Essays, Research Papers & Term Paperson Diseases (857) essays
Diseases essays:
Depression
... depression is severe enough to require treatment. Another type of depression is seasonal affective disorder, or SAD. This is when clinical depression follows a seasonal pattern, affecting people in the fall or winter and leaving in spring. It is apparently caused by a decreased amount of sunlight ...
A Review of Conventional Medicine and Acupuncture in the Treatment of Migraine
... Sensitivity to light (photophobia) or sound (phonophobia), or visual disturbances may accompany migraine headaches and may be exacerbated by movement or physical activity (Lipton, Stewart, & Simon, 1998). The frequency of attacks can very from two to three per year to ...
Hemophilia
... live female births. There are about 20,000 people living with hemophilia in the United States. Every year, about 400 babies are born with hemophilia. Though the disease has an x-linked inheritance pattern, as many as 1/3 of the people with hemophilia may have gotten it from a spontaneous mutation of ...
Angina Pectoris, a heart disease
... Human Heart 5 Symptoms of Coronary Heart Disease 5 Heart Attack 5 Sudden Death 5 Angina 6 Angina Pectoris 6 Signs and Symptoms 7 Different Forms of Angina 8 Causes of Angina 9 Atherosclerosis 9 Plaque 10 Lipoproteins 10 Lipoproteins and Atheroma 11 Risk Factors ...
HIV/AIDS - Description, causes, statistics etc.
... to as HIV positive. It may take up to 6 months after contact to show up. The number of women with HIV and AIDS in the United States is steadily rising. From 1985 to 1996, the proportion of ...
Cardiovascular disease and exercise
... with the Palmaris Longus, I would recommend wrist curls in the supinated position. Then the last group I could say to ... activity requiring wrist extension or stabilization of ...
Depresion and treatment
... of depression, symptoms of depression, different types of depression and also how you can treat depression. I'll start off with the question "What is depression"; the official text book definition of depression is "An emotional state in which there are extreme feelings of sadness, dejection, lack of ...
Smallpox is a serious, contagious, and sometimes fatal infectious disease.
... of smallpox, and a much less severe disease , with death rates historically of 1% or less. Smallpox outbreaks have occurred from time to time for thousands of years, but the disease is now eradicated after a successful worldwide vaccination program. The last case of smallpox in the United States ...
Health Essay on Alzheimers
... to stay for a while. Overall this condition has eluded humanity for almost a century and probably will be stopped in the next. Alzheimer's disease with its vicious symptoms of amnesia and paralization must be stopped. If the 5% of ...
HIV/AIDS Research Paper
... United States, there are about 800,000 to 900,000 people who are HIV-positive. Over 300,000 people are living with AIDS. Each year, there are about 40,000 new infections. In the mid-1990s, AIDS was a leading cause of ...