Nursing and Healthcare Essays

Dental Biomaterials Standards and Quality Assurance
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Introduction:   Dental Biomaterials Standards and Quality Assurance Internal and external quality assurance are essential procedures required to ensure the materials put on to the marke...

Myopia (short-sightedness) is the most common eye condition in the world1.
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Introduction: Introduction   Myopia (short-sightedness) is the most common eye condition in the world1. In a myopic eye, the refractive power of the cornea and lens causes light rays from di...

Meningitis: Risk Factors, Pathophysiology and Clinical Manifestations
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Introduction: Meningitis Meningitis can be a life-threatening disease involving both the brain and spinal cord. The complexity of meningitis varies with the cause, which could be: viruses, bacteria, ...

Criticisms of Evidence-Based Medicine
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Introduction: “Evidence-Based Medicine tells us to use only evidence from clinical trials and high quality observational studies in making clinical decisions. That evidence is statistical, comprising summar...

Liquid Cytology: What Is It and How Does It Compare to Conventional Cytology?
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Introduction: Liquid Cytology: What is it and how does it compare to conventional cytology. Major advancements in cervical cancer screening have dramatically lowered the mortality rate worldwide. Cer...

Advances and Challenges for the Malaria Vaccine
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Introduction: Malaria is still a significant problem in third-world countries, what advances have been made in vaccine design and what are the challenges remaining? SUMMARY In a phase III cl...

Pain Treatments for Geriatric Patients
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Introduction: Pain is a complex and multidimensional experience targeted for improvement by healthcare organizations because of inadequate pain control. Poorly managed acute or chronic pain has a negative eff...

Electrospinning Nanofibers for Neural Tissue Engineering and Injuries
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Introduction: Electrospinning Nanofibers for Neural Tissue Engineering and Injuries: From Benchtop to Bedside Introduction Neural tissue engineering (NTE) seeks to address the limited t...

Metabolic Disease: Krabbe Disease
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Introduction: Metabolic Disease: Krabbe Disease Discovered in 1916 by Danish neurologist Knud Haraldsen Krabbe whom observed globoid cells in the brain, Krabbe disease (KD), or globoid cell leukodyst...

Isomerism as a Drug Degradation Pathway and Chiral Drug Formation
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Introduction: Isomerism as a drug degradation pathway and chiral drug formation   1. Introduction Process of drug degradation where a drug gets converted into its optical or ge...

Anatomy and Physiology of Cochlear Implants
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Introduction: Cochlear Implants Introduction Hearing loss impacts a large number of people at various points in their lives1. Whether a parent or grandparent has a hearing aid, or a loud con...

The Growing Potential for Phage Therapy
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Introduction: POSTNOTE The growing potential for Phage therapy The misuse of antibiotics has accelerated the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria to a point where clinicia...

Infectious Disease, Biological and Drug Defenses
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Introduction: Infectious disease, biological and drug defenses Word count: 2462 When a pathogen enters the body, the person becomes infected. Pathogens are a kind of parasite that s...

Cellulitis in Older Patients – a Prospective Cohort Study
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Introduction: CELLULITIS IN OLDER PATIENTS – A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY Older patient with cellulitis Abstract Aim: To examine differences in risk factors, clinical features and o...

Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) Causes, Treatment and Complications
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Introduction: Hypertension Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) Hypertension is the condition in which force of the blood pushing against artery vessel walls is too high. It is measured in mil...

History of Herbal Medicine
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Introduction: Thomas Bartram: medical herbalist, homeopath, naturopath and osteopath. He lived and worked in Christchurch, Dorset and was a Fellow of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists, the Royal So...

mGlu ligands for treating PD: mGluR5 antagonist & mGluR4 PAM
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Introduction: mGlu ligands for treating PD: mGluR5 antagonist & mGluR4 PAM Abstract Parkinson Disease has remained to be one of the biggest issue of the world mainly due its high preval...

Pompe Disease Causes and Management
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Introduction:           Pompe Disease is a disease that is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, meaning both parents must have one copy of the mutated gene (genetics home...

Mechanisms of Action for Ibuprofen
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Introduction: Question 1  James Miller is a 37-year-old builder who visits your pharmacy following a pain in his lower back. He has previously been taking co-codamol 8/500 Two tabs QDS for the l...

Emerging Infectious Diseases: Ebola
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Introduction: Emerging Infectious Diseases: Ebola   History of Emergence of Ebola  Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is a viral disease that first emerged in 1976 in Nzara, Sudan ...

Myocardial Infarction Pathophysiology, Studies and Treatments
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Introduction: Myocardial Infarction The heart needs a consistent supply of oxygen and nutrients.  Three coronary arteries are found in the heart, with two of them branching out to...

Indications for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Thin Melanoma
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Introduction: Indications for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Thin Melanoma: A Systematic Review Abstract   Skin cancer is the most common cause of cancer. Within the field of de...

Impact of Maternal Depression and Anxiety on Fetal Development
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Introduction: The Impact of Maternal Depression and Anxiety on Fetal Development Abstract  The purpose of this review paper is to briefly review past and present literature on the impac...

Alternative Splicing- a Double Edged Sword in Human Cancers
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Introduction: The human genome can be described as a complex, biological manual that encodes for the genetic instructions required to build and maintain an individual. Furthermore, as Charles Darwin famously ...

Ethics of Physician Assisted Suicide
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Introduction: Physician Assisted Suicide The ethical topic of interest within this paper is physician assisted suicide.  Physician assisted suicide is known as a person voluntarily taking their ...