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Chagas Disease and Transmission

This research paper discusses Chagas disease and presents an overview that addresses the transmission of the disease during breast...

STDs and Pregnancy

It wreaks its toll on 100,000 pregnancies per year (CDC, 2009). Gonorrhea and Hepatitis B are less common culprits among pregnant...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

a consequence rather than a cause (NursingLink, 2007). There has also been some evidence that the Epstein-Barr virus may cause Ho...

Controlling and Preventing Pandemics

Pathogenic organisms have the potential to radically alter human life. Human beings, like all animals, are both directly...

An Overview of Huntington's Disease

2008, 436). There is no cure for Huntingtons. Genetics The gene for the disease is found on the fourth chromosome (Collins, 19...

Three Stages of Alzheimer's Disease

or not. When an individual suffers from Alzheimers disease, the brain undergoes severe physical changes. Under a microscope...

First Line Therapy for 7 Diseases

Tabatabaee, 2009). Additionally, first-line therapy includes using triple sulfa vaginal cream, as this agent has broad-spectrum an...

Nutritional Diseases Across the Globe

the most basic level. In the developing world, inadequate access to nutrition remains a significant problem. Anemia, for example...

HOW CIRCULATION OPERATES

be compared to a continuously looping freight train whereby deliveries are made on a regular basis without ever coming to a stop o...

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...

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...

Avian Flu: A Student's Perspective

to the human population as well. Interestingly, biotechnology plays both a positive role and a negative role in this potent...

Graves Disease/Proposed Research

variety of immunologic features that are similar to autoimmune hypotheroidism, such as "high serum concentrations of antibodies ag...

Avian Flu 2

include HPAI in a local bird population and contact with another patient with an unexplained repository disease and a positive res...

Memory Deficits Due To Alzheimer's

illustrated how certain aspects such as genetics, disease and environment diversely impact the extent of human memory, with old ag...

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

"Risk Factors For Cardiovascular Disease In Children With Type 1 Diabetes" - Brief Analysis

to occur in someone who has had diabetes for many years" (Federal Citizen Information Center, 2006). Type 1 diabetics walk ...

Sharek, et al (2004)/Low-Income Kids with Asthma

parent report, experienced daily symptoms, 2 asthma attacks per week, persistent cough and were using bronchodilator therapy daily...

Strategic Plan: St. Vincent Health Care

route of accessible health care to growing numbers of Americans. Harvards Clayton Christensen has long preached the gospel ...

The Government Should Provide Support For Stem Cell Research

opportunities like never before; however, that is a separate issue from the overwhelming benefits inherent to cord blood usage and...

DVT and Evidence-Based Practice

breath (King, 2003, p. 24). The factors comprising the triad are "venous stasis, vessel wall damage and coagulation changes" (Van ...

A Good Customer Service Model

to use preventative measures to thwart competition and also to see that the firm stays on course. In order to create a viable an...

Loss Prevention Program for Golf Course Turf Management

the applicator or the general public, however, and some have the ability to damage the turfgrass plants they are meant to protect ...

Quality Improvement/Pressure Ulcers

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

Pros and Cons of QII

of projects is critical to the success elements affecting the Six Sigma program (Antony 3). Prioritization is often based on subje...

Elder Abuse in the United States

sometimes illusive. Generally, the characterization of elder abuse is that it does occur in the United States and while hard to de...

Emergency Response and Fire Prevention Plan

any conditions including total darkness or thick smoke. This requires that the signs have their own backup power systems that wil...

Preventing Falls

Institute as one of the top 100 hospitals in the country, which set the benchmarks for success (Jackson and Gleason 37). St. Clare...

Smoking and Lung Cancer in Women

a Machiavelli. This assertion could be argued in challenging the central premise of this article. In fact, in order for effecti...