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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...

Spinal Tuberculosis Management and Prevention Literature Review

is actually a form of tuberculosis. The story of Alexander Pope is just an anecdote and by no means signifies its origin. Skeleton...

Plague and Hantavirus Animal Diseases

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

Ethnic Discrepancies Regarding Cases of Asthma

in the prevalence of asthma. Akinbami, Rhodes & Lara (2005) suggest that "many studies have demonstrated that these large disparit...

Three Cancer Diagnostic Tests

surface of the cervix to obtain a sample of cells from it (Bissinger, 2002). The examiner then transfers the collected cell...

Transgenic Genetically Engineered Plant Applications

need to apply harmful pesticides. One of the precepts of transgenetics is that it will better the human condition. Today...

Overview of Rosacea

in other parts of the body (NAIMS/NIH, 2002). Significant Statistics Rosacea appears most commonly in older adults, especially ...

The Importance of Vaccines

defense response in an attempt to eradicate them. The defense response staged by our immune system includes the productio...

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...

Crohn's Disease - An Extended Definition

and the beginning of the large intestine) accounts for about half of all cases (Thompson, 1993). However, Crohns Disease can also...

Disease Treatment Through Alternative and Holistic Medicine Approaches

approaches that are specifically utilized to improve health, the percentage of Americans relying on CAM jumps to sixty-two percent...

Type 2 Diabetes

Kolatkar, 2005). For instance, a lack of exercise and obesity are believed to contribute to diabetes (American Diabetes Associatio...

HVC or Hepatitis C

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

Study Critique on Women and Heart Failure

but the prognostic factors that influence the progression of coronary disease in women has not been intensely investigated and may...

Heart Disease, Women, and Health Promotion

average age of just over seventy years of age in women, almost sixty years old in men. Coronary heart disease strikes women two t...

Developing World's Problems with Water Contamination

Apalachicola Bay is just one of myriad global bodies of water in grave danger. The fact that raw sewage and toxic chemicals are f...

Surgical Procedure Known As Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

the patient engage in more physical activity (Bypass surgery..., 2005). Chronic conditions that can increase the patients risk of ...

Overview of Coronary Artery Disease

known as hardening of the arteries (Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week, 2006). These plaque blockages can be either hard and consol...

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...

Outline: Bulimia Nervosa

the eating binge they feel guilty and purge "to rid his or her body of the excess calories" (Wolfe, 2003). In order to be diagnose...

Monsanto's Restructuring for the Global Market

to capitalize on those ideas. It would prove to be quite sound, however, and even visionary. In order to achieve its broader goa...

Sepsis

origin of the condition include the liver; gall bladder; the kidneys (in conjunction with urinary tract infection); the "bowel (us...

Health Issues Following Hurricane Katrina

warns that anyone with an open wound or any cut, even the slightest should avoid brackish water and even seawater because this a c...

Controlling Asthma

Surveys suggest there are more asthma patients with uncontrolled asthma than patients themselves think. The Asthma and Allergy Fou...

Streptococcus Pyogenes

type of bacterium that causes illness in newborn babies, pregnant women, the elderly, and adults with other illnesses, such as dia...

Proteus Vulgaris

2000, p. 6888). Transmission Proteus is commonly found in such venues as hospitals and long-term care facilities (Gonzalez, 2006)...

Memoir: "A Beautiful Mind"

reach intellectual successes even those of sound minds have difficulty achieving. That Nash realizes such tremendous accomplishme...

The World Pre- And Post-911: Better Or Worse?

British government source said an intercepted message from Pakistan telling the bombers to go now had triggered the arrests" (Lavi...

Nigeria - Health

this country (Hargreaves, 2002). Tuberculosis is another one (Hargreaves, 2002). It has to do with a lack of inoculations against ...