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Examination of CAM Therapies

reduce discomfort following surgery (NCCAM, 2004). Use of CAM has been controversial in the medical community, especially...

Occupational Drug Testing of Employees

have enacted certain laws on their own which sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. ...

Two Novels on Female Relationships and Power

that is part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away from me since" (T...

Managed Care Power and Its Effects

staff or group model HMOs would provide all health care by the mid-1990s, but, in actuality, such HMOs have been declining in numb...

Medicine from Ancient China

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

CAM in Mainstream Medicine and in the Future

invest billions annually on alternative approaches to healthcare (Allen, 2005). The National Institutes of Health estimates that ...

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

Modern Medicine and Religious Traditions of the East

were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

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...

UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR OF PHARMACARE IN CONNECTION WITH AD23

Answers questions pertaining to the business, marketing and advertising non-ethical behavior used by PharmaCARE in its distributio...

STDs Increasing

The introduction reports data about the incidence of Chlamydia and uses that as a catalyst to discuss health programs in schools; ...

Overview of IT/Oakland Family Medicine

This research paper/essay describes the IT systems used by Oakland Family Medicine, which is associated the MaineGeneral Medical C...

The Future of Nursing, Overview of The IOM Report

This research paper offers an overview of the "Future of Nursing", which was developed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF...

Evidence Based Practice and Chiropractic Practice

in the 1980s by a "group of medical educators at McMasters University in Ontario, Canada" (Haneline 2007, p. 3). This group made t...

Genetic Research, Trend Towards Personalized Medicine

envisioned as means to optimize care, taking it to a new level of quality. The technologies associated with this trend have result...

THE QUESTION OF CULTURE: LIA LEE, THE HMONG AND WESTERN MEDICINE

on p. 262 of her book. "However, I have come to believe that her life was ruined not by septic shock or noncompliant parents but b...

Considerations in Government Supported Stem Cell Research

heal without scarring (Muneoka 56; Pilcher 42). Unfortunately, embryonic stem cell research is an ethical quagmire. Stem cell ...

Laws and Regulations for CAM

individuals in the treatment of a diversity of medical problems. Willow trees are the natural source of aspirin. Medicinal plant...

Hippocrates and Influence of Greek Medicine

As Hippocrates father, Heraclides, was a physician, it is likely that he was his sons first instructor in medicine (Jankowski, 201...

Issues in Chinese Medicine and Medicinal Nutrition

and Ping, 2011). As with TCM practices, such as acupuncture, CMM is gaining attention worldwide, and much of this attention focuse...

WOMEN’S HEALTH AND ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES

Furthermore, the researchers pointed out, pain, depression and insomnia among this sample were "strong predictors" of CAM usage (E...

Modern and Ancient Medicine

strategies to support improved health along with pharmacological interventions. The ancient Egyptians introduced some treatment...

Nuclear Medicine and Its Uses

the era of nuclear medicine. The development of nuclear medicine has taken off in recent decades, with broad reaching implication...

First Line Therapy for 7 Diseases

Tabatabaee, 2009). Additionally, first-line therapy includes using triple sulfa vaginal cream, as this agent has broad-spectrum an...

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Canada

This research paper pertains to the growing utilization of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies by the Canadian ...

Ensuring Continued Supply of Medical Radioisotopes

The writer looks at the importance of radioisotopes in medicine, focusing on the challenges posed by the current supply chain arr...

The Future of Nursing

This research paper pertains to "The Future of Nursing," a report that was collaboratively formulated by the Robert Wood Johnson F...

Politics Morals Religious and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

This paper asks the question of whether the most vociferous members of society are now directing medicine in a way that diverts re...