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Overview of the Cellular Phone Service Industry

had known how to do this, cell phones would have been on the market more than 50 years ago (Mehta, 2004). AT&T even developed a pr...

Type 2 Diabetes

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

Cancer Interventions

care professionals and systems because of previous negative experiences. The literature emphasizes that all women, regardless of...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Vulvovaginal Candidiasis, an Overview

This research paper presents an overview of diagnosis and treatment for vaginitis, focusing specifically on infection caused by vu...

DSM Eliminates Multiaxial System

This essay discusses several issue regarding psychology. It begins with a report that the new DSM does not use a multiaxial system...

Generalized Anxiety Disorder Overview

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at generalized anxiety disorder. Factors associated with diagnosis are examined in some...

Case Study Depression

This is a report of a hypothetical patient who has depressive disorder. The essay discusses symptoms, diagnosis, interventions, an...

Literature Review on Borderline Personality Disorder

order to make a diagnosis of BPD, the client should demonstrate behavior that indicates five or more of these characteristics (Pal...

'Proper' Alternative of Euthanasia

what is tantamount to a death sentence, because of the "uncertain definition of suicide in the context of a terminal illness" (Mar...

Biographical Sketch of Bipolar Disorder

(APA, 2003) and "These rates are consistent across diverse cultures and ethnic groups" (APA, 2003). The rate for bipolar II is abo...

Research on Autism and A Proposal for an Autistic Disorder Workshop

up in practice, and learning about new modalities and new research from experts in the field, conference attendees will leave with...

Borderline Personality Disorder, An Overview

Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) defines borderline personality disorder (BPD) by listing nine diagnostic criteria, which...

Issues Concerning Childhood Depression

the childs life. Children are not simply adults in miniature, as their bodies and organ function are in a continual state of deve...

Effects of Mental Illness

(Smith, 2006). They need to realize they will become tired and frustrated. What family and friends can do to help the patient is...

Influences on Patient Healthcare Service Provider Communication

information being given to the patient by the doctor. Anecdotal evidence from those who were patients at the time remember importa...

ANALYSIS FROM A POPULATION AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC STANDPOINT OF TYPE II DIABETES

of sugar build up in the blood, creating hyperglycemia and high levels of blood glucose. Complications from this disease range fro...

Combining Biological Psychological and Social Factors

This is essay explains a model in clinical psychology called the biopsychosocial model that integrates those three domains in diag...

Bacterial Vaginosis

BV is caused by a "lactobacilli depletion" combined with excessive growth of primarily "Gram-negative pathogens" (Lavan, 2005, p. ...

Medical Imaging

(Medical imaging in cancer care, 2006). Medical imagine detects cancer early when it is "at its most curable stage-and, in many ...

Childhood Obesity

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

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...

ADHD: Legitimate Medical Diagnosis or Socially Constructed Disorder? - Ethical Concerns

and school- or community-level factors associated with receiving a diagnosis of ADHD" According to recent...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

of the condition. In the film, he was so obsessed with germs, he brought plasticware to a diner everyday instead of using ordinary...

Congestive Heart Failure

the kidneys are not capable of disposing "sodium and water" (American Heart Association, 2007); this is what cases the edema (Amer...

Paranoid Schizophrenia

not the case that there is a greater likelihood of both twins being afflicted with schizophrenia; often, one twin has it but the o...

Senior Citizens, Young People, and Suicide

to 14. Considering only adolescents 15 to 19, the suicide rate is "was 8.2 deaths per 100,000 teenagers, including five times as ...

Adult Learners, Motivation, and Curriculum Development

David Kolb (1984) developed what has been deemed a linear processing approach to learning. Kolb (1984) asserted that experiential...

Depression Treatment and William Styron

guilty: difficulty concentrating or making decisions or in the extreme, feeling suicidal" (Nicolson and Clayfield 136). It is inte...

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...