders of thinking and behavior. Correctly speaking, however, these are diseases of ...
Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...
have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...
restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...
past three decades (Freeman, 1997), the idea of one vaccine to address three strains of meningitis is nothing short of phenomenal....
heart disease, it is important for health care professionals and the public to be aware of the differences in symptoms and treatme...
epidemic in January 1993 (Center for Disease Control, 1996). By 1996 the outbreak had slowed to only an approximate three hundred...
Lung Disease Surveillance Report, 1996). This is true of the UK and the international environment, and is due to the delay between...
results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...