Academic papers on Medicine, Medical Issues, & Pharmacy

Antibiotic Resistance: History, Etiology, and Treatment
A 9 page discussion of antibiotic resistance, diagnosis, and treatment. Correlations have been reported by numerous researchers regarding increased antibiotic resistance in microbial populations with high usage of antibiotic drugs. Unfortunately,...
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Radner's It's Always Something
This 3 page paper looks at Gilda's experience with ovarian cancer. Primary, secondary and tertiary medical care is discussed as it respects this case. No additional sources cited.
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Sleep Apnea
A 5 page research paper on sleep apnea, which is a sleep disorder in which the person stop breathing over and over again throughout the night without waking up. It causes fatigue, depression and may decrease cognition in children. The writer...
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How Medical Care Played into Gilda Radner's Plight
This 7 page paper focuses on the book It's Always Something, which is an autobiographical account of Gilda Radner's ordeal with ovarian cancer. The paper examines medical ethics and the types of medical care provided to this Saturday Night Live...
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Civil Monetary Penalties and Relevant State Statutes
A 3 page paper discussing the Office of Inspector General (OIG)'s apparent reversal of itself in gainsharing arrangements between hospitals and physicians that strive to hold the line on spiraling health care costs. The paper demonstrates that OIG...
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Ethics of Colorectal Cancer Screenings
This 8 page paper considers the idea that as a society, Americans have chosen to "sacrifice" the lives of people under age 50 to colon cancer, rather than imposing a cost of screening at a younger age. It also considers mandatory annual screening...
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Terri Schiavo's "Non-Voluntary Passive Euthanasia"
4 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses how the changing face of life-sustaining treatment throughout American hospitals gives one pause as to the fundamental properties of patient wishes and how those desires may one day be completely...
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Implementing A Rapid Response Team In A Hospital
This 5 page paper is a proposal to implement a rapid response team in a hospital. The paper explains what a rapid response team is and reports research that demonstrates lower mortality rates when this type of team is used. The writer includes the...
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Medical Problems Caused by High Heels
This 4 page paper examines a variety of foot problems caused by high heels. How problems are diagnosed, treated and prevented is the focus of this paper. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Designing a Test To Assess a Link between the Emotion of Fear and the Amygdale
This 4 page paper designs a test to assess if there is any link between the amygdale within the brain and the emotional of fear in human subjects. The paper looks at the best way to image the responses in the brain and then at how issues such as...
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Disability is a State of Mind
A 4 page essay that discusses accommodations that can be made for disabled individuals. This paper looks at various ways in which the needs of the disabled are being accommodated and how this impacts their lives from a philosophical perspective....
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Monocytes, Macrophages, Interleukin And STAT
15 pages in length. The writer goes into considerable detail describing the role each of these elements plays in the human body. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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Amnesia: What is it and How to Cope
A 6 page paper which examines what amnesia is and how people, and loved ones, can cope with the problem. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Absorption of Ionized Drugs
This is a 3 page paper which discusses how ionized drugs can be absorbed by the body. The bibliography has 1 source.
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Continuing Education for X-ray Technologists
5 pages containing the content of a 13-slide PowerPoint
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