Disease Essays
Crystalline silica dust and lung cancer
Between 1996 and 2009 IARC classified silica as one of the carcinogenic substances to human beings. The relationship of the exposure-response between silica dust and lung…
Postnatal depression
Introduction The biopsychosocial model can be termed as a broad view attributing a disease outcome to the intricate, variable interaction of some biological factors like genetic…
Bipolar disorder diagnosis and treatment
Abstract Bipolar disorder is a key community health problem, with diagnosis frequently happening years after the disorder’s inception. Controlling it calls for a lifetime regimen of…
Hypothetical patient
Miriam McCarthy, a teacher from a neighboring school, has been suffering from obesity since she was ten years old. Currently, she is teaching in a college,…
Ethical decision making
The ethical principle of autonomy, also known as the patient’s right to self-determination, is the principle which indicates that decisions must be made by those who…
Preventing Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
Pulmonary Embolism (PE) and Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) are jointly designated as venous thromboembolism VTE (Blann, 2015). Venous thromboembolism is associated with extraordinary rates of mortality…
Health care case study
Approach to care This section analysis the case of a 76-year-old man who is suffering from persistent congestive heart failure and hence feeling helpless, despondence and…
Nursing: diabetes control
Introduction Diabetes mellitus, commonly referred to as diabetes is a chronic medical condition that is caused by a number of reasons. Globally, statistics show that approximately…
Diabetes mellitus type II
Diabetes Mellitus refers to a health condition that results from deficiency in secretion of pancreatic hormone called insulin. Failure or inadequate secretion of insulin affects the…
Diabetes mellitus
Under a body’s optimum physiological condition, plasma glucose concentrations get maintained within a relatively narrow range despite there being significant fluctuations on demand as well as…
Alcoholism: the effects from a biopsychology perspective
According to the article under the title “Alcohol’s Effects on Brain and Behavior”, research of brain functions within the problem of alcoholism have achieved great results…