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Expansion of Europe and the Resulting Disease and War

the Native American soil, they turned into the very element of persecution from which they escaped; not only did they segregated t...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Heart Disease and Serum Cholesterol

contends that conflicting results occurred in such studies because of "inadequate sample size". The article references the World ...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease

eliminate known risk factors for CAD before the individual develops the symptoms of CAD. These interventions consist of diet, exer...

EU and British Cattle Products

course of preventing panic (and a potential market collapse of commodities) was to ban British beef from the EU. One main ...

An Overview of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

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

Literature Review on Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in Intensive Care Units and th Effects of Improved Oral Care

that inadequate understanding of the impact of oral health in the hospital setting can be evidenced, and Holmes (1996) further con...

Medical Evaluation Steps Regarding Coexisting Conditions and Chest Pain

professional must carefully evaluate this patient using all that is known about each of these conditions. Pain such as that being...

Enzyme Replacement Therapy Modes of Administration

to replace missing or defective enzymes, and some have argued that treatment options can often cause problems that hinder the effe...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

Factors Associated with Schizophrenia

schizophrenia and prevention of schizophrenia, 2004). This is one way in which environmental factors impact mental health. Biolo...

Exploration of Congestive Heart Failure

In seven pages this medical condition is examined in terms of its symptoms and treatment with a consideration of the role depressi...

Condom Usage and Prevention of HIV

however, come replete with a number of risk (Hollen, 2004). Many of these risks can be life altering (Hollen, 2004). Some such a...

The Diverse Disease of Dengue, Plague, Malaria, and the West Nile Virus

malaria first received widespread attention when it began to affect returning servicemen that had contracted the disease while se...

A look at the Herpes Viruses

subfamily have longer reproductive cycles and a more narrow host range. In this group, infected "cells often become enlarged. Lat...

Biopharmaceuticals, Medicine, and the Effects of Deforestation

In five pages the negative impact of deforestation on medicine is examined in a discussion of the destruction of biological materi...

An Emergency Medical Perspective on AIDS

In a paper consisting of six pages AIDS' causes and treatment are considered with particular emphasis upon the minimal risks to he...

Information on Heart Disease

In seven pages this paper contains relevant information on heart disease and includes endocardial disease, myocardium and pericard...

STDs and VD

In five pages this paper discusses venereal disease and other types of sexually transmitted diseases including genital herpes, Hep...

Economic Aspects of Lung Cancer

In six pages lung cancer is examined in terms of treatment, recent developments, and prevention with the emphasis upon the disease...

More Negative Than Positive Effects of Anabolic Steroids

with normal hormone production, causing a kind of drug-induced sex change -- men can become feminized, with shrunken testicles and...

Overview of Mad Cow Disease

In five pages this paper discusses mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy in an etiology overview that includes the 1...

Three Lethal Diseases

consequences. As already mentioned the disease was first identified as a separate disease entity in November 1986 from which time...

Leishmania Donovani Disease Causing Parasite

In nine pages this report examines this disease causing parasite in terms of its geographical spread, symptoms, and course of the ...

Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

In twelve pages this paper discusses Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis in a consideration of the causes, symptoms, and treatm...

Native Americans and the Effects of European Diseases

In ten pages this paper examines America's indigenous population and the impact of the disease the European colonists introduced t...

MS II

In five pages this paper examines multiple sclerosis in a consideration of disease origin, symptoms physiological impact, treatmen...

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...

Disease and Various Factors to be Considered

by severe degeneration of the Central Nervous System, a degeneration which most often manifests prior to the age of three but whic...