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It's Always Something by Gilda Radner

with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any event, things were mi...

Gilda Radner's Ovarian Cancer and the Role of Medical Care

of sorts. The problem with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any...

Screenings for Colorectal Cancer and Ethics

application of diagnostic tests or procedures to asymptomatic people for the benefit of dividing them into two groups: those who h...

Breast Cancer Chemoprevention

to raloxifene, which, as a "promising agent" (pp. 7-15), falls far behind tamoxifen in any use other than clinical trials. When d...

Cybercrime

whilst others are not adequately covered. However, when looking at the act and the way in which the internet has developed since t...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...

Canadian Aboriginal Youth and Suicide Among Canadian Aboriginal Youths: Rates, Causes, and Solutions

for suicide than other groups and these include prison inmates, persons with mental health disorders and Aboriginals. In19...

How to Cope with Breast Cancer

women cope with this diagnosis. The following examination of this body of research demonstrates that while some studies are inform...

Pregnant Adolescent Minorities and the Treatment and Prevention of Substance Abuse

think, to work on this area. For example, a counselor discovers that because of a childhood trauma, she has an unreasonable dislik...

More Negative Than Positive Effects of Anabolic Steroids

with normal hormone production, causing a kind of drug-induced sex change -- men can become feminized, with shrunken testicles and...

Examination of the Disease Leukemia

However, as the disease progresses, it may cause a low-grade fever as well as night sweats and fatigue (1996). Also, leukemia may ...

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...

Canada and Gender Violence

a semblance of a reason why a man might turn into a monster, and it just might be that domestic violence and substance abuse are r...

Biographical Sketch of Bipolar Disorder

(APA, 2003) and "These rates are consistent across diverse cultures and ethnic groups" (APA, 2003). The rate for bipolar II is abo...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Postmenopausal Women, Breast Cancer Risk, and Raloxifene

of cancer and that women with high concentrations of estradiol in their blood stream are at the greatest risk of developing breast...

An Exploration of Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans

total nine hundred and two patients were men and the remaining forty-three percent were women (Chen, 2003). DFSP typically develo...

Nursing Journal Critique Upon Cancer Patient Treatment Through Therapeutic Massage

using similar tests and with mixed variables such as aromatherapy and hypnosis. All of the studies mentioned concluded that massag...

Cancer Support Groups and Remedial Model Usage

in groups created by the reciprocal model and attention is given to both ideas and feelings (1990). The needs of the group members...

Literature Review on Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in Intensive Care Units and th Effects of Improved Oral Care

that inadequate understanding of the impact of oral health in the hospital setting can be evidenced, and Holmes (1996) further con...

Pros and Cons of Chemotherapy for Cancer Patients

In ten pages an evaluation of cancer patients using chemotherapy treatment is presented through a consideration of its recovery ad...

A Review of the Film, My Life

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the film, My Life, which stars Michael Keaton as a young man facing death from cancer. T...

Cancer and Homes with Unacceptable Radon Gas Levels

types of rock may have higher concentrations of uranium and may produce higher levels of radon, elevated radon levels can also be ...

Urban Legend or Zeitgeist Myths

still believe that they will get cancer by overuse of their cell phones. By and large, this is not a bad urban legend in that it m...

Rural Southwest Queensland Australia and Developing a Breast Cancer Screening Program

2002). Finally, the paper notes that there should be an adequate screening test that is "capable of detecting the susceptibility, ...

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

Discussion of Bacterial Meningitis

past three decades (Freeman, 1997), the idea of one vaccine to address three strains of meningitis is nothing short of phenomenal....

Senior Citizens, Cognition, and Hip Fractures

Roland, 1996). Langjolois, et al (1998) showed that weight loss was a factor in hip fracture in older men and found that lower men...

Criminal Justice and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

unborn child. The National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) defines fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) as "a lifel...

Environmental Health and Asbestosis

Lung Disease Surveillance Report, 1996). This is true of the UK and the international environment, and is due to the delay between...