Category: Medicine

Frequency of Urinary Tract Infections in Adults and the Elderly

With the increase in knowledge in healthcare fostered by huge investments in research, time has come to develop a strong intervention framework to combat the prevalence of urinary tract infections (UTI). Adults and the elderly are more vulnerable to such infections. Unlike in younger adults, where it is hard to find a distinction between symptomati...

How the Economics of Health Care Impacts Current Nursing Salaries

Health economics is a branch of medicine that deals with how effective and efficient the health care and health provision are. Health economics covers a certain scope of issues, including the demand and supply in health care, as well as various influences of health among others. The economics of healthcare has a variety of influences in different a...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Introduction Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) (also known as a disease of motor neurons, Lou Gehrig's disease) is a slowly progressive, incurable degenerative disease of the central nervous system, which is characterized by the defeat of both upper (motor cerebral cortex) and bottom (anterior horns of the spinal cord and nuclei of the cranial n...

Bipolar Disorder

Introduction Bipolar disorder refers to a type of mental disorders that are most apparent through extremities in mood shifts, from extreme happiness to extreme sadness. Other terms for the disorder are manic-depressive illness and bipolar disaffective disorder. Bipolar affects a person's ability to carry out daily tasks. In the absence of proper d...

Chronic Illness Resource Paper

The Internet offers people who struggle with chronic diseases a variety of resources that can be beneficially used. Without a doubt, the necessity of the online sources in the question grows since, nowadays, the majority of people use websites in order to find the required information. It is also the fastest way to obtain important knowledge, speci...