Web Based Nursing Intervention for Self-Management of Pain After Cardiac Surgery

The Journal of Medical Internet Research article titled, Web Based Nursing Intervention for Self-Management of Pain After Cardiac Surgery: Pilot Randomized Trial, utilizes an intervention to address the attitudes, and false information surrounding pain and pain management after surgery to determine whether pain will be affected (Craig & Smyth, 2012). Appraisal of key aspects of … Read more

Utilisation of partograph among midwives and doctors at Kapkatet District Hospital

BACKGROUND INFORMATION A partograph is a tool that was designed by Philpot in 1971 in Harare Zimbabwe. By 1973 it was already considered a simple devise used to distinguish abnormal from normal labour as it was used to monitor 15,000 delivers within 18 months (Studd, 1973). It is a pre-printed paper with a visual (graphical … Read more

Depression in adolescents

Adolescents have a heightened vulnerability to depression. Specifically, prevalence rates of major depressive disorder (MDD) have been shown to increase immensely from approximately 2% in early adolescence to 15% in middle adolescence (Hankin, Abramson, Moffitt, et al., 1998). The implications of adolescent depression include poorer educational and psychosocial outcomes and long-term psychiatric problems, leading to … Read more

Losing weight

There are several different ways and means of losing weight. Some people have surgeries, take pills, or starve themselves to death to reach this goal. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the expenses, health benefits, and the consequences of weight loss between these different methods. The best way to lose weight … Read more

Campaigns against tobacco and obesity

The campaign against obesity has of recent past be a major concern to the American government. Currently two thirds of the American citizenry struggle because of their weight issues or rather has obesity. As such, the general effects of the nation’s obesity epidemics is becoming more immense leading to businesses, communities and taxpayers hundreds of … Read more

Skeletal muscle atrophy

Important insights have been made concerning the molecular and genetic bases of skeletal muscle atrophy and aging in cell culture and animal models, but little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms of skeletal muscle atrophy with aging and disuse in humans. Certain controversy exists in the literature regarding whether muscle atrophy in human skeletal … Read more

Parkinson's disease (PD)

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive, lingering, and usually fatal movement disorder. Progressive meaning the symptoms are always present and worsen over time. This disease is wide spread and there are nearly one million people in the U.S. that have Parkinson’s. This disease does not have a known cure yet, but you can treat and … Read more

Chronic kidney disease (CKD)

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is frequently associated with a progressive decrease in glomerular filtration rate (GFR), which leads to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The number of patients with CKD as well as ESRD is increasing markedly worldwide, with poor outcomes and high cost. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is closely associated with CKD and ESRD and is … Read more

Stem cells

Stem cells are undifferentiated cells they can change into cells that are specialized. They can split up to create more of themselves. They are found in humans and animals. They are special because they are regenerative and malleable. They can also replicate themselves and repair and replace other tissues in the human body. There are … Read more

The Tuskegee Study of untreated syphilis (bioethics)

The Tuskegee Study of untreated syphilis was one of the most horrible scandals of of the twentieth century. It was a clinical study conducted between 1923 to 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute in Macon County, Alabama. The purpose of the study was to record the natural course of untreated … Read more

Canavan disease

Name of the disease is Canavan disease. It has the alternative names such as Canavan-van Bogaert-bertrsnd disease, ASPA deficiency, ASP deficiency, Aminoacylase 2 deficiency. The disease is mainly a hereditary disorder which causes nerve damage with time is gone (US national library of Medicine, 2013). The disease is mainly caused on the gene ASPA of … Read more

Ionizing radiation for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) represents the seventh most common cancer globally with approximately 47,000 new cases reported every year [1]. Cigarette smoking/tobacco consumption is a major cause of HNSCC [2- 4]. Around 50% of the 10.9 million people diagnosed with cancer worldwide each year require RT, 60 % of which are treated … Read more

Bladder overactivity

Urinary bladder overactivity E symptoms are observed both in functional and organic morbidities of the bladder. One of clinical circumstances associated with development of symptoms of secondary overactive bladder syndrome (OAB) is hemorrhagic cystitis caused by therapy with drugs belonging to the group of oxazaphosphorins, especially with cyclophosphamide (CP). The drug is still commonly used in … Read more

Marijuana: Medical, Industrial, and Recreational Considerations

Marijuana is one of the most controversial substances today. Classified by the federal government as an illegal drug yet legalized in several states, the data on its addictiveness, effects, and potency seems conflicting. However, recent research is clarifying marijuana’s properties. This research demonstrates that marijuana is not as destructive as the government claims. It has … Read more

Dissertation: Studies on Porcine Diabetic Nephropathy

Abstract Background: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a disease that is increasing in the entire world today. Diabetic Nephropathy (DN) is a common complication in human patients with DM, and is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate kidney function, gene expression and glomerular histopathology in … Read more