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Evaluations of Biopsychosocial and Biomedical Health Models

true medical condition. The approach is taken even further by Thomas Szasz where any mental condition is not seen as a true medi...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Senior Citizens and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Week, 2005). The etiology of the condition revolves around the inflammation and swelling of the synovial membrane as it is invade...

Frequency of Hemodialysis

2% were on home hemodialysis (Freitas, 2002, 167). There are many chronic problems associated with hemodialysis including hyper...

Substance Abuse, The Role of Outpatient Clinics

to their addiction (Excerpt from the BSW, 2004). Addicted patients are often "highly resistant to therapy" and "skilled in making...

The Common Sports Injury of a Sprained Ankle

a step or jumps inadvertently onto an opponents foot with an inverted foot (Lynch, 2002). Often, the foot is plantar flexed when t...

A look at the Herpes Viruses

subfamily have longer reproductive cycles and a more narrow host range. In this group, infected "cells often become enlarged. Lat...

Overview of Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma affects mainly the men who worked in construction trades including shipbuilding, where asbestos was most often used. ...

Diagnostic Testing in an AIDS Analysis

rather than late (Poznansky et al, 1995). To determine if this was the case, researchers compared 97 newly diagnosed HIV p...

The Devil in the White City by Larson

is something that cannot be ignored. It was after all the Civil War that freed the slaves. Black people, or Negroes as they were r...

Chiropractic Care and Insights

approaches and invasive surgical procedures are more commonly used to treat scoliosis, chiropractic care has been proven to be an ...

Henri Case Study on Career Decision Making

career requires commitment, thought, dedication and planning. John Hollands Personality-Type Theory is based on the theory that t...

Cultural Audit of Hilton Hotels

factors. Holton already claims that they are the most well known hotel chain in the world with a very high level of brand recognit...

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...

Dementia and Evidence Based Practice

severe behavioural problems, the only viable option for care is within NHS long stay facilities, although there should be wide ran...

Treating a Hispanic Alcohol Abuser

are distinctive patterns of drug and alcohol abuse within the Hispanic population. Overall, Hispanics use alcohol at rates simila...

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...

Pharmacology and Substance Abuse

of Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...

Comparing Alcohol Abuse in Heterosexuals and Lesbians

alcohol and drugs (McDaniel, 2001, 86). Abuse is a part of the lesbian experience as it is for all areas of society, but...

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...

An Acupuncture Overview

relies on treating pressure points on the hands and feet that correspond to aching parts of a body. The theory behind acup...

Colonization and 'King Leopold's Ghost'

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

The Parish Nurse and Advanced Practice Nursing

issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...

Overview of Eating Disorders

In twenty pages eating disorders are examined in terms of etiology, presentation, treatment, research, and preventive measures wit...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and REBT

The designation "shell shock" was replaced by "combat fatigue" in the Second World...

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...

Treating HIV/AIDS with Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART)

and AIDS Treatment, 2004). Then the virus will begin to reproduce itself as though no drugs were ever taken because the virus beco...

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...

The Medical Argument for Legalized Marijuana

to reduce pain remains controversial. A 2001 meta-analysis of 39 clinical studies found that marijuanas was no more effective in...

Overview of Pneumonia

or Aspergillus often come in contact with the patient through their inhalation of contaminated aerosols. We now know that an infe...