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Metabolomic Profiles of Articular Cartilage Vary By Osteoarthritis Grade
(2020)Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common chronic joint disease, characterized by the breakdown of the articular cartilage (AC). However, there are currently no therapeutic drug targets to slow the progression of disease ... -
Global metabolic profiling of human joint fluid following a second ACL tear: A case report
(2019-01-01)Objectives: The objective of this study was to investigate the acute metabolic response to injury using global, or untargeted, metabolic profiling. The purpose was to better understand the acute response to injury following ... -
Arsenic and Tetracycline Resistant Microbial Diversity in High Arsenic Concentration Sediments
(2017-05-13)The Upper Tenmile Creek, which gives Helena most of its public water supply, is contaminated by historic mining activity. This mining adit drains into the creek creating elevated arsenic concentrations in the stream. These ... -
Microbial Community Characterization in an Arsenic Contaminated Watershed
(2017-05-05)Helena, MT gets over 50% of its drinking water from Tenmile Creek. With a rich mining history, over 100 abandoned hard-rock mines have introduced arsenic into this aquatic ecosystem. The presence of arsenic may contribute ... -
Social Smoking: A New Public Health Threat to Young Adults A Systematic Review
(2015-04-01)Background: Rates of cigarette smoking among young adults between the ages of 18-26 have risen slightly over the last ten years, counter to past and current public health campaigns warning against tobacco use. Some of this ... -
Seatbelt Usage Among Drug and Alcohol Impaired Drivers in the Bakken Oil Fields compared to greater Montana
(2014-04-01)Introduction: Montana has the highest rate of deaths due to impaired driving in the nation and the fifth lowest rate of seatbelt utilization. This study seeks to examine the relationship between these two issues in urban, ... -
Hand Hygiene: An analysis of one hospital’s intervention and a discussion of the limitations of observational hand hygiene studies
(2014-04-01)Healthcare-associated infections affect over one million people in the US each year, costing patients and hospitals large amounts of resources and time. Hand hygiene is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread ... -
Migraine Headaches: Are they an issue at Carroll College?
(2013-04-01)Migraine headaches have a significant impact on many college and university students. College students are younger and often healthier than older adults, but sometimes lead stressful lifestyles that may contribute to an ... -
Colorectal Cancer: Analysis of cancer stage at diagnosis compared to insurance status, age, ethnicity, and year
(2013-04-01)Colorectal cancer is the third most common type of cancer in the U.S., with about 138,000 diagnoses annually. Early diagnosis through screening dramatically increases patient survival rates. Insured individuals may have ... -
Effects of Educational Intervention on Children’s Knowledge of Obesity Risk Factors
(2011-04-01)Childhood obesity has become a significant healthcare concern in the US with rates tripling within the last decade. The increasing prevalence of childhood obesity puts these children at risk for several diseases and other ... -
Living with an Individual with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A Phenomenological Study
(2011-04-01)Using Colaizzi’s Method of data analysis, which is a phenomenological approach, this paper explored the role that a primary caregiver plays in the daily life of an individual with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). DMD is ... -
Predictive Testing for Huntington’s Disease: A New Paradigm of Patient Care
(2000-04-01)Radical changes have occurred in America’s health care system in the last twenty years. Technological and research advances have given medicine the knowledge to treat and to cure diseases once only dreamt about. But in the ... -
Moral Law And Physician-Assisted Suicide
(1995-04-01)Each person is unique with an individual look, identity, perspective, and personality. Each will experience an individual death, different from all others. Although there are as many ways to experience the process of death ... -
Use Of Medical Statistics To Improve Patient Care
(1974-04-01)Veritably any text on organization and administration, information management, or hospital affairs will contain a chapter on statistics. And an almost universal reaction to "statistics," whether in a hospital, large ...
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