Academic papers on Medicine, Medical Issues, & Pharmacy

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
This 14 page paper provides information about this dreaded syndrome, inclusive of future outlook. Various theories concerning the origin of this disease is explored. Information on the development of an AIDS vaccine is included. Bibliography lists...
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Pharmacotherapy and Cognitive Therapy
5 pages in length: This paper reviews the fact that there is an ongoing debate as to whether the unipolar depressive patient responds better to pharmacotherapy or cognitive therapy based treatment. Studies reveal that patients do indeed benefit...
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Marketing Pediatric Home Healthcare Services
This 3 page report discusses some basic principles of marketing and their application in the framework of a hospital offering pediatric home healthcare. It is essential that the health care organization fully understand every possible aspect of...
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Nursing in the 21st Century
A 5 page paper which discusses some of the present conditions of the nursing profession as it addresses the future in this century. The paper primarily focuses on nursing in Canada, though much of what is presented applies to all of North...
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Colon Cancer
This 6 page paper looks at a basic outline of colon cancer. The paper is divided into four sections covering etiology, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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Uses of Hypnosis
This 6 page paper looks at the subject and highlights how it is used by medical professionals as well as in behavior modification industries. Controversial uses are noted such as in the case of past life regression and by police to jog a witness's...
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Health Care: Leadership for the Future
A 10 page paper discussing the systemic change already occurring in health care and its implications for future leadership. Spiraling costs to insurers nearly a generation ago gave rise to the HMO that radically changed the business of health...
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Asthma: Causes and Diagnosis
A 7 page review of the biological and environmental causes of asthma. Discusses the importance of diagnosis in appropriate treatment. Outlines several diagnostic techniques including Spirometry (pulmonary function tests), the measurement of serial...
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Injuries Common to Female Basketball Players
This 12 page paper considers injuries that are common to female basketball players and outlines the biological reasons that these injuries occur relative to the types of movements involved in basketball. This paper considers the physical structures...
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Stress Effects and Health
A 10 page paper reviewing and then discussing some of the current literature devoted to describing how increased stress adversely affects health. For most adults and an increasing number of teens, having unplanned, unscheduled time to...
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Automated Medication Dispensing
The information technology of the past three decades has revolutionized the health care profession - including administration and service provision. This 7 page paper gives a brief overview of the cost effectiveness of incorporating an...
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Buyers Health Care Action Group
An 11 page paper. Health costs have risen dramatically over the years to the point that employers as well as consumers have become continually more disillusioned. A group of employers in Minnesota did something about it. They established a...
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Jaded And Disillusioned: Addressing Nursing Issues
15 pages in length. As nursing has moved forward into the twenty-first century, has the industry earned any more respect and admiration than it had over one hundred years ago? Indeed, it can readily be argued that men continue to hold both...
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In Vitro Fertilization And Multiple Births
A 15 page paper. In vitro fertilization has been a topic of heated debate for a number of years. One of the reasons for the debate has to do with the high percentage of multiple births, specifically, triplets and more. This paper provides some...
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The Ethics of Invitro Fertilization
A 16 page research paper that examines questions concerning the ethics of invitro fertilization (IVF) and the problems associated with multiple births (pregnancy reduction) from an ethical standpoint that includes Kant, utilitarianism, and liberal...
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