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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...

Alzheimer's Disease and the Role of a Psychologist

and eventually all cognitive function for the person inflicted with the disease (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). While the spec...

Questions on Managed Care Answered

the processes of care and generally utilizes claims data in order to discern rates of service delivery that are, in turn, linked t...

Comprehensive Overview of Diabetes Mellitus

2001, p. 217). Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases that are characterized by high blood sugar (glucose) levels i...

Condom Usage and Prevention of HIV

however, come replete with a number of risk (Hollen, 2004). Many of these risks can be life altering (Hollen, 2004). Some such a...

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...

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 ...

Trade Goods and Their Impacts

This paper points out that cultures can change in unexpected ways just because of our adoption of some seemingly harmless material...

Overview: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

This research paper presents a discussion of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) pathophysiology, treatment and disease progression. F...

A Deadly Epidemic That Lasted Centuries

There are dozens of infectious diseases that have taken the lives of millions and millions of people. Some data back to many centu...

Spina Bifida Overview

This paper presents a comprehensive overview of spina bifida that discusses various aspects of the disease before losing with a br...

The Advent of Aids at the End of the Twentieth Century

for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. First, it should be said that IDS or Immune Deficiency Syndrome is something that is caus...

Hemolytic Disease In Newborn Infants

(Kasprisin et al, 1987; Strauss et al, 2004). It is also possible that during a normal pregnancy there will be a spontaneous trans...

The Role of the Registered Nurse in Educating Teens about STDs/HPV

carry out specific behaviors influences the behaviors in which they engage, their persistence in the face of obstacles, and the ef...

Is Substance Dependence A Physiological Or Psychological Phenomenon?

as a healthcare problem (Gorski, 1996). If it is a physiological condition that is highly likely that this will be classified as a...

The Role of the Registered Nurse in Educating Teens about STDs/HIV

The theory is "rooted in an agentic perspective," meaning that humans are the agents of change in their lives (Pajares, 2004). Peo...

Article Analysis: "Evolution of Infectious Disease"

move through populations of individuals) to consider "how the characteristics that traditional epidemiology has identified to be i...

The Effects of Immobility, Injury, and Aging of Joints

impact on joint function. Typically, fractures are pulled back in place and the injury is immobilized using a plaster cast or som...

Cardiovascular Disease

One of nearly every three women who die are victims of cardiovascular disease, with fourteen percent more women dying of coronary ...

Alcohol in Society

consumption is risky as well (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Food does absorb some of the alcohol. Also, in addition to alcoh...

Discussion of Diabetes Mellitus

damaging kidney function, eyesight and having the very real potential of causing limb amputation. Genetically determined, diabete...

Overview of Taxco, Mexico

in the silver mines. Catholic clergy protested, but to no avail. The agricultural economy suffered, as did much commerce other t...

Understanding Health - Two Approaches

Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...

Disease of Schizophrenia

known to manifest various peculiarities or disorders of thinking and behavior. Correctly speaking, however, these are diseases of ...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...