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Heart Disease Prevention and Exercise

information about breast cancer in women has increased and women generally seem worried about the risk and chance of breast cancer...

Mad Cow Disease

of CJD, variant CJD (vCJD). Mad Cow Disease is spread when cows and other ruminants are fed protein of other mammals. Many cattl...

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...

Marijuana versus Prozac in the Treatment of Depression

This 6 page paper discusses the merits of treating depression with marijuana instead of Prozac. The writer argues that using marij...

Nutrition and Heart Disease

to reduce heart disease by many medical and nutritional practitioners for the past 50 years is the very diet that causes it!" He ...

William Close's Novel Ebola

was unconscionable. Little did these religious people know that they would face an insurmountable medical problem. Ebola was on it...

Review of William McNeill's Plagues and Peoples

In five pages this paper discusses disease spread in a political interpretation of this book as it applies to the contemporary wor...

A Leukemia Consideration

broad term. There are four broad categories of Leukemia, but there are subcategories as well. Acute lymphocytic or lymphoblastic ...

Disease Diagnosis and Electron Microscopy

With a turnaround time of two hours to two days after specimen collection, electron microscopy has the potential for forever alter...

History and Effects of Disease

Human beings, like all animals are directly impacted by the ravages of disease. In our modern high-tech world it is...

Amniocentesis and Amniotic Fluid

In five pages this paper discusses the aspects and medical implications of amniotic fluid and amniocentesis during pregnancy in te...

Physiology and Anatomy of Carotid Artery Disease

In ten pages a comprehensive literature review considers the physiology and primary surgical treatments of carotid artery disease ...

A Discussion of Amyloidosis

In five pages the classification, histological diagnosis, and information regarding treatment and possible misdiagnosis of the dis...

Overview of Legionnaire's Disease

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses what hospitals and nursing staff need to know when treating patients suffering from...

Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

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

Overview of Chinese Beliefs

2002). In addition, dietary practices in Asia are often associated with religious practices and customs (Gifford, 2002). R...

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...

The Creation of a Vaccine for AIDS

5 pages and 8 sources. This paper provides an overview of the process by which scientists have pursued a vaccine for HIV/AIDS. T...

Aboriginal People and European Diseases

author notes that "On the night that the Aztecs drove Cortez out of Mexico City, in their retreat the Spaniards left behind an inv...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Sociological and Medical Impacts

results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...

Epidemiology of Tay Sachs Disease

peripheral vision and eventual blindness, mental retardation, paralysis, and non-responsiveness (National Tay-Sachs and Allied Dis...

Overview of Hyperlipidemia Condition

In nine pages this paper presents an overview of the condition known as hyperlipidemia in a consideration of its diagnosis, treatm...

Global Economic Impact of Hoof and Mouth Disease

In six pages this paper discusses hoof and mouth disease in terms of its impact upon the global economy not only in terms of lives...

Wellness, Disease, Health, and Changing Attitudes

In six pages this report considers how wellness, disease, and health attitude perceptions have changed and evolved. Six sources a...

Psychosocial Impact of Diabetic Eye Disease

In ten pages this paper discusses the complications of eye disease and blindness that can frequently accompany diabetes onset and ...