Essays on Medicine Page 11

Rakesh Sharma has lived with his family in Fremont for 17 years, and currently serves on the Planning Commission. Rakesh is a product of public education with doctorate degree in Clinical Biochemistry from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College. In 1977, Rakesh and his wife, Ranjana (a Family Physician) left for Japan where he worked at the…

“Diverticulitis is a condition in which diverticuli in the colon rupture. The rupture results in infection in the tissues that surround the colon” (MedicineNet, 2010, para. 1). Or at least that’s what MedicineNet. com states that it is. Sometimes what we find on the Internet isn’t as reliable as what we may think. Doing research…

History of UseBayer Corporation, a research-based pharmaceutical company with major businesses in health care and life sciences, sponsored the study. Bayer manufactures Cipro (ciprofloxacin HCl) Tablets, Cipro IV (ciprofloxacin) and Cipro (ciprofloxacin) Oral Suspension. Cipro Tablets and Cipro IV is the leading fluoroquinolone antibiotic worldwide. It has been available to fight serious urinary and respiratory…

HIV and Aids affect more than roughly thirty million people worldwide. Race, sex and age have nothing to do with who can get this disease, however, the race with the highest number of infected people happens to be Caucasian males ages 25-44. About forty-five percent of the 641,000 AIDS cases in the U.S. have been…

The Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN) has developed a guideline for patients with lower-extremity neuropathic disease (LEND) who are at risk of or already have wounds. The purpose of this guideline is to provide consistent, evidence-based information to improve patient outcomes and stimulate further research on wounds (WOCN, 2012). This study aims to…

    The Tuskegee Syphilis study was conducted from 1932 to 1972. There were 399 participants who had syphilis, and 200 in a control group who were not infected. The participants were primarily poor, illiterate African-American sharecroppers who were not told of their true diagnosis; rather, they were invited to join the study and given free…

Rosa Lee Cunningham is a 52 twelvemonth old Afro-american individual female parent of eight. who is a long clip diacetylmorphine nut. and has an extended felon record. Of her eight kids six of them have followed her in her life of dependence and offense. These offenses include everything from junior-grade larceny. to harlotry. to drug…

To survive in the ever-changing healthcare industry, healthcare organizations must embark on developing strategic planning and marketing programs to ensure the success of its organizations. The Affordable Care Act raised the quality of care for all Americans by reforming the health care system, making health care professionals and insurance companies accountable for upholding quality through…

The question between normal and abnormal behavior is fundamental in psychology. Abnormality plays a vital role in determining whether someone is diagnosed mentally ill, the diagnoisis largely determines the treatment received by a patient. All behavior can be seen to lie on a continuum with normal, or effective psychological functioning at one end, and abnormal…

Medical Research With or Without Informed Consent In 1952, paralytic polio peaked in the United States with 21,000 reported cases and numerous deaths. It was in February 1952; Jonas Salk developed the world’s first polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh and by testing it on cultured “HeLa” cells, proved it to be effective for…