Essays

This year alone, approximately 1 million people will die from cancer. It is one of the leading causes of death in the world, second only to heart disease. According to the American Cancer Society (2012) states that 1 out of …

Abstract There are many ways someone can lose weight. Many people choose a healthy method of weight loss, such as exercising and a good, nutritious diet. Other people lose weight by developing an eating disorder. Eating disorders are dangerous and …

Through the eons, philosophers and scientists alike have mused about the multifaceted dimensions of the human psyche. With fervent endeavor, present minds are sparked by past ghosts in search of the ever-elusive ‘unified personality theory’— just as the future will …

As the complementary fields of genetic diagnosis, pre-natal monitoring and reproductive medicine develop more techniques for identifying and diagnosing diseases or the potential development of diseases, we can safely predict an increased incidence of wrongful birth and wrongful life litigation. …

Imagine the way Amazon. com, the most successful e-company besides e-Bay, financing their operation. In the end of 90s, the Amazon. com have been known as a huge online book stores worldwide although we got surprised to see that the …

Managed care (Health Maintenance Organizations or ‘HMO’) is a comprehensive treatment package in which both the delivery of the healthcare services is integrated along with the costs of providing the services. Most of the services provided under managed care are …

The managed care approach adopts a consumer-driven method to provide healthcare services. Some people feel that this consumer-driven approach may be just a small modification of the regular practice system, rather than a revolutionary method. People feel that if patients …

One of the benefits of technological advancements is improved quality of life. Medical breakthroughs through which many illnesses have been demystified and their effects mitigated can mostly be attributed to improvements in technology. It is now possible to operate on …

Cancer is disease characterized by the growth of abnormal cells. Any treatment strategy will therefore be aimed at interfering with the growth of these cells because they tend to affect the normal functioning of other useful body cells. Similarly, radiation …

Examining that mechanism one can clearly see that this technology requires significant hardware to achieve maximum energy for the electrons. Whilst, the technology has proven compatible with electrons (due to their size), the same success has not been achieved with …