Exploring the Importance of Stem Cells in Diabetes Treatments

Introduction Medicine is vital in today’s world as it improves the quality of people’s lives. Stem cells play a fundamental role in the scientific world as they have the potential ability to cure a variety of diseases. The rapid increase of stem cell research can evidently be shown in the recent articles, news scientific journals. … Read more

Effective feature extraction and classification of mammographic images for breast cancer diagnosis

Abstract: Screening and early detection of breast cancer needs an automated system that identifies the breast cancer in the mammograms as early as possible. The mammogram images are preprocessed by using median filter. The median filter removes the noisy pixels in the images and improves the performance. The breast masses are segmented using Otsu segmentation … Read more

Is Frozen Food Healthy?

Frozen foods are the preserved food items conserved during the time between their preparation and ultimate consumption. It is an age old trend as the fishermen, trappers and farmers had been preserving their games since a long time. Freezing the food items is generally the process of hindering the decomposition as it the residual moisture … Read more

Healthcare reform

The target population for this case study is the elderly. The elderly population is living longer than the previous decades. Not only are they living longer, but the racial ethnicity and diversity plays a factor in the longevity of our elderly. The majority of the patients that are 65 and older are receiving Medicare. Demographic … Read more

Health Disparities

Often the term ‘disparities’ is related to a specific racial or ethnic group of people, many variations of disparities exist in America, mainly in regards to health. If any outcome from health disparities can be ascertained is populations and regions in America. Healthy People 2020 creates a compilation of reports in an effort to pinpoint … Read more

Facts on Surrogacy

Surrogacy is a highly specialized process that leads to simpler biological birth of surrogacy baby. The infertility condition may mandate the use of gamete donor, at sperm cell donation & egg donation in surrogacy. This can lead to confusion in Intended parents and acceptance, at this reality is disheartening for most couples. The persuasive counseling … Read more

Brain imaging technologies

Brain imaging technologies are methods used in neuropsychology which allow researchers to see where specific brain processes take place. They also enable researchers to study localization of function in a living human brain and provide correlations between brain activity and behavior. Examples of the different types of brain imaging technologies used are the Electroencephalogram (EEG), … Read more

Steps to help you stop craving salt

About 60% of water is present in the human body. Salt is an electrolyte that helps to maintain an optimal level of fluids in the body. For having a proper blood circulation in the body, one needs to consume a little amount of salt every day. When people who eat a lot of salty foods … Read more

Learning for professional development

This essay will critically reflect and analyse one practical area of my learning need during my last placement, it will explore how the need was met on my current placement to enhance my continuing personal and professional development (CPPD). I used 60hours of researching and writing this essay in accordance with the Post ‘Registration Education … Read more

Coordinated School Health Programs (CSHP)

For the Point Mar case study, to approach and help alleviate the onset of type II Diabetes in obese children, I will apply evidence-based and appropriate health education strategies/ methodologies surrounding the implementation of a Coordinated School Health Program. A Coordinated School Health Program, (CSHP) is an efficient methodology aimed at improving the health and … Read more

What is an Infectious Disease Specialist?

It is a doctor for internal medicine who is an expert in diagnosing, and treating infectious diseases. Infectious Disease Specialists have a big knowledge of infectious of the sinuses, heart, brain, lungs, urinary tract, bowel, bones and pelvic organs. They have a whole lot of extra long training, which focuses on different kinds of infections, … Read more

Using the 6Cs (MDT) in the management of Cerebral Palsy (CP)

The Francis Report was released in 2013. This report outlined failures by individuals, tiers of management and regulators in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The Francis Report made 290 recommendations to prevent these failures in the future (Francis, 2013). One of these recommendations were that nurses, midwives and care staff, as well as stakeholders at … Read more

Benign cystic mesothelioma

Benign cystic mesothelioma (BCM) is a rare tumor with benign characteristic. It was first described in 1979 by Mennemeyer and Smith (1). About 141 cases of BCM have been reported, but only 8 cases in children have been found (1). Here we present a 2-year old boy with BCM originating from the liver. Benign cystic … Read more

Lung carcinoma

Globally, about 1.3 million people die annually from lung carcinoma. Although prophylactic and diagnostic advances, current therapy provide a low survival rate (15% at 5 years – American Institute for Cancer), because of the late diagnosis. Our study was performed on a 5-year case studies on lung cancers in County Hospital of Oradea, diagnosed on … Read more