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The demands placed on emergency health services today differ greatly from those of the past fifty years and yet we have only recently seen changes enacted to improve our responsiveness. One major burden on hospitals and emergency departments in particular, is the issue of overcrowding and the decreased quality of care that is associated with…

A new study found students who doubt their abilities to handle bad moods or bad situations are more prone to drinking. This is just the latest in a number of alcohol studies coming out in relation to college students. College students are always easy targets for these surveys, since many students are finally away from…

Death is a shared human experience and therefore a universal theme in literature.  Poetry, fiction, and drama venture into the dark recesses of life by exploring the inevitable fate of everyone and everything that breathes. Death differs from person to person and the treatment of death in literature differs from author to author. Similarly intoxicating…

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that primarily affects the lung parenchyma caused by slow-growing bacteria that resembles a fungus. It is usually spread from person to person by droplet nuclei through the air. The lung is the usual infection site but may also be transmitted to other parts of the body, including the meninges,…

Good morning to our beloved lecturer and my fellow classmate. In our advanced world nowadays, we have discovered about lots kinds of diseases. Among those diseases that have been discovered is asthma. Generally, we knew that asthma is a lung-related disease and it does make breathing become difficult. But did you know that asthma is…

AP Biology Summer Summaries There are many differences between proximate and evolutionary causes and explanations on why we are such easy targets for diseases. The proximate explanations are described by its anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry. Evolutionary explanations go into detail on what would happen if we didn’t have the genes that cause us to get…

Patients around the globe could be predisposed to breast cancer due to the alteration of a gene. They need to request a genetic consultation to benefit, if necessary, from personalized care. Everyone wants to know is breast cancer genetic? 60,000 women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 changes “These two genes help repair the damage that DNA…

Abstract This paper examines some critical challenges that all health care facilities in the nation face. Challenges within the health care sector are nothing new, they have been around for ages, but the severity and type of issues have progressively grown. The increasing size of the health care market and the necessity for treatments creates…

A typical American college students spends more on beer than they do on textbooks. Junior and senior high school students drink 35% of all wine coolers sold in the United States and 1.1 billion cans of beer each year. More than million students drink when they are alone; more than 4 million drink when they…

It is a known fact that every person on this earth is different and reacts to certain situations differently, especially when it comes to our bodies. When thinking about sickness and disease, our first thoughts aren’t about anthropologists, but usually about medical doctors. In chapter fourteen, our textbook discusses the roles of anthropologists and specifically…