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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...

Type 2 Diabetes

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

Heart Disease, Women, and Health Promotion

average age of just over seventy years of age in women, almost sixty years old in men. Coronary heart disease strikes women two t...

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...

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...

Case Assessment of Neurological and HEENT Assessment

muscle responses and her muscle strength appeared normal. She complained of pain during assessments of physical condition, but th...

Diabetes and Families

CFAM. Structural Assessment Internal Structure The family as it exists today came into being in May 2004 when Joe and Jeann...

Patients and Diabetes

of condition in terms of importance due the impact on lifestyle and ability to result in death is not treated correctly (King et a...

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...

COPD and Rehabilitation

symptoms so that they might seek help at the onset of a respiratory event and to acquaint them with the causes of their condition ...

Late Onset Alzheimer's Development Risks and APOE

but questions still remain regarding the accuracy of the argument that the presence of APOE is a substantial predictor for late-on...

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...

An Examination of African Sleeping Sickness and its Causes

responsible for the slower moving form (Ghaffar, 2005). It is this slower moving form which predominates in western and central ...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Physiological Causes

Scientists now accept the fact that some individuals have a greater chance of being impacted by Alzheimers disease than others. T...

Heart Disease Prevention and the Role of a Canadian Nurse

their web site with which this nursing organization is involved. For instance, the AACN promotes a specific cardiovascular health ...

Has Health Care Been Improved by Managed Care?

receiving additional income for having patients who use less services. As Stone (1997) indicates, she received a healthy bonus che...

The Disease Concept of Alcoholism

Using the term "disability" was okay as well. The old model however would focus on pathology as well as an individuals deficienci...

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...

Contemporary Knowledge of HIV

chromosomes of the affected cell. This duplication process is carried out with the help of an enzymatic reaction controlled by th...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Necessity of Vaccinations for Children

"little or no firsthand knowledge" about the seriousness of childhood diseases (Kimmel et al, 1996). Back in 1993, for example, a ...

Infant Development and Breast Feeding

They are believed to work by enhancing the function of infant T and B cells (Field, 2005). "Neutrophils" are another important pl...

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 ...

Senior Citizens and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Week, 2005). The etiology of the condition revolves around the inflammation and swelling of the synovial membrane as it is invade...

Frequency of Hemodialysis

2% were on home hemodialysis (Freitas, 2002, 167). There are many chronic problems associated with hemodialysis including hyper...

Overview of Human Thermoregulation

two more terms that must be defined if we are to understand thermoregulation in relation to other animals. We typically separate ...

An Examination of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

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

Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

that the whole land is "diseased" and "poisoned." Later in that same scene. Antonio predicts that Bosolas "foul melancholy" will "...