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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...

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...

Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

that the whole land is "diseased" and "poisoned." Later in that same scene. Antonio predicts that Bosolas "foul melancholy" will "...

Heard Disease and Psychosocial Factors

a Type A personality, chronic stress, hostility and anger all increase the risk of heart attacks (Harvard Mental Health Letter, Ju...

Canadian Health Care System Proposal

feel that another area in which increased immunizations may be called for is in regards to vaccinating against influenza (Sibbald...

An Examination of a Tool for Aggregate Assessment

Erie, Pennsylvania (Minnis, 2002). As is the case here, the aggregate for which this tool was developed is that of persons over t...

Coronary Artery Disease Prevention and Exercise

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

The Field of Nursing and Issues of Aggregate Introduction and Diagnoses in Health Promotion

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

Relationship Between Growth Factors and Parkinson's Disease

Without the neurotransmitter dopamine the striatum dries up. Although there are still plenty of reserves of dopamine in the...

Overview of Meningococcal Disease

can progress from initial symptoms: "to coma and death as quickly as 12 to 48...

College Campuses and Homosexuality

are given the opportunity to buy condoms at greatly reduced prices. Even so, "Only 48% of heterosexuals and 36% of gays claim to ...

Epidemiological Overview of Lassa Fever

In five pages this paper examines the disease that was first discovered in 1969 and containment attempts. Five sources are cited ...

Modern Society and Heart Disease

advertising by big businesses that has contributed in a large part to the decline in the health of the average American citizen. ...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Comparison Between Reduction of Symptomatic Gallstone Disease and Consumption of Coffee

study relied on the input of professional males such as dentists, veterinarians, optometrists, osteopathic physicians and podiatri...

An Examination of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

etiology of the disease is not well understood, but substantive research suggests that individuals who suffer from ALS have mutati...

Examination of Congestive Heart Failure

The link between behavioral components and risk factors has been a major element in the focus on nursing paradigms and treatment p...

Growth Factors and Parkinson's Disease

to receptors that are on the surface of nerves (Pressman, 2004). What happens then is that they are transported to the cell body t...

Coney Island and Heart Disease Community Proposal

in the general area, but that the population immediately surrounding the church is rather homogeneous. Nearly 29 percent of Coney...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

Nigeria, AIDS, and the Importance of Education in Prevention

project, we assumed that the nursing journals, most specifically would have a great deal of information about AIDS and Nigeria. Th...

Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease

eliminate known risk factors for CAD before the individual develops the symptoms of CAD. These interventions consist of diet, exer...

Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

Enhanced External Counter Pulsation Business Plan

HMOs now are listed as the responsible parties for 97 percent of all Americans who have insurance coverage and are not covered thr...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

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...

Food Hygience Significance and Diseases Borne of Food

numerous strains, each of which results in different symptoms in the infected human. Noninvasive diarrhea results when a person c...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Historical Impacts of the Disease Malaria

in World War II and those serving in the military in Vietnam. We have experienced this disease even more directly, however, right...