Essays on Health Page 147

ody. People with this disorder have atypical hemoglobin molecules called hemoglobin S, which can distort red blood cells into a sickle, or crescent, shape. SCD affects millions of people worldwide, particularly those with African, Spanish, Mediterranean, and Indian ancestry. Some 120,000 infants are born with SCD every year worldwide. In the United States, approximately 1…

Introduction             Electronic Medical Records (EMR’s) or Electronic Health Records (EHR’s) are applications that would aid in recording clinical data electronically, making decisions, placing and receiving orders, making requests to the pharmacy, X-ray department and laboratory, and also documenting the clinical activities.  An EMR system can almost be utilized in any clinical settings including physician’s…

The platypus, apparently, is a surprisingly deep sleeper. What’s more, it spends more of its time in so-called ‘REM’ sleep than any other mammal. These are the conclusions of a study on sleep in the platypus by Jerry M. Siegel of the Sepulveda Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, North Hills, California and colleagues. Their report appears…

Alan Goldman in his essay Plain Sex posits two fundamental postulates: first, “Many ethical disagreements hinge upon disagreements about facts, not about moral principles”, and second, “Being a moral objectivist needn’t mean being morally conservative”. His first stance explains that the problem on the immorality of sex is not actually dependent of how it is…

The number of youth (15-24) who have used cannabis within the last year is currently three mimes higher than that of adults (25 years +) 21. 6% vs.. 6. 7%. It is reported in some Canadian jurisdictions that 50% of students in grade 12 have consumed cannabis within the last year (Portal-Waller 2009). Not only…

The Ear and Hearing LossThe ear is the organ of hearing and balance in vertebrates. The earconverts sound waves in the air, to nerve impulses which are sent to the brain,where the brain interprets them as sounds instead of vibrations. The innermostpart of the ear maintains equilibrium or balance. The vestibular apparatuscontains semicircular canals which…

Theory Paper on Cognitive Dissonance Theory “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core…

“I have always been a crusader of causes. This time, the cause found me,” one of the treasured quotes from the late Christopher Reeve (1995), the “Superman” loved by children and adult alike all over the world. The great American actor who, in May 1994 fell from a horse and sustained a spinal cord injury…

Health Statistical Quarterly, the Health Statistical Quarterly has more In-depth information on health issues. All these publications which are available online and as a hard copy give a wide range of statistics on birth and death rates, infant mortality which is the number of deaths that occur to children under the age of one according…

The mistake in our Stars. the 5th successful novel by the writer John Green. is a narrative about two fictional characters by the names of Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. It is a love affair about the two teens that merely go on to run into at a malignant neoplastic disease support group. Hazel….