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Health and Alcohol

social problems associated with poverty and over crowding. In more recent decades the increased use by those under stress, on the ...

Breast Cancer and the Medication Tamoxifen

must be evaluated and considered against possible negative risks. The following discussion of tamoxifen looks specifically at the ...

Hurricane Katrina Evacuees and Community Health

Demographically, the people who were evacuated to Houstons Astrodome are primarily the people who took refuge in New Orleans Super...

Human Health and Impact of the Environment

et. al. (2000), for example, reemphasizes the importance of links made in the 1970s between male infertility and exposure to pesti...

Air Pollution/Cause and Effect

concerning controlling natural sources of pollutants and it is also a definition that recognizes the serious impact that human act...

Hepatotoxicity/Mechanisms

have been associated with NRTIs, which are believed to cause mitochondrial dysfunction, which range from oxidative damage to inhib...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Government and The Economy

influence on the American economy, exceeding that of the federal government (Mandel and Dunham, 2006). Just a decade ago, the U.S....

The Disappearing Middle Class

getting into debt, and he could look forward to a secure and comfortable retirement" (p. D8). That is no longer true, only the wea...

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...

U.S. and the Impact of International Trade

a reduced rate; we have the illusion that the middleman does not exist in the same way that he used to. Direct marketing and mail...

Pediatric Nursing and Secondhand Smoke

In ten pages this pediatric nursing issues focuses upon young children's health and the environmental effects of secondhand smoke....

Overview of Radon Gas and Its Health Effects

In five pages this paper discusses the odorless toxic gas in an overview of its discovery, history, and how it has insidiously inv...

Political and Ethical Perspectives on the Impacts of Drug Prices on Health Care

will continue as being one of the top consumer concerns. It can be argued that marketing strategies within the pharmaceutical ind...

Health and the Effects of Stress

demands that have escalated over the past century, with the population as a whole being forced to assume more and more responsibil...

Business Cannot Ignore Pollution: It is a Matter of Life, Death, and Ethics

of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...

Ionizing Radiation and Their Effects

In five pages ionizing radiation is discussed in terms of various kinds, measuring doses, and the effects of different doses as fa...

Law Enforcement and OSHA Regulations Occupational Health and Safety (OSHA) Regulations and Law Enforcement

personnel ranging from physicians and dentists to police officers and emergency rescue crews from blood-borne pathogens have been ...

Medicaid Fraud and Medicare

of how the treatment may be paid for. Other problems erupt when patients ask their doctors to fudge a code through the system beca...

Health Care Industry and Technological Trends

In five pages this paper discusses the health care industry in an overview of technological trends, cause and effect. Four source...

Physician Assisted Suicide and Business Ethics

In five pages business ethics are examined within the context of the health care sphere with partial ethical resolution offered in...

Health Care Industry Strategic Planning

In eleven pages this paper discusses strategic planning in the health care industry with HMOs and their impact, the relationship b...

Nonreactive Situations and Measured Reaction

In five pages this paper offers an article critique of Peter Benson, Stuart Karabenick, and Richard Lerner's 'The Effects of Physi...

Public Policy and Health Care

In twenty pages U.S. health care is examined within philosophical, legal, and historical contexts to evaluate the effects of vario...

Muslim Diabetics and the Impact of Fasting During Ramadan

In seven pages this paper examines Muslims who suffer from diabetes and the health effects of fasting during Ramadan's holy months...

Air Pollution and its Health Impacts

In eight pages this paper considers major types of air pollution in an overview of its wide ranging health effects. Eleven source...

School Bullying/The Effect on Bullies and Victims

(Ahmed, 2008). Witnesses may participate in bullying, either by providing verbal support for the bully; remaining silent and tryin...

Smoking and Health

still similar to smoking. Authors of the study report: " The researchers also calculated that on average, employee exposure was th...

Issues Concerning Prescribed Drugs

physical. And, as stated, taken as directed, there is very low risk of negative side effects of any kind. 3. Anti-psychotics As ...

Fast Food and Obesity

exercise he usually engaged in. Spurlock is 6;2: tall and weight 185 pounds at the beginning. His BMI was normal. For his height...