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Epidemiology of Syphilis

so easily treated in many instances. At least one of the pharmacological treatment mainstays has recently been noted as ineffecti...

The Benefits and Detriments of the Kaplan-Meier Method and a Comparison of K-M with the use of Standard Life Tables

with the life table times (cut-points used to define the intervals) taken to be equal to the times of events in the cohort" (Woodw...

Beneficence and A Deadly Deception

This essay pertains to "A Deadly Deception," which is a PBS film that documents the events of the Tuskegee syphilis study, which l...

History of Syphilis

In terms of symptoms, the first evidence of infection will be an ulcer at the site of infection (Syphilis, 2003). The ulcer, or s...

Trifold Brochure on Syphilis

are several ways to contract syphilis: 1. Unprotected sexual contact. 2. Childbirth in which the mother passes the disease to the ...

Tuskegee Study and Medical Ethics

overhauled by Congress after Tuskegee hit the headlines in 1972. Today projects such as Tuskegee are reviewed by a panel of p...

Syphilis and Public Health

This research paper describes Treponema pallidum, a spirochete bacterium that is known to be the causative agent for syphilis. The...

Justice and Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

This essay presents the writer's reflections on justice and the subjects of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, which is detailed in...

Physician Reported Syphilis and Ethics

what serves the greatest number serves the greater good" (London A12), rather than what is favorable for a few. Indeed, this has ...

Mentally Ill Elderly/Syphilis Screening

A 5 page research paper that offers a summary of evidence relating STD incidence in older populations and how whether nor this con...

Unethical Medical Work

were not informed about the true nature of the study, and "deception was used throughout" (Walker, 2009, p. 5). One survivor said,...

Syphilis

it to other men (CDC, 2004). The amount of men who have the disease appears to be 3.5 times higher than women (CDC, 2004)....

Epidemiology & STDs

associations, testing hypotheses, and identifying the causes of health-related states or events" (Merrill and Timmreck, 2006, p. 2...

Epidemiology Journal Entries

cause of the Ebola virus was never determined, other then to say that it was African origin. The reader has to wonder, however, wh...

Epidemiology Questions

likelihood of autism to occur and to be noticed. d. To calculate the increase in autism between 1987 and 2002 we need to calculate...

Epidemiology; Intravenous Drug Users in New York

users were admitted, which made up 0.2% of all the relevant admissions and cocaine users, (no smoked) had 12,876 admissions, makin...

Valium Toxicity

History: Valium was discovered by Sternbach of Hoffman La Roche Pharmaceutical--more or less by chance (Ashton, 2005). The origina...

Global Warming and Global Health

global warming associated with an increase in environmental pollution from greenhouse gases could lead to an expanded range of ano...

Case Study: A Menopausal Woman

yet with the preservation of subjective sexual excitement from non-genital sexual stimuli (Basson and Schultz, 2007, p. 409). Es...

Case Study/Breast Cancer

to replace lost cells or to repair damaged tissue and once this task has been achieved, "proliferation-repressing signals" are act...

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

a consequence rather than a cause (NursingLink, 2007). There has also been some evidence that the Epstein-Barr virus may cause Ho...

Cohort and Case Control Studies

and they must look at the incidence rate, the time that elapses between exposure and manifestation, and things of that nature (Mei...

Overview of Odontogenic Residual Cysts

location, rather than relative to histological characteristics (Goldman, 2004). Periapical cysts are the most common form of odon...

HVC or Hepatitis C

Although certain populations are more prone to the disease, because young people are inordinately affected, this is a problem that...

Schizophrenia as Portrayed in A Beautiful Mind

his mind takes off into schizophrenic delusions. It is only towards the end of the movie that the audience realizes most of these...

Overview of Malaria

fact that malaria parasites have built up a tremendous tolerance to the standard drugs administered to fight the disease. The ext...

Overview of Pneumonia

or Aspergillus often come in contact with the patient through their inhalation of contaminated aerosols. We now know that an infe...

AIDS

a HIV virus is ready to duplicate it forms long precursor chains of polyproteins which split, under the direction of another enzym...

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...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...