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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...

Cardiomyopathy

number of heart attacks is that heart disease is associated with the wide scale accumulation of gunk in the walls of the arteries ...

Bipolar Disorder

the brain has long been thought to be the cause, but researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abno...

Anorexia: A Lifestyle Choice

as a whole. While these influences are most obvious in terms of teenage girls, they are present as well in regard to teenage boys...

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...

Ovarian Cancer/An Overview

: The precise causes of ovarian cancer remain unknown, but some researchers believe that it has to do with the processes of tissue...

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...

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...

Plague and Hantavirus Animal Diseases

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

News Letter on Heart Disease

for women, but as women get older, their rate of CHD incidence also goes up (Arnaldo, 2004). There are many risk factors associa...

Overview of Existing Research on Nitric Oxide Induced Apoptosis

apoptosis in particular cell types (RCDRG, 2004). "Nitric oxide has been demonstrated to inhibit apoptosis in a number of cell ty...

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...

Memoir: "A Beautiful Mind"

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

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...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

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...

Brain Changes Relating to Alzheimer's Disease

such as Lewy body disease, whereas others are of the opinion that all subtypes are variants of the same standard form of the condi...

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...

Nigeria, AIDS, and the Importance of Education in Prevention

project, we assumed that the nursing journals, most specifically would have a great deal of information about AIDS and Nigeria. Th...

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...

Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

Enhanced External Counter Pulsation Business Plan

HMOs now are listed as the responsible parties for 97 percent of all Americans who have insurance coverage and are not covered thr...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...