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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...

Red Genital Lesions and Patient Diagnosis

how it was initiated. This means that contacting partners, or figuring out who might have given one the disease, can become rather...

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...

A Case History of Angina

of angina, but no indication of muscle damage or clotting (as would be the case in coronary thrombosis). It should also be...

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...

Autism

an avoidance of eye contact, absence of speech or a nonsensical parroting of others (referred to as echolalia), apparent deafness ...

An ADHD Review

"generalized impulsivity disorder, with the traits of impulsivity manifesting at the motor, emotional, social, and attentional lev...

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...

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...

Six Annotated Bibliographies: Eating Disorders and the Media

bibliographies; students will need to format items they use according to the style of their paper. First Bibliography: URL: http...

Causes of Eating Disorders

anorexia nervosa are 12 times more likely than others with no family history of that disorder to develop it themselves. They are f...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

even perhaps a friend or coworker, may not be able to detect and have no idea someone has this disorder. Others who suffer may be ...

Chemical Dependency Issues

the substance replaces recreational social or occupational activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). * The continuing u...

Summaries of DSM IV Disorders

Communication Disorder, Not Specified. Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Autism-lists of symptoms are presented in 3 separate ca...

Eating Disorders

many ways and through controlling their bodies, even to death, they have some control over their own destiny. People who have eati...

Borderline Personality Disorder

reckless driving, overspending, stealing). [Again, not including suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5] (Ame...

THE CASE OF BEN AND A PERSONALITY DISORDER

incident mentioned in the case study in which Ben presented the "gift from Jesus" to a pedestrian does lead to a definite lack of ...

Overview of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

In fourteen pages this overview of narcissism includes the DSM IV definition and various theories and treatment approaches. Fifte...

Overview of Paranoid Personality Disorder

and psychosocial development as they can be applied to understanding this disorder. Further, it is also beneficial to consider th...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Treatment of Mental Illness

more common in boys than girls (Silka and Hauser, 1997). Determining the cause of retardation can be difficult and hard to pinpoin...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Interventions

In five pages this literature review considers noninvasive treatment of learning disorders, mental retardation, and mental illness...

Two Articles on Disabled Veterans

In six pages 2 articles pertaining to veterans with disabilities are compared with a discussion of post traumatic stress disorder ...

Treating Bulimia Nervosa with Cognitive Behavior Therapy

she might continue to compete in her sport of gymnastics. ABOUT BULIMIA This disease of systematically bingeing and purging norm...

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is feeling much more anxiety than the normal person feels everyday (National Institute of Mental Heal...

Clozapine Compared To Effects of Other Pharmaceuticals

Willwerth, 1992). Anxiety and depression are common (Wallis and Willwerth, 1992). Approximately eighty percent of individuals tr...