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  • Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

    Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

    Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease And Dysphagia In Pregnancy Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is a common disorder among the general adult population. GERD is a backflow of contents of the stomach into the esophagus that is often due to the result of weakness of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES). This backflow of gastric acids may often produce a burning pain in the esophagus, commonly known as heartburn. Repeated episodes of reflux may cause esophagitis, peptic esophageal strictures,

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    Essay Length: 1,491 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: July
  • Quarantine Law Exploring Issues Related to Travel with an Infectious Disease

    Quarantine Law Exploring Issues Related to Travel with an Infectious Disease

    Quarantine Law for the 21st Century Exploring Issues Related to Travel with an Infectious Disease U. S. health and government officials are pledging to tighten procedures in wake of an incident in which a man infected with a drug resistant form of tuberculosis was able to travel out of the United States and return evading health protection measures at the border. Atlanta lawyer, Andrew Speaker, 31, made headlines when he traveled on seven commercial flights

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    Essay Length: 5,921 Words / 24 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: David
  • Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease

    Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease

    Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer’s disease Leila Pouttu, 77, suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, and her husband Donald was devoted to caring for her. “He was always there for her, always,” a friend of the couple commented. “He never left the house other than to ride his bike around and go swimming every morning”. The Pouttus had no local relatives and no children. Both were retired and lived in their house for 29 years (Kornacki, S.,

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    Essay Length: 2,311 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Janna
  • The Role of Diet in the Aetiology of Coronary Heart Disease

    The Role of Diet in the Aetiology of Coronary Heart Disease

    1.0 Summary The report to discusses the role of diet in the aetiology of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and critically assesses the measures the government has taken in trying to reduce death rates from CHD through dietary measures. Two of the health campaigns the government has been partially successful in are: • 5-a-day fruit and veg campaign • 6g of salt campaign There is a lot of information available from the government but some of

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    Essay Length: 3,090 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases

    Sexually Transmitted Diseases

    For my second reaction paper, I am writing on the lecture about sexually transmitted infections that was presented by Kathryn Brown. Kathryn Brown is a health educator at the Health Care Center at Indiana University. I found this lecture to be very interesting and useful because it was the first real presentation I have had on this subject. This information is vital in our day and age because, lets face it; we are all sexual

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    Essay Length: 625 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Mike
  • Alzheimer’s Disease

    Alzheimer’s Disease

    In this day and age, it seems as though almost everyone has experience a loved one taken away form a very serious disease known as Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is unbelievably devastating for everyone affected by it. This disease is causing major economical problems such as less occupancy in the nursing homes, and hospitals due to the rising population of elderly men and women being diagnosed with it everyday. Because there is not yet

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    Essay Length: 950 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Top
  • Alzheimers Disease

    Alzheimers Disease

    You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes on lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression ..is not really an intelligence. Our memory is coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing. What about the people who have lost it completely…. What is … Alzheimer's is

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    Essay Length: 931 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • Stress Related Diseases

    Stress Related Diseases

    STRESS RELATED DISEASES Several definitions of stress have been proposed thus causing a great deal of confusion. Therefore, I would like to leave the meaning of this word very simple. It is a term we human beings use to stand for hundreds of specific problems in our lives. It is a word we use when we feel angry, depressed, frustrated or worried. Stress can be categorized into physical, emotional and behavioral. I would like to

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    Essay Length: 420 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Anna
  • What Is an Infectuos Disease

    What Is an Infectuos Disease

    What is an Infectious Disease? An Infectious Disease is a disease caused by germs, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites. These diseases are all "caught", hence they are often termed communicable diseases. Examples of specific infections include Strep throat, mononucleosis, cold sores, athlete's foot, appendicitis, boils, vaginal yeast infections, African Sleeping sickness and tuberculosis. HEPATITIS B VACCINATION Safe and effective vaccines are now available for protection against hepatitis B, a serious liver infection that

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    Essay Length: 558 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Stress and Disease

    Stress and Disease

    Stress & Disease Millions of people are dying each year from stress and related illnesses. Unfortunately these illnesses are treatable, and most importantly preventable. Their must to be a way for people with stress related problems to get help. We need better understanding, and more education of this major illness which is crippling a lot of people around the world. Human beings all over the world live in different ways. Most diseases people get is

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    Essay Length: 610 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Jon
  • The Mental Disease Named Schizophrenia

    The Mental Disease Named Schizophrenia

    The Mental Disease Named Schizophrenia Some people may describe schizophrenia, a person who is afflicted with schizophrenia, as one who has lost their mind. Others may say that they are just sick people seeking attention. Well I am going to describe to you what I have learned about this mental disease. I will include the many symptoms, causes, and impacts this disorder brings into lives. There is a lot more to this disease than

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Vika
  • Infections and Diseases

    Infections and Diseases

    1. List ten factors that might influence the virulence of an infection. Factors from both the parasite and the host can influence the severity of an infection. Parasite/ Micro-organism Variables 1. Variability of gene expression of multiple pathogenic mechanisms (Ref 3) 2. Potential for damage or stress of the micro-organism (Ref 3) 3. Interactions with other organisms (Ref 3) Variables of the Host 4. Age (Ref 3) 5. General health (Ref 3) 6. Pregnancy (Ref

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Jack
  • Living in the Shadow of Heart Disease

    Living in the Shadow of Heart Disease

    Living in the Shadow of Heart Disease In the United States, every year more than 1 million Americans suffer from a heart attack. This number although it may not seem like a lot, is indeed quite high. Heart disease is a major killer that can in fact be controlled. If more people would watch what they eat, do simple exercises, and restrict physically damaging activities, such as smoking, they could lower their risk of a

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Artur
  • Alzheimers Disease, Nursing

    Alzheimers Disease, Nursing

    Nursing Care and Understanding of Alzheimer Disease Introduction Loss of memory, forgetfulness, personal change, even death, are common related disorders caused by a disease called Dementia or better known to most people as Alzheimer’s disease. This disease is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States in persons 65 and older. Alzheimer’s disease is, named for the German neurologist Alois Alzheimer, who first recognized the disease in 1907; Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by

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    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Steve
  • Schizophrenia: Disease of the Brain

    Schizophrenia: Disease of the Brain

    Schizophrenia is a complex brain disorder. Like many other illnesses, schizophrenia is believed to result from a combination of environmental and genetic factors. All the tools of modern science are being used to search for the causes of this disorder. The term schizophrenia is Greek in origin, and in the Greek meant "split mind." This is not an accurate medical term. In Western culture, some people have come to believe that schizophrenia refers to a

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    Essay Length: 836 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Diseases & Other Healthcare Issues

    Diseases & Other Healthcare Issues

    There should never be a time where we decide who dies and who doesn’t. Who made us God? The Almighty is the only one who can make that kind of decision about anyone’s life. We do need to get all appropriate documents filled and signed just in case we can not make this decision ourselves. We all have the right to die. We all should have the legal right to control the manner in which

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    Essay Length: 258 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Dsm IV - Does Asperger’s Disease Exist?

    Dsm IV - Does Asperger’s Disease Exist?

    Susan Dickerson Mayes, Susan L. Calhoun, and Dana L. Crites’ purpose to the article was to determine whether or not DSM IV Asperger’s Disorder exists. She had researched cases leading back to the beginning of Asperger’s Disorder and determining whether they truly classified as Asperger’s or the closely related Autism Disorder. The study was to validate the term of Asperger’s Disorder and to clearly evaluate whether there really was an Asperger’s Disorder. The procedure

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    Essay Length: 544 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Monika
  • Gauchers Disease

    Gauchers Disease

    TITLE: Gauchers Disease] OBJECTIVES: 1. To be able to understand Gauchers Disease. 2. To be able to know the cause of Gaucher’s Disease. 3. To able to know the different sign and symptoms of Gaucher’s Disease. INTRODUCTION: Gauchers Disease - is inherited metabolic disorders in with harmful quantities of a fatty substance culled glucocerebroside accumulate in the spleen, liver, lungs bone marrow and sometimes in the brain. Gauehers Disease was an inherited disease and that

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    Essay Length: 1,507 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Max
  • Prevention Plan: At Risk for Heart Disease

    Prevention Plan: At Risk for Heart Disease

    Prevention Plan: At risk for Heart Disease Heart disease is the number 1 killer of American men and women however it doesn't have to be. There are many steps you can take to prevent and manage heart disease and live a long, healthy life. A heart attack occurs when an area of heart muscle dies or is permanently damaged because of an inadequate supply of oxygen to that area.(Jacqueline A. Hart, M.D, 2003, 1) This

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    Essay Length: 477 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Ocd Disease

    Ocd Disease

    OCD Disease It was 9:30 a.m., and Nancy, a 36-year-old attorney, had arrived late for work again. Nancy knew she needed to catch up on her legal assignments, but a familiar worry nagged at her. No matter how hard she tried, Nancy could not dislodge the thought that she had left a pot burning on the stove. The image of her home engulfed in flames was so vivid she could almost smell the smoke.

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Alzheimer’s Disease

    Alzheimer’s Disease

    Alzheimer’s Disease (Nervous System) Alzheimer’s Disease Introduction Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, degenerative neurological disorder that leads to impairments in memory, thinking and reasoning. It is a late-life illness that causes a form of brain failure. It produces confused thinking, impairs judgment, changes personality, alters behavior. The illness is progressive and ultimately results in death. While it cannot be cured, it can be treated. During the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease, many people are

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    Essay Length: 955 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Monika
  • Women and Heart Disease

    Women and Heart Disease

    WOMEN AND HEART DISEASE Heart attacks and heart disease is no longer considered a disease that affects just men. Women are at risk for these diseases too. In fact, heart disease is the leading cause of death among women. American women are more likely to die from heart disease than from breast cancer. It w3as said by the Texas Heart Institute that this disease kills more women over 65 than all cancers combined. Many times

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    Essay Length: 443 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Bred
  • Addison’s Disease

    Addison’s Disease

    Addison’s disease Addison’s disease is a disorder of the endocrine system. It is a hormonal disorder that can strike anyone, any gender at any age. Addison’s disease has also been called Adrenal Insufficiency (hypocortisolism) because the root of the disease is in the adrenal gland not producing enough of the hormone cortisol, or sometimes not enough of the hormone aldosterone to satisfy the body’s needs. Cortisol is in the class of hormones called glucocorticoids and

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    Essay Length: 702 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Top
  • Alzheimer’s Disease

    Alzheimer’s Disease

    Alzheimer’s Disease Noah Rodman Helen Packey English 120 November 5, 2001 Alzheimer’s Disease Imagine waking up one morning and you cannot remember where you are or your own child’s name. This could be a direct sign that you or a family member has Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia, which means that it affects certain functions of the brain such as memory, logic, and everyday bodily functions. This disease was first

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    Essay Length: 899 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Vika
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism

    Emerging Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism

    Emerging Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism 10/13/2005 The first reported case of the West Nile virus in the United States was in June of 1999. It was reported that there was an abnormal increase of dead birds, mostly crows, in the New York City area. Some of the sick and dead birds were being sent to laboratories for analysis with the sick birds being released upon the health of the bird. The wildlife pathologists who studied

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Vika

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