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STDs

This paper consists of five pages and argues that sexually transmitted diseases have been all but lost in the primary medical focu...

Modern Diet as the Cause of Degenerative Diseases

In twelve pages the Western or American diet and the problems it causes as related to degenerative diseases such as osteoporosis, ...

Cattle Industry and the Economic and Media Impacts of Mad Cow Disease

In thirty pages this paper discusses how mad cow disease affected the cattle industry in a consideration of media and economic pro...

Disease of Compulsive Gambling

In three pages the disease known as compulsive gambling is discussed in terms of its basis and treatment. Two sources are cited i...

Analysis and Cross Cultural History of Prostitution

In five pages this paper examines prostitution in terms of its historical origins and from a cross cultural perspective with socia...

Biopharmaceuticals, Medicine, and the Effects of Deforestation

In five pages the negative impact of deforestation on medicine is examined in a discussion of the destruction of biological materi...

Pesticides and Their Uses

In nine pages this paper discusses how pesticides are used in the control of disease, management of land, and in agriculture. The...

Utilitarianism, Virtue, and Ethics

In six pages this paper considers relatives of people suffering from debilitative diseases such as Alzheimer's and concludes that ...

AIDS and Infants

In two pages this paper examines how a mother with HIV or AIDS can transmit the disease to the womb with treatment options also co...

Bioethics Advanced Essays

This paper contains ten pages and discusses the complexities of bioethics by summarizing the biology of HIV and the disease produc...

Biological Warfare and Descriptions of Ebola and Anthrax

In seven pages biological warfare is considered through an examination of the commonly used bacteria types of anthrax or mad cow d...

Thalidomide's Return

the limbs); missing limbs, fingers, and/or toes; webbed fingers and/or toes; extra fingers and/or toes; partial or total hearing a...

Structure of the Brain and Alzheimer's Disease Impact

In five pages this research paper examines how Alzheimer's Disease influences the patients' brain cells and structure. Eight sour...

Overview of Pancreatic Cancer

This paper consists of five pages and examines the devastating disease pancreatic cancer, of which much is still unknown. Seven s...

The Blood Supply and Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is a significant health threat for the blood supply in the country. Methods which help to mitigate the threat are disc...

Common Sense Safety Guidelines

In three pages this paper discusses how violence, disease, and accident risks can be reduced through safety preventive measures. ...

Aboriginal People and European Diseases

author notes that "On the night that the Aztecs drove Cortez out of Mexico City, in their retreat the Spaniards left behind an inv...

Overview of Chinese Beliefs

2002). In addition, dietary practices in Asia are often associated with religious practices and customs (Gifford, 2002). R...

Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...

Disease of Schizophrenia

known to manifest various peculiarities or disorders of thinking and behavior. Correctly speaking, however, these are diseases of ...

Understanding Health - Two Approaches

Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...

Male Health and Understanding Through Biomedical, Psychological, and Sociological Disciplines

is important to consider how the incidence of heart disease can be attributed to a combination of genetics and ones own personal p...

Overview of Taxco, Mexico

in the silver mines. Catholic clergy protested, but to no avail. The agricultural economy suffered, as did much commerce other t...

Discussion of Diabetes Mellitus

damaging kidney function, eyesight and having the very real potential of causing limb amputation. Genetically determined, diabete...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Sociological and Medical Impacts

results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...

United States and the Implications of Mad Cow Disease

epidemic in January 1993 (Center for Disease Control, 1996). By 1996 the outbreak had slowed to only an approximate three hundred...

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...

Epidemiology of Tay Sachs Disease

peripheral vision and eventual blindness, mental retardation, paralysis, and non-responsiveness (National Tay-Sachs and Allied Dis...

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...

Relationship Between Cardiovascular Disease Stress and Cardiovascular Reactivity

rest and sleep to the heightened conditions experienced during maximal exercise (Turner, 1994). In other words:...