699 Search Results for Neurological Disease
female Alzheimer's patient endures due to this disease. Alzheimer's is a progressive cognitive disorder that destroys a person's memory and hampers other functions that a normal human would expect to be able to experience each day. This paper delves Continue Reading...
Women and AIDS in New York City:
Hidden Cases, Hidden Problems
Ask most people what group of people you think of when you think of AIDS, and most people will name gay men. While it's undeniable that the AIDS epidemic was first noticed among gay men Continue Reading...
medical condition known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The paper presents pertinent data about the disease both from the literature available and from a personal position of testimony. Also, this paper reviews the technologies that are used to relive pati Continue Reading...
Embryonic Stem Cells to Cure Disease
Embryonic Stem Cell
Derivation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Generation of Cardiomyocytes from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Purified Population of Cardiomyocytes
Use of Transgenes in Differentiated Cardiomyocy Continue Reading...
However, because of their nature, it is more appropriate to study them as STIs, or sexually transmitted infections since that is the their most common form, and the manner in which they are typically spread. The distinction, particularly from a publ Continue Reading...
Genetic Disease Diagnosis, Screening, Treatment, And Advocacy
This case study involves a couple who are expecting a child. Testing has been conducted identifying the unborn child having the condition of Tay-Sachs disease. The nurse in this scenario Continue Reading...
Genetic Disease Diagnosis
The Trosacks
Initial visit: three to five appropriate members for an interdisciplinary team
When the Trosacks come for their initial consultation, they must first seek to gain insight into the nature of Tay-Sachs disease, Continue Reading...
Dementia
Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia, of which there are many types. Dementia is a term that describes a number of conditions that lead to a loss of intellectual capacities but initially occurring with clear consciousness. The area mos Continue Reading...
Parkinson's Disease
The human central nervous system is a miraculously designed functional piece of our bodies that helps us conduct the most essential tasks to help in our survival. It is therefore very important to investigate and understand how t Continue Reading...
Cognitive Effects of Brain Injury and Disease
The care of patients with brain injury and diseases has improved substantially over the last thirty years. Nonetheless, the acute cognitive effects caused by brain injury are still a problem for the surv Continue Reading...
The presence of cardiac enzymes in the blood often indicates myocardial necrosis. Medical experts generally view MI as one among acute coronary syndromes. Unstable angina and non-ST-elevation MI are among the syndromes. Statistics said that approxim Continue Reading...
PARKINSON'S DISEASE
UNDERSTANDING THE PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Understanding Parkinson's disease
Description
Parkinson disease is a progressive neurological problem that affects people of all ages and races. It is a very common condition. It is estim Continue Reading...
Addict, Michael Stein uses a case study approach to exhibit, analyze, and discuss addiction in general and how addiction impacts the lives of individuals specifically. The author takes into account psychological trauma, psycho-social issues, and oth Continue Reading...
Neurological disorders are disorders that affect the spine, brain, and nerves that connect them. There is a wide range of neurological disorders and more than 600 disorders that affect the nervous system. As a result, the treatment of neurological di Continue Reading...
Assessing Neurological Symptoms
Mr. XYZ
20 years old
White
S: Mr. XYZ complains of headaches (intermittent) that diffuse all over his head. He, however, points out that he experiences great intensity as well as pressure just above his eyes. The said Continue Reading...
Addiction is not simply an extension of bad habits, or else every person who drank wine would be an alcoholic and every person who tried pain killers after surgery would grow into a heroin addict. The truth is that some people are susceptible to addi Continue Reading...
(Associated Press) This means that patients would be able to decide whether or not to undergo treatment with Provenge irrespective of cost.
The subsidization of expensive medical treatments by the Medicare program is actually nothing new. Medicare Continue Reading...
Introduction and BackgroundIntroductionAlzheimer\\\'s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects memory, thinking, and behavior. It is the most common cause of dementia, accounting for up to 80% of all dementia cases (Rayathala Continue Reading...
Clinical Trial NCT01504854
The number of Americans with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias will grow as the U.S. population age 65 and older continues to increase. It is projected more than 3 million people aged 85 and older are likely to have Continue Reading...
Conflict of Interest
Should I, as principal investigator of a new drug that potentially could help those who suffer from Parkinson's disease, enroll my father, who has Parkinson's disease, in the study?
My Answer to the Question
First of all, the Continue Reading...
Treatment
The Infectious Diseases Society of America or IDSA came out with guidelines on the treatment of the infection.
A multidisciplinary group, which prepared these guidelines, included infectious disease specialists, rheumatologists, neurolo Continue Reading...
Nursing
Instructions:
Please use peer reviewed articles for references. References must be in 6th edition APA format
The instructor changed the first part of assignment. Pick one genetic disease, Downs syndrome or Huntingtons disease are good choi Continue Reading...
Stem Cell Research / Parkinson's
Since Barack Obama has become president, the field of stem cell research has been given new life. One of Obama's campaign pledges
was to allow deeper research -- including the use of federal research funds -- into t Continue Reading...
) between 20 and 50.
Studies have shown that people with multiple sclerosis who exercise:
c.) have less fatigue
How many people in the United States are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis every week?
A b.) about 200 ("Take the FDA Consumer")
Deal Continue Reading...
80s and the 90s, an unknown but virulent cattle disease, called "Mad Cow," destroyed 180,000 livestock in the United Kingdom and some other European countries and plunged other major cattle-producing nations - including the United States - into glob Continue Reading...
3.3 Data Collection
Is maternal UBE3A active following iPS treatment: Data will be gathered on the iPS-treated mice via positron emission tomography, and in vivo brain slice preparation, and Western Blot Analysis. H1 will essentially be ascertaine Continue Reading...
In the third trimester of pregnancy, caution must be taken concerning congestive heart failure, hypertension and decreased renal and hepatic function, interstitial nephritis, hyperkalemia, hyponatremia and renal papillary necrosis, anticoagulation a Continue Reading...
West Nile Virus
In recent years, every summer, the threat of West Nile (WN) virus has become the scourge of the temperate regions of Europe and North America. (Abramovitz, 2004) The virus presents a threat to the human and animal population -- espec Continue Reading...
" (Science Daily, 2008) it is related that these testing and diagnosis of West Nile in horses assist in the identification of where the disease is spreading and helps in the decision concerning whether to vaccinate horses in an area. Dr. Magnarelli s Continue Reading...
Swine Flu
Swine Influenza -- commonly known as Swine Flu is a type of infectious disease caused by the Swine Influenza Virus (SIV). Swine Influenza Virus (SIV) or Swine-Origin Influenza Virus (S-OIV) is very common in pigs all over the World (Siegel Continue Reading...
Research Databases - Nursing
Stroke Disparities
The incidence and mortality rates for stroke differ markedly along racial lines, with African-Americans having a much higher risk of stroke and death from stroke compared to Whites (Howard, 2013). App Continue Reading...
Airway Pressure
THE EFFECTS OF AIRWAY PRESSURE RELEASE VENTILATION AND HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION VENTILATION ON THE HEART - SPECIFICALLY WHEN THE PATIENT HAS CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE.
MECHANICAL VENTILATION
CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
AIRWAY PRESSU Continue Reading...
Morality, Suicide and Euthanasia
There are always important questions to be asked -- and answered -- when a child is very ill and healthcare decisions have to be made by the family. In the case of 11-year-old Jimmy, who suffers from an incurable neu Continue Reading...
caregivers of individuals with AD
Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease is a terribly debilitating disease that strikes older adults and for which there is no known cure. According to the Institute on Aging, Alzheim Continue Reading...
Physical dysfunctions caused by traumatic brain injury which are not properly addressed, such as erectile dysfunction, can cause an extreme dip in male sexual frequency.
Another way in which sexual function is affect by traumatic brain injury is th Continue Reading...
Cognitive Aspects of the Aging Process
The purpose of this work is to define cognition and to explain the effects of aging on the brain in relation to memory, attention, metacognition, effects on languaging and the effects of aging on the executive Continue Reading...
Biology in the Real World
Stem Cells
Almost all life forms have stem cells in them and the main purpose of these cells is that through the process of mitosis they can divide into other various kinds of cells as well as into other stem cells. In ani Continue Reading...
Environmental Design
Environmental & Interior Design_ Environment for Disabled and elderly population
Environmental design: Summary
Preface
At times, it has been difficult to reconcile environmental design with aesthetics and the practical ne Continue Reading...
We conceivably create children who are perfect genetically -- but never have another Einstein, a man who had weaknesses as well as strengths.
Hidden in such notions is the idea that people with any kind of difference or disability are somehow defec Continue Reading...