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Treatment Alternatives for Parkinson's Disease

In four pages this paper examines pramipexole, fetal tissue implanting, and posteroventral medial pallidotomy surgery as alternati...

Overview of Parkinson's Disease II

In eight pages this report discusses Parkinson's disease in an overview that includes symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options t...

Native Americans and the Effects of European Diseases

In ten pages this paper examines America's indigenous population and the impact of the disease the European colonists introduced t...

Causes and Types of Amnesia

In twelve pages the types and brain conditions causing amnesia are first discussed with a description of how memory and the brain ...

Role of Neurotransmitters

In six pages this paper examines disease and the role of acetylcholine, serotonin, and dopamine neurotransmitters and also conside...

Onchocerca Volvulus Disease Causing Parasite

In eight pages this disease causing parasite is considered in terms of its frequency, range, epidemiology, symptoms, effects, alon...

Overview of Ebola Hemorrhagic Virus

In ten pages the hemorrhagic virus is examined in terms of its history and how this infectious disease manifests itself. There ar...

Ebola Viral Fever

Ebola hemorrhagic fever becomes visible four to sixteen days after the initial infection. At the beginning, those who have been c...

Overview of Gene Therapy

In seven pages this paper examines how genetic and terminal diseases can be combatted through the use of gene therapy. There is t...

Information on Sickle Cell Anemia

This research paper offers a comprehensive discussion of sickle cell anemia that includes its causes and also the geographic and d...

Epidemiology and Treatment of Sickle Cell Anemia

This research paper describes how sickle cell anemia results from factors pertaining to hemoglobin. The writer describes crises th...

Overview of Heart Disease

and strokes. Heart disease became commonplace. The rate of heart disease increased so sharply between the 1940 and 1967 that the W...

Blodget Case Analysis

a new, inexpensive test, called the Fox test, is now in circulation, and is available to help screen clinic patients. The test cos...

Omega Three Fatty Acids Questions

has led to decreasing access to health care as greater numbers of individuals lose their health insurance coverage in response to ...

Red Genital Lesions and Patient Diagnosis

how it was initiated. This means that contacting partners, or figuring out who might have given one the disease, can become rather...

Clinical Research on Emphysema

behavioral related disease. The various stages of emphysema include the destruction of the air sacs inside of the lungs. This ...

Emergent and Reemergent Infectious Diseases

pathogen (National Institutes of Health, 1999). The most concerning infectious agents are those that are both highly contagious ...

Assessiing Chlamydia and Intervention Options

and treatments which are necessitated by the venereal disease Chlamydia. The venereal disease Chlamydia presents a number o...

More Negative Than Positive Effects of Anabolic Steroids

with normal hormone production, causing a kind of drug-induced sex change -- men can become feminized, with shrunken testicles and...

Examination of the Disease Leukemia

However, as the disease progresses, it may cause a low-grade fever as well as night sweats and fatigue (1996). Also, leukemia may ...

Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...

Disease of Schizophrenia

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

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...

Relationship Between Cardiovascular Disease Stress and Cardiovascular Reactivity

rest and sleep to the heightened conditions experienced during maximal exercise (Turner, 1994). In other words:...

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...

Women, Heart Disease, and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

Discussion of Bacterial Meningitis

past three decades (Freeman, 1997), the idea of one vaccine to address three strains of meningitis is nothing short of phenomenal....

Stress and Cardiovascular Reactivity

on the other hand are the event or situation which leads to certain physiological changes or reactions. Stressors can be ...

United States and the Implications of Mad Cow Disease

epidemic in January 1993 (Center for Disease Control, 1996). By 1996 the outbreak had slowed to only an approximate three hundred...

Environmental Health and Asbestosis

Lung Disease Surveillance Report, 1996). This is true of the UK and the international environment, and is due to the delay between...