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Alcoholism in the Film “When a Man Loves a Woman”

the face of her addiction (Simon, 1994). No matter what he does its wrong "because of Alices defensiveness, which perceives concer...

About Bacterial Meningitis

multi-organ failure" (Appold, 2008, p. 56). However, as the bacteria spread into the spinal fluid, which surrounds the brain, the ...

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

Medicalization Of Depression

the symptoms for diagnosing clinical depression. There must be at least five symptoms from the list that have lasted for at least ...

ADHD: A Critique of the Research

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

Pancreatic Cancer

its importance in blood sugar regulation, the pancreas is also critical in digestion. Specialized cells in the pancreas called th...

Case Study/Breast Cancer

to replace lost cells or to repair damaged tissue and once this task has been achieved, "proliferation-repressing signals" are act...

Anorexia Nervosa And Bulimia Nervosa

weight is considered as 85% of the normal weight for that individual as described medically by height and a age. In strict terms i...

About Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinsons Disease?"). Researchers now think that PD may result from "a combination of genetic susceptibility and exposure to one ...

ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

Subclavian Steal Syndrome And Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

bending the ear against the shoulder, or poor posture causing muscle imbalance. In muscle imbalance, some muscles are overused an...

Elder Abuse Among African Americans

verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

Occupational Rehabilitation For A Nurse; A Case Study

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

Paranoia and Schizophrenia

p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...

Ethical Issues/Menopausal Patient

this patient include giving the patient advice and treatment that will improve her overall health and life satisfaction. To sugges...

The Diagnosis of "Ben," Part II

symptoms, which can include diminished or altered sense of smell (Symptoms of a brain injury, 2008). This type of injury also rel...

Job Burnout and Management Response

stress syndrome known as burnout" (Rau-Foster, 2000). Among the symptoms of the condition are physical exhaustion, emotional exhau...

Section Addiction; the Addiction and Contrasting Treatments Using Narrative and Existential Therapy

for one person may be unhealthy for another. A parallel with alcoholism may also be useful, the way one individual used alcohol ma...

How to Treat Hypothermia

cases, victims will not need to go to the hospital anyway. Yet, if the case is severe, the best ting to do is to treat the victim ...

Review of WOMAC Study

a measure of internal consistency. Items in an instrument are considered to have internal consistency, that is, similar constructs...

Cleft Palate

they are considering the impact of nutrition on the condition. They believe that factors causing this condition are both genetic ...

Collective Term Known as Dementia

instances that affects both genders of younger age groups (Draper, 2004, p. 82). Etiology Alzheimers disease is age-related, and ...

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...

Speech Pathology 3 Scenarios

bloomer from a child with expressive language disorder at an early age. There are, however, many speech pathology assessment ins...

Type 2 Diabetes

Kolatkar, 2005). For instance, a lack of exercise and obesity are believed to contribute to diabetes (American Diabetes Associatio...

Examination of Diabetes

causes behind the increased incidence of this disease (Mathur and Shiel, 2003). Experts feel that, in general, the risk for type 2...

Project Proposal on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

literature says concerning developing effective nursing interventions. Progress Report/Presentation Plan The current literature ...

Etiology of OCD

(i.e., taking more than an hour a day) or when they cause marked distress or significant impairment for the individual (Diagnostic...

Case Studies in the Analysis and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders With the Help of Rebecca Shannonhouse's 'Out of Her Mind,' Margery Kempe, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Margery acknowledged she was haunted by images of the Devil in her mind, and that whenever she became ill or anxious, as she was f...

Bacterial Vaginosis

BV is caused by a "lactobacilli depletion" combined with excessive growth of primarily "Gram-negative pathogens" (Lavan, 2005, p. ...