Essays on Ferritin

Based on the clinical vignette, this patient is anemic and presents to the emergency department for symptoms relating to her condition. Based on the past medical history and the preliminary workup, one can have an idea of which type of anemia is occurring in this patient has and its underlying cause. Anemia can be divided into three categories based on the mean corpuscular volume (MCV) of the red blood cells: microcytic, normocytic, and macrocytic. In the physician’s report in the emergency room, it said that the patient’s red blood cells appeared microcytic and hypochromic. This information would ...

Introduction

Prenatal iron supplementation has been the customary recommendation in addressing maternal anemia especially in developing countries for over thirty years (West, et al., 2014). There is paucity of information regarding the correspondence between hemoglobin levels in pregnant women and iron supplementation. The limited information in this pertinent public health issue is more pronounced in developing countries as West, et al., (2014) opines. The main purpose of this research is thus to establish the efficacy of prenatal iron supplements on the hemoglobin levels of pregnant women in developing countries.

Research design

In order to achieve the study’s objective, the methodology will ...

Orphan Drug

Introduction The main purpose for the enactment of the U.S. Orphan Drug Act (ODA) of 1983 is to conduct a research on some of the rare diseases whose medical needs remain to be unresolved. The law has given incentives to various sponsors who have tried to develop therapies for some of the rare medical conditions that can affect at least 200,000 individuals on a yearly basis (Premiere Research 1). For this study, the objective is to create a regulatory strategy or path for Orphan Drug development, particularly on the oral iron chelator, one of the subsets of thalassemia or ...