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Tumors of the Brain

Overall, there are two types of brain tumors - these are primary brain tumors that begin in the brain itself, and metastic brain t...

Depression and Assessing the Benefits of Pharmacotherapy and Psychoanalysis

to be a disease of the insane, depression has finally been recognized for the debilitating and emotionally unbalancing illness it ...

A Case History of Angina

of angina, but no indication of muscle damage or clotting (as would be the case in coronary thrombosis). It should also be...

A Lesson Plan For Diabetes Education

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...

Heath Benefits of Aged Garlic Extract

point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...

An Acupuncture Overview

relies on treating pressure points on the hands and feet that correspond to aching parts of a body. The theory behind acup...

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...

The Medical Argument for Legalized Marijuana

to reduce pain remains controversial. A 2001 meta-analysis of 39 clinical studies found that marijuanas was no more effective in...

Questions on Health Care Delivery System in the U.S.

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

The Parish Nurse and Advanced Practice Nursing

issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...

Overview of Eating Disorders

In twenty pages eating disorders are examined in terms of etiology, presentation, treatment, research, and preventive measures wit...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and REBT

The designation "shell shock" was replaced by "combat fatigue" in the Second World...

Overview of Self Mutilation

superficial variety is most common among adolescents. Self-mutilation is commonly the cutting of forearms or wrists, but there ca...

Colonization and 'King Leopold's Ghost'

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

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...

Dementia and Evidence Based Practice

severe behavioural problems, the only viable option for care is within NHS long stay facilities, although there should be wide ran...

Treating a Hispanic Alcohol Abuser

are distinctive patterns of drug and alcohol abuse within the Hispanic population. Overall, Hispanics use alcohol at rates simila...

Drug Ecstasy

to medical science (Ecstasy, 2004). It wasnt until the 1980s that it was first introduced to the "streets" as an illicit drug (Ec...

Comparing Alcohol Abuse in Heterosexuals and Lesbians

alcohol and drugs (McDaniel, 2001, 86). Abuse is a part of the lesbian experience as it is for all areas of society, but...

Pharmacology and Substance Abuse

of Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...

Overview of Behavioral Disorders

Additionally, both disorders can be hereditary, but environment can also play a factor. Both disorders are affective disorders of ...

Growth Factors and Parkinson's Disease

to receptors that are on the surface of nerves (Pressman, 2004). What happens then is that they are transported to the cell body t...

Children and Elective Mutism

condition in which children dont speak because they dont want to (Leung and Kao, 1999). Those with elective mutism will speak when...

Homosexual Reparative and Conversion Therapies

In seven pages causes and possible treatments of homosexuality are considered with a comparative examination of conversion and rep...

An Introduction to Attention Deficit Disorder

In five pages this paper provides an outline of ADD that includes symptoms, causes, diagnostic approaches and tests, treatments, m...

What You Should Know About Prostate Cancer

In twelve pages this research paper examines prostate cancer in a consideration of its symptoms, how it is diagnosed, and availabl...

Overview of Major or Unipolar Depression

In eight pages this major depression overview includes such issues as incidence, its diagnosis and treatment along with a discussi...

Therapy and Dental Phobias

to be completely outdated in dentistry. Indeed, the history of dentistry is gruesome to say the least. Dental fillings have been...

Medicare and Medicaid Costs and the Impacts of Senior Citizen Care, AIDS, and Teen Pregnancy

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how Medicare and Medicaid costs are impacted by senior citizen health care, AIDS treatment a...

All About Insomnia

In seven pages insomnia is examined in an overview that includes DSM IV assessments, symptoms, methods of prevention, and evaluate...