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h4. Health care use h4. Hospice care # Number of current patients with Alzheimer's as primary diagnosis: 7,900 # Percent of current patients with Alzheimer's as primary diagnosis: 7.5 _Source: 2000 National Home and Hospice Care Survey, table 12_ h4. Nursing home care # Number of residents with Alzheimer's: 231,900 # Percent of residents with Alzheimer's: 14 # Average length of ...

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Just a nice little way to keep up on some drug calculations.  It is a refreshing way to test yourself and see if you are correctly calculating dosages.  I find it helpful when I am transitioning to a higher education and need to brush up on some drug calculation skills.

h4. INTRODUCTION The immune system is the body's primary defensive survival mechanism. It can determine what is "self," which needs to be protected - and what is "non-self," which needs to be destroyed. A properly functioning immune system allows us to live a life virtually free of illness and disease. Nutrition plays a key role in maintaining optimal immune function. Recent ...

h4. Introduction There are the traditional forms of management, which most of us grew to hate as we endured our supervisors and their enlightened whims. We all can relate to the plight of Dilbert, the cartoon engineer, who constantly fights a losing battle with his thickheaded boss. For most of us, there has been an occasional good manager who helped us ...

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h4. Introduction Scientists do not yet fully understand what causes Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the more they learn about AD, the more they become aware of the important function genes* play in the development of this devastating disease. h4. Genes All living things are made up of basic units called cells, which are so tiny that you can only see them ...

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Not meeting deadlines can spiral into project or career failure. Yet deadlines are one of the most vexing pieces of the time-management puzzle. But there are ways to manage your deadlines, according to Jeffrey and Laurie Ford, coauthors of Deadline Busting. h4. Five Deadline-Busting Tips h4. 1. Create and Maintain a Due List of All Deadlines: Write down any promised result, ...

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“In my research,” says Gilla Kaplan, Ph.D., of the Public Health Research Institute in Newark, New Jersey, “I ask what aspect of the immune response to infection protects some people from developing TB, and what is missing in those people who develop the disease.” Both human and bacterial factors contribute to the eventual outcome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) infection. If ...

h4. The Plasma Membrane - A Cell's Protective Coat The outer lining of a eukaryotic cell is called the plasma membrane. This membrane serves to separate and protect a cell from its surrounding environment and is made mostly from a double layer of proteins and lipids, fat-like molecules. Embedded within this membrane are a variety of other molecules that act as ...

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The autonomic nervous system is a visceral efferent system, which means it sends motor impulses to the visceral organs. It functions automatically and continuously, without conscious effort, to innervate smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands. It is concerned with heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure, body temperature, and other visceral activities that work together to maintain homeostasis. The autonomic nervous system ...

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h4. CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS h4. Introduction Cryptosporidium parvum (C. parvum), a coccidian protozoan, has been recognized as a human pathogen only since 1976. It received widespread recognition as a disease-producing agent in 1993, when over 400,000 people in Milwaukee Wisconsin developed diarrhea after drinking water contaminated with C. parvum1. Similar, but less spectacular, outbreaks have been reported since then and C. parvum has ...

h4. What is vCJD? Both vCJD and BSE are relatively new forms of a family of diseases, known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), that have been recognised for hundreds of years. They are called "spongiform" because, under a microscope, the affected brain tissue looks like a sponge. TSEs can affect both people and animals and share common characteristics. All of them ...

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