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Conway Medical Center's Economic Forecast

Also on hospital property is an 88-bed nursing center that the hospital also owns and operates. Conway Medical Center provides ge...

Terminal Conditions and Informing Patients

patient, but it could serve to avoid having the same thing happen again in the future. Other Facts, Options and Consequences ...

Terminal Condition and Informing Patients 2

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

Dual Diagnosis Patients and the Importances of Comprehensive Treatment Programs

episode of major depression be treated in this type of program? Or can this person be treated in a primary addiction-oriented prog...

Exploration of Congestive Heart Failure

In seven pages this medical condition is examined in terms of its symptoms and treatment with a consideration of the role depressi...

Health Benefits of Child and Adolescent Exercise

children who are inactive because of television viewing. This study found that children who were inactive because of television v...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

Overview of Dementia

strikes first in the medial temporal lobe, memory recall, confusion and forgetfulness are typically the first identifiable symptom...

Angina Pectoris From a Nursing Perspective

risk factors that can be altered, with special attention to lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. B. Treatment of ischemia usua...

Medical Use of Marijuana Should Be Legalized

the listeners understanding of the fact that fever is a typical sign of infection, though obviously its not the only one; nor is i...

Effects of Exercise during Pregnancy

1993, p. 44). This means exactly what it says: the woman has to be able to exercise and talk at the same time without feeling shor...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

Artificial Insemination Dilemmas

process that has been practiced for several years, but it has become simpler - and therefore more complicated - in recent years. ...

Schizophrenia and Genetics

Study to Hunt for Genetic Causes, 2003). However, while there are medications to treat these conditions and reduce sympt...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

Examination of Gout

1995; Flieger, 1995). The body converts these substances to uric acid through metabolism. Approximately two thirds of the uric a...

EDTA Chelation Therapy as an Alternative Treatment Approach

have taken years to develop. The most vocal proponent of the treatment, Elmer M. Cranton, M.D., maintains that the only effective...

Disclosure and HIV

society. SOCIETAL MISUNDERSTANDING It is extremely unfortunate the effect AIDS has on the individuals afflicted with the ...

In Home Cancer Treatment

In a paper consisting of six pages the growing trend towards treating cancer patients at home rather than at a medical facility is...

Infant and Children Sodium Intake Suggestions

This paper considers varying suggestions regarding children and infant sodium intake with dietary restrictions and medical conditi...

Chiropractic Holistic Alternative

In ten pages the holistic option known as Chiropractic is discussed as an alternative to conventional medical treatment of joint, ...

Psychological and Medical Knowledge on Homosexuality

the most obvious homosexuals have always been men. Others have been ridiculed and harmed in one way or another. And, still yet, ma...

Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Purposes

In six pages this paper supports the legalization of marijuana sale by prescription in the U.S. for serious medical conditions wit...

Tuskegee Study and Medical Ethics

overhauled by Congress after Tuskegee hit the headlines in 1972. Today projects such as Tuskegee are reviewed by a panel of p...

Stress and Physiology

In eleven pages this paper discusses stress from a physiological perspective that includes such medical conditions as loss of memo...

Hip Dysplasia in Dogs

The abnormal movement eventually causes arthritis, discomfort and lameness" (Boyd, 1997, p. 10E). Even though dogs can - and usua...

Hereditary Illness Disclosure and the Questions It Raises

In nineteen pages the disclosure of a hereditary medical condition or illness and the bioethical and legal questions this raises a...

Cardiovascular Fitness and Lifestyle

In five pages this research essay discusses the relationship between lifestyle behaviors and cardiovascular health in a discussion...

Human Body and the Impact of Smoking

But in recent years, it has also been noted that while nicotine is introduced into the blood stream, other chemicals also bombard ...

Medicinal Marijuana Use and Ethical Issues

is anecdotal. Nevertheless, for many physicians, it is hard to argue with the results they seem to see personally. In prescrib...