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Homeostasis: understanding the effects of impaired mechanisms

The nervous and endocrine systems are tasked with regulating homeostasis. They act together to compensate and regulate signals to preserve equilibrium (Tortora and Derrickson, 2014). The endocrine...

Antipyretic drugs in patients with fever and infection: literature review

A literature search was undertaken in July 2017 using both the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and Medline databases (2010-2017). Keywords were searched, using...

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