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already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...
Without the neurotransmitter dopamine the striatum dries up. Although there are still plenty of reserves of dopamine in the...
that the whole land is "diseased" and "poisoned." Later in that same scene. Antonio predicts that Bosolas "foul melancholy" will "...
etiology of the disease is not well understood, but substantive research suggests that individuals who suffer from ALS have mutati...
The link between behavioral components and risk factors has been a major element in the focus on nursing paradigms and treatment p...
advertising by big businesses that has contributed in a large part to the decline in the health of the average American citizen. ...
has led to decreasing access to health care as greater numbers of individuals lose their health insurance coverage in response to ...
pathogen (National Institutes of Health, 1999). The most concerning infectious agents are those that are both highly contagious ...
and treatments which are necessitated by the venereal disease Chlamydia. The venereal disease Chlamydia presents a number o...
with normal hormone production, causing a kind of drug-induced sex change -- men can become feminized, with shrunken testicles and...
However, as the disease progresses, it may cause a low-grade fever as well as night sweats and fatigue (1996). Also, leukemia may ...
are given the opportunity to buy condoms at greatly reduced prices. Even so, "Only 48% of heterosexuals and 36% of gays claim to ...
In five pages this paper examines the disease that was first discovered in 1969 and containment attempts. Five sources are cited ...
results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...
peripheral vision and eventual blindness, mental retardation, paralysis, and non-responsiveness (National Tay-Sachs and Allied Dis...
and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...
can progress from initial symptoms: "to coma and death as quickly as 12 to 48...
how it was initiated. This means that contacting partners, or figuring out who might have given one the disease, can become rather...
behavioral related disease. The various stages of emphysema include the destruction of the air sacs inside of the lungs. This ...
2002). In addition, dietary practices in Asia are often associated with religious practices and customs (Gifford, 2002). R...
restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...
past three decades (Freeman, 1997), the idea of one vaccine to address three strains of meningitis is nothing short of phenomenal....
epidemic in January 1993 (Center for Disease Control, 1996). By 1996 the outbreak had slowed to only an approximate three hundred...
have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...
condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...
known to manifest various peculiarities or disorders of thinking and behavior. Correctly speaking, however, these are diseases of ...
Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...
is important to consider how the incidence of heart disease can be attributed to a combination of genetics and ones own personal p...
damaging kidney function, eyesight and having the very real potential of causing limb amputation. Genetically determined, diabete...
in the silver mines. Catholic clergy protested, but to no avail. The agricultural economy suffered, as did much commerce other t...