Medicaid is a program that has provided free or low-cost health care to millions of low income Americans since 1965. According to Klees, Wolfe and Curtis (2009) congress first elected to approve access to medical care for certain segments of the population in 1950. At this time the government began...

Barden (2004) presents an assessment of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) changes that can result from successful antidepressant therapy. Barden asserts that evidence indicates incorrect action by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) system may have an important involvement in these HPA changes. The key mechanism for HPA activation is in hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone...

Until the eradication of smallpox in 1980, it was one of the most feared diseases of mankind. Although smallpox is very similar to pox viruses of other animals, it is targeted to humans and there is no animal known which can "store" the virus and infect people. This fact made...

Each day, millions of people across the world experience chronic, recurrent and acute pain. In most of the victims of the pain, neither pharmacological nor surgical interventions fail to stop the pain and suffering in most of the victims due to the physiological and physical influencing factors that trigger the...

Prior to the time when any prospective new medicine can be determined, researchers need to have a comprehensive understanding of the disease they are looking to cure, as well as the condition's underlying cause. They look at various factors such as: how any alterations in the genes have transpired, what...