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College Campuses and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

growing epidemic of STD on campuses around the United States. For instance, a survey at one campus showed that "of a possible 500...

CRT Monitors, Effects, and Diseases

In seven pages this report considers the effects of excessive computer use with such health issues as electromagnetic radiation, b...

Heart Disease Prevention Clinic Led by Nurses

In thirteen pages this paper discusses prevention clinics led by nurses that focus upon myocardial infarction prevention. Twenty ...

Escherichia coli and Daycare or Summer Camp Disease Control

In six pages daycare or summer camp situations are examined in terms of the effects of the Eschericha coli bacteria with preventio...

Disease Management Programs/Diabetes & Effectiveness

levels (Rickheim et al 269). Fireman, Barlett and Selby (2004) Over the past decade disease management programs (DMPs) have prol...

Trinucleotide Expansion in Huntington's Disease

propensity for apoptotic stress (Hackam, Singaraja, and Wellington, et. al., 1998). In other words, the greater CAG length the sh...

Brain Changes Relating to Alzheimer's Disease

such as Lewy body disease, whereas others are of the opinion that all subtypes are variants of the same standard form of the condi...

An Overview of Alzheimer's Disease

In a paper consisting of five pages the brain changes, symptoms, incidence, coping, and expressed feelings by loved ones and patie...

Disease and Sigmund Freud

In seven pages this paper discusses mental illness from the perspective of Sigmund Freud. Six sources are cited in the bibliograp...

The Effects of Alzheimer's Disease on Caregivers and Family Members

wandering and incontinence (Anonymous Early Alzheimers Disease, 2002). It has been found that "The earlier the diagnosis, the more...

Preventing Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program

teens living in non-institutionalized group situations at the time of the 1990 census (US Census Bureau). Figures from the 2000 C...

Overview of Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease

In five pages this paper considers PBFD in an overview of the virus and the poultry types it affects. Seven sources are cited in ...

Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sex Education, and High School

In ten pages this paper examines high school sex education programs and their impact upon incidences of STDs and teen pregnancies....

The Physical and Mental Disease Known as Anorexia

In five pages the attributes of anorexia both physical and mental are discussed and include cause and treatment descriptions and a...

Digestive Health: Dietary Choices in Celiac Disease

in wheat, barley, and rye, however, are typically the culprit in aggravating celiac disease (See and Murray, 2006). In some case...

Epidemiology And Infectious Disease Prevention: West Nile Virus

individual who had West Nile virus (Altman, 2002). The disease, which spreads by a bite from an infected mosquito, can be inflict...

The Role of Nutrition in Treating Celiac Disease

Although celiac disease cannot be cured, it can be controlled with the elimination of the causative glutens from the diet. Those ...

Centers For Disease Control And Prevention

CDC Washington, Office of Chief of Public Health Practice, Office of Health and Safety, Office of Strategy and Innovation, and Off...

Why Pharmaceutical Companies Focus On A Disease

potential to make it through to the next step, the Phase 1 human testing trials (Masia, 2008). This is a very healthy small group...

Multicomponent individualized smoking cessation intervention for patients with lung disease

(Townsend, 2000). This study is advantageous in many other ways as well to the nursing educator. It utilizes methodologi...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

This 25 page paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding CVD in African American patients. Bibliography lists ...

The Hmong in America: Disease and Health Care

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

Impact of Persistent Diseases

As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...

Memory Loss and Alzheimer's Disease

In a paper consisting of six pages dementia and Alzheimer's are considered within the various types of memory loss associated with...

Health Promotion Rationale and Coronary Heart Disease

(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...

Tuberculosis, Head Lice, and School Disease

shown to be one of the sources where such harmful bacteria occur. Stemming directly from livestock populations, Mycobacterium par...

Evil Disease of Crime Cured in Gorgias by Plato

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

Pscyhology and Disease

Organization of Behavior, Canadian psychologist Donald O. Hebb established the first comprehensive theory of brain capacity for in...

Alzheimer's Disease

("Three stages," 2011, p. 1465). Mild cognitive impairment characterizes the second stage of AD ("Three stages," 2011). The thre...