Essays on Medical Science

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Depression is a kind of mental disorder that can affect people’s feelings and everyday activities. It needs medical and psychological care, otherwise, it can cause such a fatal result as a suicide. Depression has its own symptoms and types that depend on different circumstances. Contemporary medical science has different methods of cure for depression that help people to overcome and even prevent it. Depression has been known from the ancient times and was considered as the demonic possession. Priests were the people responsible for it and they used exorcism as the method of the treatment. With the development ...

The article “A Brief History of Medical Diagnosis and the Birth of the Clinical Laboratory”, by Darlene Berger, is an interesting read, which thoroughly explores the subject at hand. This article, which is Part 1 in a series of four articles, discusses medical advances from. “Ancient times through the 19th century.” Berger makes very succinct observations about advances in medicine and the advent of the clinical laboratory. She does an excellent job of objectively discussing many of the important discoveries in medical history, providing stirring examples of success and of failure in the context of medical history, and cites ...

The mortality rate in the U.S. goes along a straight and inevitable path of decrease. For the last more than 200 years it was constantly dropping. The life expectancy at birth has increased for 40 years – from 35 in the eighteenth century to 75 years nowadays. We owe such great achievements to the advances in medical science along with economic and everyday life improvements. It is very important to mention that most of the people even nowadays do not die their natural deaths; illnesses remain the reason that causes the most of the mortality. It is a bit shocking ...

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Blood sugar medical conditions have plagued the world over centuries and mankind has developed several measures to the cope with this metabolic dysfunction occurring in their bodies. Even when medical science had no answers reports were that people used various herbs to cure the disease which doctors have subsequently determined is incurable. In the following pages of this presentation an account of one such blood sugar disorder would be presented I terms of assessing ...

Kohonen Network

While not the first of its kind, the Self-Organizing Map is a form of artificial neural network that became useful because of its use in visualizing and analyzing high-dimensional data on a low-dimensional scale. It gained its common name, the Kohonen Network, after a Finnish professor by the name of Teuvo Kohonen introduced it to the world .

What made it different from early neural network models is the fact that in these early neural network models, the self-organizing power was weak; thus this made the Kohonen Network crucial is that is composed no less than two interacting subsystems which are different in ...

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The present assessment involves the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, which is located in Dallas. The facility is an 898-bed acute-care infirmary that treats complicated medical cases in North Texas. The assessment focuses on the quality of health care offered at the facility, as well as other facilities in the country, and explores ways of improving the services.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) observes that the U.S. health care system does not offer consistent and high-quality medical care to every citizen. Consequently, the health care system routinely fails to provide its potential benefits to all people. IOM notes that between ...

Animal testing refers to the scientific research and experiments conducted on the animals. Animal testing is not new to the society and existing for past several years. Every year millions of animals are used for commercial testing and research purposes. Advocates of animal testing claim that it is essential for development of new life-saving medicines and treatments, especially in absence of any other suitable alternative method. Opponents of animal testing claim that it is inhuman to perform experiments on innocent animals, when alternative methods are available to scientists. Testing on animals also does not provide hundred percent assurance of ...

Human embryo stem cell research is an emerging field in medical science which has raised serious ethical issues. It is still a matter of debate whether or not this technique should be employed for the research purpose and what would be the end result of the embryo. Since the research process has advanced a lot, the prime focus at the present time is not to decide whether or not it should be done but to determine ways to maintain the privacy. The government looked into the matter of human stem cell research because those derived from animal sources had potential ...

Description of 3D Printing and Associated Science

Over the past decade, technological advancements and general progress have indeed changed or rather revolutionized human life and activities. Through the advanced technology both in hardware and software, people can now interact, communicate and complete different tasks in a more efficient and effective manner than before. The efficiency is because of how technology has influenced how we operate. Computing and Information technology has seen the rapidest and noticeable development in the past few years. These changes have affected the society, businesses and human life over the past few years. Through technology, one can achieve more socially, industrially and commercially. 3D ...

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In the Preface to his Books on the Fabric of the Human Body, Andreas Vesalius discusses the problem of surgery in the medical science of his time – Late Renaissance. He argues that, historically, there have been three major methods of curing the diseases: treatment with medications, dietary regimen and surgery, meaning that you have to apply your “own hands” to treat a particular disease. To the physicians and scientists of the Ancient Greece it was obvious that those three methods are equally useful and closely related with each other and, moreover, they cannot be separated. Vesalius notes that the ...

- Introduction There have been a number of important changes in the world in recent years, and many of these changes are due to technology. There are very few technologies that have not changed with time, and many of these technologies have evolved to make humanity live easier, more comfortable lives. Examining how technology has allowed us to live easier lives can be investigated in a number of different ways. There are now computers we can carry in our pockets; our car can give us directions to the nearest restaurant, and we live much longer lives thanks to advances in ...

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Police department is considered to be evolved throughout the world on the basis of criminals and their modern ideas of the criminal activities. We will try to look at the various aspects of the society and its connection with the police or role of the law enforcement agencies. We will try to lay the foundation of the study on the information gathered from several sources that are subjected to the researched reports and intellectual work done on the book written by Roberg. The police department is considered to be an important governmental institution and it must be organized merely ...

- Introduction Euthanasia, sometimes called assisted suicide, is the practice of allowing an individual suffering from a significant, terminal illness or injury to end their life before the injury or illness takes them. The idea of euthanasia is to allow the individual freedom from pain and suffering; proponents of the practice suggest that euthanasia allows people to avoid the pain and humiliation that can come from long-term palliative care. Euthanasia is a process through which medical personnel or families help the patient to end his or her life. There are certain situations that are not considered euthanasia-- such as “ ...

It's been virtually impossible to spend any time conscious in the past few weeks and not be very aware of the arrival of the Ebola virus in Texas. Thanks to the new innovations of social media and the timeless human tradition of panic and gossip, the public has vented rage at the Centers for Disease Control, at the city health department in Dallas, and even the two brave nurses who were simply doing their best to provide medical care to a man with a disease that would end up not only taking his life but threaten theirs as well. In an ...

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The concept of abortion as a deliberate termination of pregnancy, not as the spontaneous event called miscarriage, is tenuous to define because such definition varies according to its contexts, be it legal, bioethical, religious, or even cultural. In the legal aspect there are issues on rights, quasi-rights, personhood, and potentiality (International Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2, 4-5). In the moral (as well as bioethical and religious) side (3-4), there is moral right, “at birth” notion of the human person, viability, “first movement” argument, consciousness and ability to feel pain, and unicellular zygote as the ...

Embryonic stem cell is a crucial factor in the developmental process of a multicellular organism. Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are derived at early stages during development and eventually give rise to all type of tissues and organs in an animal. The ES cell lines have three properties consisting of self-renewal, primary chimera formation and pluripotency [1]. Pluripotency, a key feature of ESCs, refers to the capacity of a cell to differentiate into several different types of tissues [2]. An array of cellular factors play important role in maintaining pluripotency and determining cell fate in the developmental pathway. Negative effects on these factors may ...

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Cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases of all time. It was considered as a disease that cannot be remedied except for the medical breakthroughs in the past half century. So deep is cancer’s fear that it instills depression in its sufferers as soon as its name is mentioned. However, thanks to medical breakthroughs it is curable and the media emphasizes on this night and day. What is cancer and how does it spread, what are its kinds and how it influences the society? An attempt has been made answer these questions in the following article. Keywords: ...

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Regular exercise is known to be a therapeutic lifestyle factor. It is not a drug, but it possesses many traits of a powerful pharmacologic agent. Routinely performing physical activity (PA) stimulates many beneficial physiologic changes in the body (O’Keefe, 2012). Age is associated with increases in body weight, body fat, and abdominal fat. Besides as age advances, many people tend to spend time in sedentary activities. Fifty-five to sixty years is the age when people retire from their services; and this sets a sedentary lifestyle for most. Sedentary lifestyle, as is widely known, is associated with obesity, diabetes, cancer, and/or cardiovascular diseases ( ...

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Millions of elderly people worldwide have been living or are currently in nursing homes or assisted living facilities in our country (Karatay & Kublay 2010). Mr. Robbins is one of them and our research focuses on his failing health condition and how a nursing home could help to control his deteriorating health. Mr. Robbins may be a patient who has been recovering from a health disorder but he is not depressed and disorganized as some patients of his age have been observed to be. It is a harsh fact that many people during their old age are abandoned and left out by their families ...

The Human Genome Project has been developed by the collaboration of US Department of Energy and National Institute of Health, in order to determine the basic building pairs of human DNA which exist in a sequence. Thus in this way, scientist would become able to identify different stages of human evolution with the help of a process known as transcript mapping. This mapping includes identification of those genes which are protein encoded and converts themselves into messenger RNAs during the event of expressing. In this way, they can be separated in the form of complementary DNAs and can be further used ...

Death is a certain phenomenon of life. Everyone who arrives in this world has to die ultimately; however, the date, time and manner of death of each and every person is not defined and hence, it would be wise to make the time as much advantageous as possible. Moreover, the advancements in technology have made the life span longer than of those from the past. Today, medical science has been evolved from typical classical approaches towards a better and more scientific means of equipments and descriptions. Treatments of severe diseases like cancer and tumors is possible today and thus many lives can ...

This chapter provides substantial information about opium and opioids. The chapter delves into a number of issues regarding opium. These include its extraction, historical issues, its role in the wars between China and Great Britain, its active components, how the typical opioid user has changed over the years, how the supply of heroin has changed over the years, and laws that have been put in place to address the abuse of opium. Interestingly opium, a juice from the Papaver Somniferum plant has had a history of medical use of about 600 years long. Some of the medical science problems that opium solved ...

Having been involved in several cases, Daniel Groll’s intention to provide a lasting solution to this problem intensified. His intentions are to develop a model for understanding disagreements in a clinical setting. Groll at providing insight into what doctors can and cannot plausibly be said to know regarding what’s best for their patients. Groll deals with this by developing taxonomy of clinical disagreements. Groll’s secondary aim is to show that Robert M. Veatch’s theory on what on what clinicians can and cannot about their patients’ well-being is overly skeptical and limits the role. In the article, Groll presents a ...

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Protecting the Right to Act Autonomously: A Philosophical Argument for Euthanasia

There is a long tradition of support for voluntary euthanasia in Western civilization. The ancient Greeks and Romans “did not believe that life needed to be preserved at any cost and were, in consequence, tolerant of suicide in cases where no relief could be offered to the dying” The ancient schools of philosophy, the Stoics and Epicureans, believed that an individual who no longer wanted to live and chose to commit suicide should be supported in their decision. Thomas More, writing in the 16th century, foresaw a utopian community in which individuals suffering from intolerable pain and burdened by ...

Part 1:- Health Promotion

Introduction - Application of Health Indicators to estimate Community and US health Status

- Analysis of how determinant os health influence quality of life of older adults

- Evaluation of effectiveness of Health promotion Message

- Identify risk factors that create disparities

Part 11: Common Health Problems: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment

Introduction - Description of Chronic disease and risk factors (Type 11 diabetes mellitus)

Estimate my chances of developing chronic diseases as I age

Describe preventative plan – primary, secondary and tertiary - Discuss age at which prevention should begin

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This presentation embodies discussions on two major aspects of health related to older adults. They are ...

Morality of Abortion

Before judging the morality behind the act of abortion we must emphasize on ‘what is abortion’ and ‘why it is generally performed’. The act of abortion can be defined as the removal of immature fetus from the womb of a human female with her consent. It is, no doubt, an unpleasant action but the doer has more than one reason to perform it. The act itself dates back thousands of years back and it will continue till Jesus comes with certainty. As custodians of our health, doctors have had the privilege of carrying out this process on whosoever desires. The ...

With Regard To Current Scientific Developments

Science has been described as an organized body of knowledge based on observation and experimentation. It is the systematic study of the characteristics and behaviour of all things in the universe. There seems to be a strong desire in humans to constantly expand this body of knowledge as well as to interpret the observations made and even control what we think we understand about the various aspects of our universe. It is the perception of some that science has gone too far in its quest for understanding, manipulation and control. However, since science is such a broad area of knowledge it is ...

This paper covers the brief history of the physician assistant occupation to provide insight into the circumstances under which that profession was developed and continues to examine the contemporary education requirements and roles of physician assistants in healthcare. By observing the contemporary education requirements and roles of physician assistants in healthcare, it is possible to notice that physician assistants are cost-effective, and they produce positive impacts in both economy and healthcare. Although physician assistants are trained to perform diagnostic tests, assign treatments, and help physicians alleviate some of their time to treat more patients, contemporary healthcare places significant emphasis ...

Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Research methods used in articles

The human brain is a receptacle of knowledge and reasoning and man has always had an inherent ability to think, analyze argue and conclude. The concept of critical thinking as a form of analysis has its roots during the time of Socrates. He believed that man should not blindly accept view- points placed before them by people in seats of power. Men are fallible and prone to confused thinking and empty rhetoric. It is important to analyze on the basis of knowledge, available data and insight. RH Ennis (2003) described critical thinking as, focussed thinking based on sound reasoning and reflections ...

Advance in medical science and study of behavioural science is a great boon to human beings. We live in a world that is riddled with ailments related to mental and physical health conditions. The workings of the human brain is, still a big mystery to medical science but technology and advancement in science helps us to identify certain behavioural ailments very early in life. One of the most common among them is “Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder” (ADHD). As the name suggests the disorder causes unusual hyperactivity and lack of attentiveness in young children. Research shows that as the child grows, this disorder ...

Imagine having a 50% chance of congenital heart disease; of being infertile and unable to have children. Think about having a statistically greater chance of acquiring a plethora of conditions, including epilepsy, leukemia and hearing loss. These are the everyday conditions of a select group of people who have been born with Down's Syndrome. This genetic condition is currently the most recognizable type of mental disability known to man, and is present in millions of individuals throughout the world. In this presentation, we will examine the symptoms of Down's syndrome, as well as the research into its management and treatment.

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Zora Neale Hurston’s short story “Sweat” and Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” both feature complex relationships between spouses – particularly, that the women are victimized by their husbands to both subtle and overt extents. While Gilman’s narrator is a frustrated, confused individual who is locked up by her husband while failing to blame him, Delia in “Sweat” is a more determined, sane and vengeful individual, her constant victimization leading her to dramatic action (or inaction) that leads to disastrous consequences for her husband Sykes. What’s more, in “Sweat” we hear from Sykes’ perspective as well, learning both sides ...