Essays Tagged: "Pneumonia"

The Differences and Similarities of Pneumonia and Tuberculosis

knowledge and may not be explained in the essay great paper guysThe Differences and Similarities of Pneumonia and TuberculosisPneumonia and tuberculosis have been plaguing the citizens of the world fo ... tors, medical interventions, course, rehabilitation and effects.To explore the relationship between pneumonia and tuberculosis we will examine a case study. Joan is a 35 year old women who was feeling ...

(10 pages) 110 1 3.6 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

"Accounts Settled"

r during the early 1900s.The inciting incident in the story is when Gordon's dad came down with flu-pneumonia and Gordon must take his place in taking care of the trapline that he had set up in the fo ...

(2 pages) 33 0 4.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Patients in Tertiary Health may be said to be at a greater risk of developing pressure sores. Discuss how such situations may be prevented.

d the life expectancy of these patients, well into old age. As a result, previous illnesses such as pneumonia, which would have claimed the lives of these patients, has become less of a problem. Howev ...

(10 pages) 190 1 3.2 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

All about Pneumonia

PneumoniaDictionary definition:Pneu*mo*niaNoun: A disease of the lungs characterized by inflammation ... uses, bacteria, or other microorganisms and sometimes by physical and chemical irritants.What is it?Pneumonia is a bad and sometimes deadly infection or inflammation of your lungs. The air sacs in the ... work properly. This and other spreading infections in the body are what can cause death!Before 1936 Pneumonia was the number one cause of death in the US! Since then with the help of antibiotics, Pneu ...

(3 pages) 98 0 3.0 Jun/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

AZT

s doctors around the United Statesbegan to report groups of young, homosexual men developing a rare pneumoniacaused by an organism called Penumocystis carini. These patients then went on todevelop man ...

(6 pages) 52 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Title: What's the big deal about Aids? This is a critcal essay on AIDS listing treaments, prevention, and facts about AIDS. 5pages, MLA format with Works Cited

se when they noticed that some of their homosexual patients had contracted rare forms of cancer and pneumonia. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified the new disease-now known ...

(6 pages) 262 3 3.1 Feb/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

This is an essay about medeival medicine

ie chives around the limb in hopes that this would take away the pain, or if a patient came in with pneumonia, the herbalist might give them some flat-leaved parsley to eat.1 Today, if someone were to ...

(7 pages) 51 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Mildred's Success as a powerful woman

leaving behind her former housewife routine. Mildred's younger daughter, the better one, dies from pneumonia. To add to this misery, Veda, spoiled rotten, hurts Mildred's feelings, despite Mildred's ...

(2 pages) 47 0 3.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

This essay describes a student nurse's experience of caring for someone in I.T.U. and the Law, Ethics and Therapeutic Use of Self issues related to this experience.

s) who had suffered from respiratory failure, which led to a build up fluid in the lungs and caused pneumonia. The infection spread from his lungs to contaminate his blood causing sepsis, which poison ...

(8 pages) 568 0 4.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Staphylococcus studies.

hout antibiotics. Such minor infections of Staphylococcus are skin infections, bone infections, and pneumonia. Occasionally, Staphylococcus bacteria can also cause serious infections such as severe li ...

(6 pages) 59 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

This is a detailed essay about the new emergence of SARS. The history, the physiology, the symptoms, and the treatment are discussed.

It was on a farm somewhere in southern China where the mystery pneumonia we know as SARS probably began. Once in the cities, the virus spread, thanks to air travel ... al in Hanoi on 26 February 2003 and, over the next week, took many samples. The disease looked like pneumonia - an acute disease marked by inflammation of the lungs and usually caused by bacteria, vir ... of southern China in early February that hundreds of people were falling ill with a strange form of pneumonia. It turned out they were right: an outbreak had begun there in November 2002, and had now ...

(4 pages) 58 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Summary and Analysis of Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage for AP US History Class

idge Mountains on August 18, 1774. He had a sister, Jane, and a brother, Reuben. His father died of pneumonia. Lewis' mother married Captain John Marks six months after his father's death.The new fami ...

(6 pages) 83 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

< How have sociologists attempted to explain different patterns of health and illness for different groups of people across the globe >

important as having a balanced diet.A century ago, in Europe there were diseases such as influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis which remained popular reasons of death in low-income countries.All these ...

(6 pages) 82 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Bela Bartok

k contracted Bronchitis as a child and because of the illness did not begin speaking until age two. Pneumonia also hampered his motor skills and he was severely delayed in learning to walk.Bartó ...

(24 pages) 75 0 3.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

The Economic and Government Effect on America's Poor

amilies have always been the least insulated from market forces. When the economy sneezes, they get pneumonia." Bernstein and Lazere (2001) make this statement to point out that when our economy is st ...

(2 pages) 62 1 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

Roald Dahl's Boy, a book report . This is a book report about the book "boy" by the british author Roald Dahl.

ld Dahl was born in Llandaff, Wales. They got four children together, before Roald's father died of pneumonia, only a month after his daughter. Sofie (Roald's mother) was a brave woman, and stayed in ...

(3 pages) 93 5 4.8 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Diseases during 18th century Britain

0, due to their poor living conditions and poor hygiene. These diseases included Typhus, Influenza, Pneumonia and Tuberculosis. One particularly bad disease amongst the British was Cholera. Cholera is ...

(2 pages) 51 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

y" (Willinger, 1991).More children die of SIDS in a year than all who die of cancer, heart disease, pneumonia, child abuse, AIDS, cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy combined. Many researchers now ...

(6 pages) 106 3 4.8 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Childhood Immigration

ed this choice on one day and one day only. In my pediatricians office a small girl, diagnosed with pneumonia went in to see the doctor. Sometime later, she came out with the biggest smile on her face ...

(1 pages) 42 1 3.4 May/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

SERRATIA MARCESCENS by Carter Stanley is a background research paper for a science fair project based on the virus Serratis Marcescens and its antibiotics Tetracycline and Streptomycin.

Serratia marcescens was released over the city. Within a matter of days, markedly high increases in pneumonia and urinary tract infections were reported by local doctors. Serratia marcescens was no lo ... positive bacteria. Many uses include the treatment of Rocky Mountain Fever, Tick and Typhus fever, pneumonia, upper-respiratory infections, gonorrhea, urinary tract infections, serious acne, trachoma ...

(4 pages) 48 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology