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Crohn's Disease - An Extended Definition

and the beginning of the large intestine) accounts for about half of all cases (Thompson, 1993). However, Crohns Disease can also...

Transgenic Genetically Engineered Plant Applications

need to apply harmful pesticides. One of the precepts of transgenetics is that it will better the human condition. Today...

Spinal Tuberculosis Management and Prevention Literature Review

is actually a form of tuberculosis. The story of Alexander Pope is just an anecdote and by no means signifies its origin. Skeleton...

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS - SYMPTOMS, DIAGNOSIS AND LIFE SPAN

This 5-page paper examines the disease of multiple sclerosis, the symptoms, treatment options and other factors. Bibliograpy lists...

Osteoporosis In Elderly Women

in harmony and when they dont, osteoporosis is the result (Kantrowitz, 2007). Bone mineral density is generally measured as a T-s...

Educating a 13-Year Old in the Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

the disorder in the family (Irritable bowel syndrome, 2009). It appears to be especially distressing for children: "Children with ...

Breast Cancer in Women

"uninhibited in her sexual expression, regardless of her prior inclinations" (Thorne and Murray, 2000, p. 142). She will probably ...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Lou Gehrig's Disease

comprised of both a smooth exterior and a tubular inner membrane that establish plate-like double membranes called cristae. Studi...

Type 1 Diabetes

was still excessive (Feltbower, Bodansky, Patterson, et. al., 2008). Not only is the increased threat of death concerning in Type...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

COPD every four minutes (Walsh, 2007). The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute estimates that there are currently 12 million p...

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

Complementary Medicine and Psychology

impact (Kinrys, Coleman and Rothstein, 2009). Passionflower is another plant that has been used since ancient time because of its...

Reducing Recidivism, Lancaster, et al (2011)

fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...

Diagnostic Approaches to Mental Illness

clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...

Kwashiorkor Form of Malnutrition

Mehl? hrschaden (Hait, 2001). The reason it is called the disease of the elder child is due to the fact that the mothers milk is ...

A Dyslexia Overview

and complicated. II. What is Dyslexia? Not too long ago, a committee of the Health Council of the Netherlands met regarding th...

Overview of Pediatric Asthma

would be inhaled corticosteroids. These work very well on pre-school and school aged children alike and the negative side effects...

Description and Diagnostics of Diabetes Mellitus

"a heterogeneous disorder characterized by 2 pathogenic defects, impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. The resultant ...

Overview of Heroin

by one study as 16.3 percent but by 1992 this figure purportedly had dropped to 5.3 percent (McCaffrey, 1998). Markon and...

Language Impairment and Broca Aphasia

or language disorder that prevents them form expressing themselves or limits their ability to understand what other are telling th...

Treatment for Adolescent Anorexia

for understanding the nature of compliance issues with treatment programs like vitamin supplementation and provide a quantitative ...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Drug Ecstasy

to medical science (Ecstasy, 2004). It wasnt until the 1980s that it was first introduced to the "streets" as an illicit drug (Ec...

Asthma and the Human Respiratory System

Many diverse conditions can affect the lung. Asthma is one such condition. Unfortunately, asthma is too often dismissed as an in...

DSM IV Diagnostic Criteria and Treatment of PTSD

after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...

AIDS and HIV

bodily fluids such as semen and blood, usually through sexual contact or the use of dirty needles for injecting drugs, and is not ...

General Overview of Depression

is part of their personality ("All About"). Bipolar disorder, unlike ordinary depression, is when a person swings between periods...

Case Study on Mental Health

that may aid the understanding are those of Erik Erikson and Sigmund Freud. These can be applied to the development of a client to...

Teen Child of an Alcoholic Case Study

sleeping. Don - who was sleeping off his own hangover - mustered what can be termed as an adrenaline rush of energy and after a b...

The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

Bouton, Mineka and Barlow (2001, 4) comment: "Anxiety, an anticipatory emotional state that functions to...