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Overview of Medical Photography

In ten pages this paper examines how the medical profession utilizes photography in a consideration of its applications to diagnos...

Incidences of Prostate Cancer

are about 50 percent more likely than white men to get this kind of cancer. Black men also have the highest mortality rate from pr...

A Discussion of Amyloidosis

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

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 ...

Pediatric Patient Catheterization

Sometimes just the opposite can occur and the bladder does not empty like it should, if at all. Other problems that seem to be ass...

Overview of Leukemia

children (Steen and Mirro 14). This suggests different causes of adult and childhood cancer, something that could in fact be a s...

A Detailed Examination of Anthrax

the spores and inevitably succumbs to the aftermath. Vaccinations for livestock has proven effective in drastically reducing the ...

A Leukemia Consideration

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

Health Overview of High Blood Pressure

is the number one killer in the United States (Sullivan and Sullivan, 1997). When death does not occur, coronary disease has nume...

Children and Meningitis

sets in (which is actually blood poisoning) that a rash, not unlike that, that one might get from an acute case of poison ivy or p...

Consideration of Bipolar Disorder

used to describe common patterns within bipolar disorder such as bipolar I disorder where a person may experience manic or mixed e...

Urinary Tract Infections and Nursing Diagnosis

disappear and remain at bay for a long while. The symptoms that the patient exhibits as well as physical examination are consiste...

Overview of Meningitis

to all children as part of their routine immunizations have reduced the occurrence of invasive disease due to H. influenzae. To...

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...

Overview of Congestive Heart Failure

primary function is to "pump blood coming into the ventricles from the lower pressure venous system against the higher pressure ar...

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...

Examination of Gout

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

Overview of Malaria

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

Pathology and Treatment of Liver Cancer

Cancer, 2003). Of course the disease is serious, but it is potentially curable with the surgical intervention not accessible to m...

Overview of Macula Degeneration

As a result, the central vision deteriorates (Overview of Macular Degeneration, 2003). The...

A Critique on a Research Project Article

it represented a quantitative approach, which begins with an idea that is usually articulated as a hypothesis. From there, throug...

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...

Literature Review on Borderline Personality Disorder

order to make a diagnosis of BPD, the client should demonstrate behavior that indicates five or more of these characteristics (Pal...

Biographical Sketch of Bipolar Disorder

(APA, 2003) and "These rates are consistent across diverse cultures and ethnic groups" (APA, 2003). The rate for bipolar II is abo...

Epidemiology of Syphilis

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

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...

Overview of Coronary Artery Disease

known as hardening of the arteries (Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week, 2006). These plaque blockages can be either hard and consol...

Cancer Interventions

care professionals and systems because of previous negative experiences. The literature emphasizes that all women, regardless of...

High Heels and Resulting Medical Problems

wear heels? It can result in a neuroma, leading to affected areas often between the third and fourth metatarsals (Christiansen, 20...

Overview of Sinusitis

whatever substances that have become trapped in it) toward openings known as ostia, which lead to a passageway in the back of the ...