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Overview of Alcoholism

panic attacks, low self esteem, and substance abuse are other manifestations of adults survivors of abuse(Boulware, 2002). Most of...

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...

Disease and Health

of where health concerns and support lie as they look to different perspectives and input factors. The World Health Organisation ...

News Letter on Heart Disease

for women, but as women get older, their rate of CHD incidence also goes up (Arnaldo, 2004). There are many risk factors associa...

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...

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...

Disease Treatment Through Alternative and Holistic Medicine Approaches

approaches that are specifically utilized to improve health, the percentage of Americans relying on CAM jumps to sixty-two percent...

Plague and Hantavirus Animal Diseases

one highly vulnerable to contamination by virtue of dust-carrying particles and surface contamination (Colorado Department of Publ...

Heart Disease, Women, and Health Promotion

average age of just over seventy years of age in women, almost sixty years old in men. Coronary heart disease strikes women two t...

Heart Disease and the Role of Cholesterol

cholesterol has been believed to be a correlate in heart disease for several decades. In a February 1990 "American Family Physici...

Alzheimer's Disease History Overview

November 1906, Alzheimer described eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde (a peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex) - the cli...

Brain Changes Relating to Alzheimer's Disease

such as Lewy body disease, whereas others are of the opinion that all subtypes are variants of the same standard form of the condi...

Hand Washing Hygiene in Disease Control

asked to touch the groin area of a patient as though they were taking a femoral pulse for a duration of fifteen seconds. The work...

Chicken Pox And Measles: Compare/Contrast

locations where pocks are first detected, however, the entire body is covered in the itchy, red vesicles anywhere from three to fi...

Trinucleotide Expansion in Huntington's Disease

propensity for apoptotic stress (Hackam, Singaraja, and Wellington, et. al., 1998). In other words, the greater CAG length the sh...

Pathologic Gambling In Parkinson's Disease Patients Using Dopamine Agonist

which dopamine agonists and levodopa therapy works synergistically to provide physical benefits is both grand and far-reaching; th...

Chronic Disease in China/Article Critique

appropriate to the issues under investigation. The methodology utilized a cross-sectional survey of randomly selected telephone nu...

A Research Proposal Investigating Travel Health Knowledge of Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Travellers to Developing Counties

This 10 page paper is a research proposal to investigate the level of knowledge of travellers to developing countries concerning d...

Health Benefits Of Red Wine

consuming a drink and lower risk of heart disease (Mukamal and Rimm, 2001). That same controversy tends to surround what is refer...

Notch Protein Linked With Alzhiemer's Disease

level they may experience a major conformational transformation, turning into a type of beta sheet rich tertiary structure which w...

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...

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...

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...

Health Promotion Rationale and Coronary Heart Disease

(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...

Tuberculosis, Head Lice, and School Disease

shown to be one of the sources where such harmful bacteria occur. Stemming directly from livestock populations, Mycobacterium par...

Alzheimer's Disease and the Role of a Psychologist

and eventually all cognitive function for the person inflicted with the disease (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). While the spec...

Controlled Study of Gastrooesophageal Reflux Disease in Children and Oral Health

is clear that the issue, as Linnet et al state, merits further investigation. Lazarchik and Filler (1997) point out that dental er...

The Diverse Disease of Dengue, Plague, Malaria, and the West Nile Virus

malaria first received widespread attention when it began to affect returning servicemen that had contracted the disease while se...

Heart Disease Prevention and the Role of a Canadian Nurse

their web site with which this nursing organization is involved. For instance, the AACN promotes a specific cardiovascular health ...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Physiological Causes

Scientists now accept the fact that some individuals have a greater chance of being impacted by Alzheimers disease than others. T...