Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disease that destroys a person’s mental functions and memory. Its symptoms often go unnoticed and may begin with mild confusion and difficulty remember simple things. As the disease progresses, so does the memories of many of the important people and events in a person’s life....

H1N1 refers to a specific influenza virus. All influenza viruses are categorized based upon the hemagglutinins and neuraminidase receptors. H1N1 is a significant concern for public health because it was a new a strain that was not previously seen in humans. Therefore, large amounts of individuals were susceptible to it....

In conducting a research design for testing the proposed new high fiber diet, I will conduct tests on a number of different families suffering from different effects of cardiovascular disease. They would then be divided and used as test subjects. The effects of the new high fiber diet would be...

Dissociative amnesia, also known as psychogenic amnesia, is characterized by a sudden loss of memory in an individual, and can last for a period of time ranging from a few hours to a period of years. An episode of dissociative amnesia is also often accompanied by personality changes in the...

IntroductionThe disease model is a model that helps “highlights the differences between people with the disease, and those without it” . The disease model of addiction helps explain the various factors that can play into a person addiction (such as genetic and environmental factors). The disease model of addiction helps...