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Fibromyalgia, Critique of a Quantitative Study

This research paper presents critique of a quantitative study conducted by Cranford and King (2011). This quantitative study focus...

Diagnosing and Treating Conjunctivitis

This 8 page paper lists the notes for a series of power point slides concerning the problem of bacterial conjunctivitis. This pape...

Communicative Disorders: Stuttering and Dysarthria

This research paper presents an overview of dysarthria and stuttering, which are both communicative disorders. The paper discusses...

Case Study, Congestive Heart Failure

This case study pertains to Mr. P, a congestive heart failure patient, and his wife. The writer relates an approach to care, a tre...

HIV/AIDS Pandemic, How Should It Be Addressed

This research paper pertains to the ongoing debate as to how to address the global pandemic of HIV/AIDS. The writer describes the ...

Mucor Infection, Pneumonia

This research paper presents information relevant to a patient for whom mucor infection has progressed to pneumonia. Lab results a...

PTSD. An Overview

This research paper provides an overview of PTSD as a crisis situation. Treatment and other issues are described. Four pages in le...

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...

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...

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...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Overview of Psychogenic Shock

what accompanies significant pain ("Shock," 2004). From the loss of a loved one to a car accident to the discovery that ones spous...

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 ...

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...

Hemingway, O'Brien, and the Nature of Truth

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at the works of Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien. The treatment of "truth" in a fictio...

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...

Overview of Self Mutilation

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

Overview of OCD

plans in place which have proven themselves useful for normalizing the behavior and thought patterns of OCD individuals. These tr...

Lungs and Manual Hyperinflation

turn affects the shape and space allotted for the heart to function. In domino fashion one system affects the other. Interesti...

Brunei and How Women Are Treated

military action. This to some extent mimics ideals around the world where women are protected from active combat. In the United St...

Hispanics and Drug Use

the problem. B. Reluctance to seek treatment. C. Less belief in positive outcome of treatment. D. Direct confrontation can be coun...

Overview of Conjoined Twins

so that two embryos form, one on either side of the constriction point(Twins 2003). One may deduce from these early studies, then,...

All About Anorexia Nervosa

and height), an intense fear of becoming fat, and (in females) skipped menstrual periods for at least three months" (Grilo, Sinha,...

The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

Bouton, Mineka and Barlow (2001, 4) comment: "Anxiety, an anticipatory emotional state that functions to...

Myelin Regeneration and MS

The cause(s) of multiple sclerosis remain a mystery although experts now say that there is some sort of interplay between the envi...