Cultural Competence in Health Care

Cultural Competence in Health Care: Culture can be defined as, ‘that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society’. 1 Cultural competences (ability to successfully do something) in Health Care is a process where in the system considers the … Read more

Gender Inequality in Our Changing World

Gender Inequality in Our Changing World Jazib Galani Community College of Baltimore County Psychology 101 Gender inequality can be best described as the idea of the fact that men and women are not equal. Both males and females receive unequal treatment partly or wholly due to their gender, and this is greatly attributed to the … Read more

Inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathy (iDCM)

Abstract (within 200 words) Inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathy (iDCM) is a potentially lethal disorder characterized by progressively impaired cardiac function due to heart inflammation (myocarditis). Despite ongoing advances made in the treatment of iDCM, improvement of outcome remains problematic. Although many different environmental agents can trigger myocarditis including viral or bacterial infections, toxins and drugs, autoimmunity … Read more

Case studies – rhinovirus / C. difficile

CASE STUDY 1 Mrs T, aged 35, comes to your pharmacy to ask for advice on her father’s care, Mr I. Her father who is 66 years old, retired and otherwise generally healthy, is at home in bed and too unwell to come to the pharmacy. He has been unwell for the last 2 days … Read more

Review of  Irritability in Youths and Anxiety Disorders

Irritability is an impatient behavior that creates anger in response to frustration. This type of behavior is most likely seen in young adults and children. It is generally divided into two categories that is either mental or medical problems. It also represents certain disorders in DSM-IV. Irritability is described as the most common factor leading … Read more

Adenocarcinoma of the right sided colon

Question 1 Most likely diagnosis is adenocarcinoma of the right sided colon. The palpable mass in the RLQ, anaemia(which is classic of right sided CRC and due to blood loss) and blood in the stool all lead to this diagnosis. It could also explain why the scope couldn’t pass the whole way through the colon. … Read more

Should medical cannabis be legalised in Australia?

There are copious amounts of evidence to suggest that medical cannabis is a reliable resource both socially and medically. This has proven that medical cannabis should be legalised in Australia. Generally speaking, medicinal cannabis is cannabis prescribed to relieve the pain and other symptoms of medical conditions, such as epilepsy. It is important to make … Read more

Leptospirosis: new challenges from an old bug

What is Leptospirosis? Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection with worldwide distribution. It can affect most mammals (Bharti and others 2003) but some species seem more susceptible, such as the dog and the human. It is a spirochaete infection and the infecting organism was traditionally identified by serological testing, however modern methods using DNA hybridisation have … Read more

Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, risk factors, progression

Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior. It is the most common form of dementia and is not a normal part of aging. There are three main stages of this disease that progress slowly and worsen over time. Two structures are prime suspects of causing memory failure, … Read more

Dissociative Identity Disorder / Schizophrenia / Depression (literature review, online sources)

Dissociative Identity Disorder 1. Eduardo: “DSM History.” psychiatry.org, American Psychiatric Association, 2016, https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/history-of-the-dsm This web page begins by illustrating the need for a classification of mental disorders, and the issues associated with finding a consensus on the matter. Stating that over the past 2000 years the many classifications of mental disorders have varied greatly in … Read more

Cellular and Molecular Biology – Breast Cancer

In humans, the body cells usually divide into new cells only as they are needed. However, when one develops cancer, their body cells begin to divide incessantly. They then spread to the surrounding tissues (National Cancer Institute) creating a mass known as a tumor. Cancer doesn’t just describe one disease. It is a collection of … Read more

Cervical Lymphadenopathy

The  Increasing Phenomena of Cervical Lymphadenopathy and Relations to Malignant and Chronic Diseases in Assiut and sohag populations. Abstract Background and aim: Cervical lymphadenopathy is one of the commonest presentations in inflammatory and neoplastic disorders. The aim is To determine the common causes of persistent cervical lymphadenopathy and Relations to Malignant and Chronic Diseases and … Read more

Concerns of terminally ill lung cancer patients living in developed countries

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Aim This report aims to investigate the issues concerning terminally ill patients. 1.2. Parameters This report will investigate the concerns of terminally ill lung cancer patients living in developed countries like Australia and Singapore. This report is limited to 2000 words. 1.3. Definition of ‘Cancer’ A disease that refers to the uncontrolled … Read more