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Developments in Medicine during the latter part of the Nineteenth Century

that it did was that it would give physicians a direction in which to focus as they looked for the etiology of various illnesses (...

Patient Satisfaction As An Indication of Clinical Quality

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

Narrative in Love Medicine and Monkey Beach

of the Rigger Bar" (Erdrich 1). From this moment her short story continues until she is alone and wandering in heavy falling sno...

Quantum Healing: By Deepak Chopra

has written; there are even video and audio cassettes/DVDs explaining his approach to healing. As with his other publications, Qua...

Pros and Cons of Animal Testing

that today scientists are "looking for cheaper, more accurate-and more humane-methods of testing chemicals on living tissues," wit...

Qualitative Reasoning

variety of researchers have shown the value of the use of qualitative designs in the assessment of best practice methods in health...

Massage as a Complimentary Medicine

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

Is Walking Beneficial for Human Health?

day. Rather than scheduling in daily walks, they try to increase their ordinary walking in the course of doing their daily tasks. ...

The ‘Biology’ of Cloning: Its Importance and Potential Impacts

Today, plant research scientists accomplish cloning through the manipulation of a limited number of vectors. The Ti plasmid (a pl...

BUNDLED PAYMENTS AND CHANGE IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

This 10-page paper discusses how bundled payments might impact health care delivery in rehabilitation and physical medicine while ...

The Social Issue Of Health And Mental Health

concern for hospital executives is the fact that as managed care contracts increase, hospital marketing orientation decreases. Ma...

Thomas King/Medicine River and Canadian Literature

the bearer of Native Canadian culture. For example, the novel opens with Harlen inviting Will to lunch at 10 a.m. and talking abou...

Revolutions in Science and Technology

While it is true that Fleming noted the effect of this substance on bacterial growth, the discovery entirely by chance, as Fleming...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

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...

Chinese Culture and Health Beliefs

is the concept of Qi, which refers to the idea that there is an energy that flows from the surface of the body to the internal org...

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 ...

Chiropractic and CAM

through the efforts of their own belief systems. However, some argue that without the additional use of conventional physical the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Health Care Industry and the Topic of Waste

at wasteful spending as well as waste in terms of paperwork that clogs the health care system and increases costs across the board...

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...

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...