The brain is the most intricated organ in the human body. It is very possible to live a full and happy life without knowing the first thing about the anatomy and physiology of the brain. Although, if one is interested in learning the components of the brain, on how the brain functions, or how it fails to function properly, you will be amazed on how incredible this organ is. The brain enables us to speak, imagine, or solve everyday problems. […]
Infertility is the failure to attain a successful pregnancy after 12 or more months of regular unprotected intercourse. There are approximately 10 to 15 percent of US couples that are in their reproductive years and are infertile. For a female to be fertile it is necessary for there to be cervical mucus, a clear passage between the cervix and tubes, tubes must be patent with normal motility, ovulation and release of an ova must occur, no obstruction between ovaries and […]
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Get help with your assignmentInfertility is explained as being unprotected naturally and not being able to get pregnant for more than 1 year despite regular intercourse. Also, couples who could not carry a pregnancy to the end, namely those who lost after being pregnant, are included in this definition. However, new methods offered by today’s advanced technologies to medicine serve hope for couples who cannot have children in normal ways. One of the most used methods in this regard is in vitro fertilization. Infertility, […]
Did you know that about 16,616 people die from brain cancer or tumors a year (Brain Tumors By The Numbers)? Some kinds of brain tumors don’t show symptoms we acknowledge. This article will explain some symptoms of brain tumors and a few real life cases. To understand brain tumors better, you need to know how they form. Brain cancer is a disease that starts in the cells of our brain. Genes inside each cell order it to grow, work, reproduce, […]
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in sports are often as a result of physical contact with another player or stationary object, and one of the most common sports that has a higher number of head injuries is the American football. The American football widely known as football in the United States is a game played by two teams of eleven players on each side on a rectangular field with goal posts at each end (Baugh & Kroshus, 2016). The link between […]
There are three famous brain lesion patients in history Phineas Gage, Tan, and HM. These lesions were important case studies to scientist so they can understand more about the brain. In the 1800’s Phineas Gage was a railroad construction foreman who one day on his job used a tamping iron, to pack explosive powder into a hole. This became an explosive action that sent the tamping iron rod through his cheek going into his brain. In reality, Phineas didn’t die, […]
Have you ever stepped on an ant mound and got bitten by Fire Ants? Fire ants are an invasive species, which were originally from Africa. Humanity has introduced non-native species into different climates for many purposes. The fire ant, along with the quagga mussel and different kinds of fungi diseases, were accidentally introduced all over the world by humans. These are called invasive species. Some present new problems and are harmful to the ecosystem while others don’t threaten the ecosystem […]
According to the American Cancer Society, cancer is “a group of diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. It is predicted that approximately 1.7 million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed by the end of 2018” (Siegel, Miller, & Jemal, 2018, p. 7). Many physical and emotional burdens are associated with the diagnosis of cancer. Pain that is difficult to manage is a common physical burden amongst patients with this disease. More than half […]
Music has worked its way into the daily lives of most people and has the power to calm, motivate, and inspire. According to the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA), music therapy is a conventional health profession that uses music to address and improve the physical, psychological, cognitive and/or social functioning for patients of all ages and disabilities. Music therapy is the use of music to accomplish individualized goals of a patient in a therapeutic setting. Music therapists work with a […]
Music and Dance are not only very important art forms but also deeply rooted in the Indian culture. However in the recent years, music and dance have also been used to treat various psychological and physiological illnesses. Dance and music therapy have been formally established in the twentieth century. Before this, there have been anecdotal evidences of how music and dance help a person suffering from an illness of either mind or body, but since the 1950s there have been […]
The word aging has negative connotations associated with it despite the inevitability of the process. All living organisms age, the only alternative to it is death. Advances in medicine, and the ability to make more informed choices regarding diet and lifestyle, have enabled people to live longer, healthier lives. The debilitating effects of aging are being postponed as people invest in living a more health conscious life. Slogans such as, “40 is the new 30”, are declarations of a revolutionary […]
For America to enhance health equity, it would be generous if there are joint endeavors for the countries to guarantee that they battle to ensure that there is racial equity. The medicinal system for the US ought to be one that gives measure up to human services to each person. The primary viewpoint that influences the arrangement of medicinal services by most social insurance calling is that they keep on remaining uninformed of the racial predispositions that they display unknowingly. […]
One important contributing factor to the quality of life of an individual is access to health care and the quality of care they receive. In the United states many are fortunate to have numerous resources for healthcare, but there are still those whose care is inhibited by communication barriers related to culture. “Culture is defined as the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, beliefs, customs, lifeways, arts, and all other products of human work and thought characteristics of a population […]
The mid-nineteenth century was a period of time where individuals started to become more aware of their health and overall well-being. During this time the public had no real prior knowledge of self-care and overall health, which eventually lead to many health fads. The overall concept of cleanliness had become a necessity in regards to addressing an individual’s health. Women were seen as the ones that were needed to take care of the families health and needed to be healthy […]
Hobbies are often defined as as something done for enjoyment, but what if I told you about a hobby that can offer you so much more? Volunteering at a local hospital is a rewarding hobby, as it provides health benefits, the feeling of accomplishment in the community and social network, and opens the door to career paths. The benefits of your health are just one of the great things of volunteering at a hospital. When you are there to help people […]
Within, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, doctor Oliver Sacks tells his experiences conducting a series of case studies and producing critiques for the medical community. Sacks states, “Neurology’s favorite word is ‘deficit’, denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties)” (3). Sacks feels that the medical community, […]
The world has become increasingly more knowledgeable throughout the course of history regarding the field of medicine. Many plagues viruses and diseases have swept the globe over decades that have past throughout history. Prior to these catastrophic events humanity has come to learn from mistakes and procedures that can be done to prevent further disaster and damage to the world. Vaccines, medications, and sanitation requirements are just a few of many implementations that have been added to make humanity safer […]
“The functions of sleep are not fully understood or fully explained by science and this has led to the undervaluation of sleep by health professionals. Traditionally thought is that perhaps inactivity was a survival mechanism during the vulnerable period of night or a way to conserve energy, but more recent research suggests that sleep is a complex combination of restoration for both the body and more importantly, the brain (Why Do We Sleep, Anyway?). There are 4 stages of sleep, […]
Drugs have been around for many years and can affect the body in positive and negative ways. All drugs produce a chemical which may have a therapeutic or non-therapeutic effect. When drugs were first introduced to people they were only used for medical use or in religious rituals. Opioid addiction is a serious issue and I will show how opioid use is becoming more accessible. Opioid use has become an epidemic, and everyday more than 130 people die after overdosing […]
In “The Case Against Libertarian Arguments for Compulsory Vaccination,” Justin Bernstein argues that justifying compulsory vaccination through a policy that promotes welfare is illogical. Bernstein states that welfare argument is invalid because the state is only vindicated in protecting negative rights. Since welfare is not a primary objective, libertarians cannot rightfully justify compulsory vaccination policy. To support this claim Bernstein analyzes separate attempts made by libertarians Robert Nozick and Jessica Flannigan to justify compulsory vaccination. The examples Bernstein includes are […]
Abstract This paper is written several different journals about down syndrome. The journals include Journal Biomedical Science, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, and the New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences. Information was also pulled from website of the Center of Disease Control and Prevention and also the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities. The information was analyzed and was used to explain the characteristics, impact of the disability, causes, educational interventions, family role of […]
I am interested in becoming a psychologist because it is a dream career of mine since my high school days. I developed an interest in psychology because of the area it covers when it comes to human treatment and the miraculous way of how the brain works. Psychologist deals with treating and diagnosing the human mind and treating diseases associated with the brain, emotions and behavior problems. I am fascinated by the human mind and how this affects our feelings […]
Alcoholism is a type of alcohol use disorder – a condition where an individual can’t control their use of alcohol, is engrossed with it, or keeps on utilizing it notwithstanding when it causes issues throughout their life (Levinthal, 2014). Alcohol abuse is a sort of substance habit. Similarly, as with numerous different addictions, alcohol is a ceaseless ailment, as characterized by the American Medical Association (Levinthal, 2014), which impacts the reward, memory, and inspiration frameworks of the cerebrum. This, thus, […]
In 2017, European doctors were tasked with saving Hassan, a young boy, who was fighting for his life. He was suffering from the life-threatening genetic disease, epidermolysis bullosa. This caused Hassan to have extremely fragile skin that was torn, blistered, and prone to skin cancer. The doctors implemented gene therapy to cure this genetic disease and grow new skin for the boy. This eight month process ended up being a success and allowed Hassan to wake up from a […]
We are presented with a moral dilemma in genetic engineering. This is how far we should go in genetic engineering and where should draw the line. Genetic engineering has evolved in last few years in different ways. More people use genetic engineering on themselves, their children, and animals. When more people start to use genetic engineering people will start to change things that were not supposed to be changed. Once scientist master curing simple genetic disorders with genetic engineering […]
I choose to do my final project on bipolar disorder. According to statistics and research. In a given year, bipolar disorder affects about 5.7 million American adults, or about 2.6% of the U.S. population 18 and older, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Bipolar stacked with feeling issue are one of the essential wellsprings of enduring deficiency around the world. From the point of view of contamination related cost the aggregate budgetary effect of bipolar issue is evaluated […]
Public health advocacy campaigns play a vital role in creating public awareness on a particular health issue of interest. The idea behind public health campaigns is to sensitize persons on the need to adopt specific cautionary measures to enable them manage the transmission and or infectivity of a health condition. It is important to point out here that there exists diverse definitions of public health. For the purpose of this paper, public health is used to broadly refer to the […]
Question 1 Sigafoos et al. (2003) note that an adequate awareness of medical problems (mental health issues included) is essential for proper understanding of challenging behaviour in order to provide effective support to people with developmental disabilities and challenging behaviours. Unlike people without developmental disabilities, persons with developmental disabilities tend to be more prone to a number of mental and medical problems hence the need to promote their health and well-being. This paper describes two factors that are considered in […]
Dementia refers to a type of progressive condition that eventually affects a person’s mental ability, making them unable to remember and comprehend the most basic tasks and facts of their daily lives. These people forget basic things such as time, date, place names and even their own names. This has a significant effect on their speech and ability to communicate effectively as they lack coordination of basic structures of communication such as tense (Kong, 2005). Communication with people with dementia […]
Introduction Geriatric and mental health conditions should be highly taken into consideration by the management of health providers. The delivery of health services can be managed through evaluating various concepts associated to the performance of the health institutions on personal basis. This discussion evaluates the support planning that is available for the geriatric and mental health challenges. The discussion basically deals with the impact assessment of providing support to an individual that has dementia and other conditions of the geriatric […]
