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Athletic Competitions and Allowing Anabolic Steroids

Today, many young people are experimenting with steroids. A study done by Blue Cross and Blue Shield found that about 1 million a...

Should Animal Testing Continue or Be Stopped?

Imperial Chemical Industries, contends that animal testing, whether one likes it or not, is a legal requirement. Dr. Charles Mayo...

Breast Cancer Treatment Choices

In a paper consisting of eleven pages breast cancer in the U.S. is considered with the primary focus being types of medical treatm...

Acute Care Facility and Polypharmacy Responsibility

is properly prescribed and that the patient is aware of any potential difficulties. First, what is polypharmacy and what are its p...

Overview of the Crack Babies Problem

why they cost the state so much money. If mothers have the babies, and continue to use drugs, these babies who need additional att...

Historical Significance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...

Grief and a Breast Cancer Mastectomy

likely to be sexually active and have many years ahead of them which will need to be faced without one or both breasts. Furthermo...

Book 2 of Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

the American population was not native born American; in the minds of United States citizens, the foreign-born populace -- mostly ...

Contemporary Medicine and the Impact of 'Telemedicine'

as we see advances in the world of telemedicine. INTRODUCTION The literature review of telemedicine articles is based on inform...

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses A History of Women Healers by Ehrenreich and English

that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry anywhere near the same weight as those b...

EDTA Chelation Therapy as an Alternative Treatment Approach

have taken years to develop. The most vocal proponent of the treatment, Elmer M. Cranton, M.D., maintains that the only effective...

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...

Plato's Views on the Ethics of Healthcare

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

Modern Organizations and Nursing Leaders

Medical Center, all of which are included in Clinical Operations. All of these nurses are RNs, and all hold the office of Vice Pr...

Life History and Contributions of Paracelsus

which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals" (The Coelu...

Wound Closure: Vacuum Assisted Closure Therapy (V.A.C.)

a foam dressing, which is placed in the cavity of the wound (Medica, 2000). The other end of the tube is attached to a canister th...

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

Two Journal Articles on Colic

points out possible remedies, such as swaddling and dillwater, which the health care professional could suggest to the parent....

History of U.S. Sexual Harassment Legislation

simple discrimination against women (Wyatt, Background, 2000). One of the bases of their arguments was that the women harassed wer...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

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...

Examination of Gout

1995; Flieger, 1995). The body converts these substances to uric acid through metabolism. Approximately two thirds of the uric a...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Technological and Internet Marvels

procedure rendered a single, poor quality image, however, the efforts of Drs. Raymond Damadian, Larry Minkoff and Michael Goldsmit...

Professional Practice and Research Interview Summary

techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...

Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and France by Lynn Payer

between the patient and physician (technology, caring and values) are always present but may differ in balance. In addition, the r...

Issues of Middle Age and Male Baby Boomers

Clearly, there are many issues which correlate to this particular group, namely a host of health concerns which are becoming more ...

Homeopathy and Latin American Folk Healers

the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. In many countries where modern medicine is trying to gain a foothold...

Global Trade Issues

a replacement this would be a negative impact. The product is used as a guiding tool as well as diagnosis. Here there may be reco...