Essays on Health Page 241

Society is technologically the most advanced it’s ever been, religion and science have lived in the same world for decades now. So many problems have been solved with new discoveries, anti-vaxxers ignore data and use past mistakes as meaningless points in their argument. Humans have extended the life expectancy with innovative modern medicine, a woman’s…

I grew up in Alabama and had a natural love for football. Thankfully, I had the skills needed to earn a football scholarship at Wake Forest University. This allowed me to push myself against strong athletes and strive for academic excellence at a well-known school. The high-quality education provided by Wake was important to me…

Ancient peoples were using iron as early as 4000 B.C.E. for making various tools, weapons, and other objects. They apparently obtained the iron from meteorites. The composition of those earliest iron artifacts was higher in nickel than native iron ores on Earth, in keeping with the composition of meteorites (Steel). In fact, the word ‘iron’…

Just picture a hospital emergency or intensive care wing. Feel the rush of doctors and nurses trying to get patients stable and looking at different things such as blood spurting out of an arm or seeing a bone break through skin. Just feel the rush of trying to save people’s lives. This is the life…

As currently just in a span of three to four months, panic buttons are on the rise in the global economy, for the pandemic of COVID 19 has forced the entire world to be in a state of complete lockdown. Coronavirus is spreading across at an alarming rate, severely affecting the entire economy and throwing…

“Violence” in its general sense and use is meant to communicate an image of physicality. However, as maintained by John Galtung in this sense it is “avoidable impairment of fundamental human needs or human life, which lowers the actual degree to which someone is able to meet their needs below that which would otherwise be…

Mr. Jones, a 59-year-old African-American male, who has no history of alcohol use and who denies smoking cigarettes. On the weekends, he coaches a basketball team, Mr. Jones consumes high sodium food like hot dogs and nachos following basketball games. Mr. Jones is being monitored for HTN and previously reported a blood pressure of 168/92…

Childhood obesity is a complex issue within the United States which can lead to immediate health problems as well as future health complications. Childhood obesity is defined by the CDC as children having a BMI at or above the 95th percentile. The body mass index (BMI) is a measurement tool used to determine whether an…

Although I didn’t initially choose physical therapy as a career in healthcare, my true passion was discovered while applying to Drexel University for my undergraduate studies. While pursuing a major in biomedical engineering and aiming to design prosthetics and other supplies, I realized that engineering wasn’t the right path after being required to take AP…

A strong genetic relationship is present between asthma and allergic diseases. This paper in this issue identified specific loci that are shared between the diseases and provide treatment of the diseases. Asthma is a chronic respiratory syndrome of the airways in the lungs. Asthma causes inflammation and narrowing inside the lung and restricting the air…