Primary Health Care
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
Primary health care (PHC) is a fundamental and consistent approach that facilitates a holistic, community-based opportunity to provide individuals and families with accessible, comprehensive care. It encompasses community, society, individuals and adapted, accessible services, which are at the...
Alzheimer's Research and Advocacy
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
Such diseases include Alzheimer's, which is the neurodegenerative condition of people over the age of 65, and which causes cognitive and memory disorders to a great extent. It is not only the personal aspect that is at stake, but overall, social structures are affected, which urges...
Research methods - Dementia
Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies
Dementia, a chronic and progressive neurological disease afflicting millions of people globally, is a condition that lowers cognitive functions such as memory, reasoning, and problem-solving. Cancer is dealt with globally by identifying factors and preventing and supporting it.
Prep for Women Promotes HIV Prevention Options for Women
Case study - 4 pages - Medical studies
In this stage connected to preventing HIV and Prep, it is evident that people have started to recognize the advantages of using Prep as an effective way to prevent transmission. This change is caused by increased awareness derived from several sources like association with healthcare...
Cervical Cell Carcinoma
Case study - 5 pages - Medical studies
Lasting HPV (Human Papillomavirus) are known to cause more than 99% of all cervical cancers. Approximately 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer and 250,000 deaths due to cervical cancer are recorded every year worldwide. Majority of the cases (80%) are reported in developing countries. Women from...
Case-Based Learning - Sepsis
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
A 34-year-old nursery schoolteacher at 34 weeks' gestation contacted her community midwife complaining of a sore throat, feeling shivery and achy skin to 'flu-like' symptoms. She also reported nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and generally feeling unwell. The midwife arranged for...
Investigating mutation of human ?-globin gene by PCR
Case study - 6 pages - Medical studies
This comprehensive study investigates the molecular basis of sickle cell anaemia (SCA) by employing bioinformatics tools and PCR techniques to analyze mutations in the HBB gene. The research effectively differentiates between wild-type and mutant gene sequences by designing specific primers. The...
Investigating the osmotic fragility of erythrocytes and investigating the components making up human blood
Case study - 5 pages - Medical studies
The document is an example of project which can be submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the BSc (Hons) Degree in Biomedical Science. "This experiment is important because it teaches us how the blood is tested in labs for their osmotic fragility. (...)"
Evaluate and Discuss the Current UK Bowel Cancer Screening Programme
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
Bowel cancer sometimes referred to as colorectal cancer (CRC) is a disease that can be caused due to a multitude of factors. Statistically, it is known to be the third most diagnosed cancer after breast cancer and lung cancer (National Cancer Institute, 2013). CRC is also known to cause the...
The analysis of the link between posttraumatic stress disorder, stress-induced cortisol production, and heart disease
Case study - 5 pages - Medical studies
A number of links between posttraumatic stress disorder, cortisol, and heart disease have been established, although the final synthesis has yet to be developed. The pure correlation between heart disease and posttraumatic stress disorder has become a standard conclusion. Recent studies have...
On Slavery - a history of slavery and antislavery
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
Slavery is forced labor. In some quarters, it is considered the biggest tragedy in the history of humankind. Slavery is perceived as degrading and robbing people of their dignity and right to freedom. However, despite the negativity associated with slavery, slavery is not necessarily a bad thing...
Forensic Evidence - Making of the Fittest
Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies
Suspect identification is a complex process in the justice system. It is aimed at identifying perpetrators of crime by eliminating people from the list of possible suspect. In contemporary times, advancement in technology has seen the use of advanced techniques in forensic analysis to identify...
Political Theory review - Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Marx, K
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
The advanced learner's dictionary defines alienation as a state of being isolated from a group or activities that a person should be a part of. For example, keeping a person from their families fits in to the definition of alienation. There are many other applications of alienation, but this...
Efficacy of treatment approaches in out-patient therapy
Case study - 7 pages - Medical studies
Anti-depressant medications have been considered as the best outpatient treatment for most depressive disorders, despite the fact that reviews and evidence suggesting otherwise that evidence-based psychotherapies are just as effective as pharmacotherapy when it comes to treating major depressive...
Effects of intensive policing tactics (like writing lots of UF-250s and summonses) on the community
Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies
According to researches, evidences consistently showing that, in the minds of police officers, as well as civilians, being black and male is inextricably accompanied with beliefs of criminality and dreadfulness leading to a habituated reaction of distrust and alarm that then results into...
Emergency management based on a historical perspective - case study
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
Previous study proposes that emergencies are accidents and therefore are unforeseen. While the term emergency implies a condition of urgency and need, and thus implies lack of preparation and need for a response, this view is not accurate. While the incidence of accidents leads to crises, it is...
Management of CHD and other chronic illnesses
Case study - 7 pages - Medical studies
This report presents Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) also known as Coronary Artery Disease, a condition that affects a large number of people and which causes a lot death as it affect a most vital organ in the body - the heart. Once we have looked its definition, diagnosis and treatment options we...
Mental Health and Deviancy - 'From Madness to Mental Illness and Back Again'
Case study - 37 pages - Medical studies
Over the last few centuries, our perception of mental illness has changed considerably, from the view that the ‘insane' were a deviant group who needed, for the sake of society, to be controlled and hidden, through the age of psychiatry, medical-ism and cure whereby medicine became an agent...
The United Kingdom's Drinking Problem
Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies
Alcohol has been a part of British society for many centuries. The idea of drinking was started by kings and queens in many different forms around the 1500's. Drinks range anywhere from mildly alcoholic beverages like beer and wine to a number of stronger drinks such as gin and rum. There are...
Abortion argument
Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies
Abortion is a difficult topic. I am not a supporter of abortion in all cases, but in the case of the 17 year old pregnant girl whose boyfriend was killed in a car accident, I will argue that her choice for abortion was the right one for her situation. I will justify my position using Judith...
The effects of Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate) on Lemna minor
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
This experiment was done to determine how adding baking soda to Lemna minor's environment would affect its growth and survival. I hypothesized that adding a small amount of baking soda to the water would improve Lemna growth rates. However, the results of this experiment indicated my predictions...
Debarking surgery
Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies
Listening to a neighbor's dog bark constantly all day is enough to start a war in any residential neighborhood. Excessive barking is no doubt annoying and distracting, but is it really the dog's fault? A dog owner is responsible for training their dog to behave in an acceptable manner, especially...
Personal statement for residency application
Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies
It was during orthopedic surgical residency training that I came to deeply respect radiation oncology's pivotal role in medicine. As a resident, I cared for numerous patients with bone pain or impending pathologic fractures from primary bone tumors, metastatic disease, and multiple myeloma. I...
Sequential PET and local failure in patients being treated for Rhabdomyosarcoma
Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies
Local failure” has been defined as primary tumor growth any time following the last day of radiotherapy (RT) within or adjacent to the RT portal (but not in regional nodes) as assessed by physical examination and imaging (Wharam et al., 1997). The Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) Studies...
A spiritual procedure
Case study - 90 pages - Medical studies
The small studio apartment is cluttered with pizza boxes, cigarette butts, and ashtrays on the counters and floor. There are dishes in the sink, and numerous bottles of beer and wine on the desk. Also on the desk, next to the desktop computer, are many surgical textbooks and notebooks. Lee throws...
Euthanasia
Case study - 6 pages - Medical studies
A dying patient challenged me during my internship in the 1st year of nursing in the gastro-enterology north-east ward of Erasme Hospital. I had seen this person for six days (from 12 to 18 April 2008), and during these few days, her son made a euthanasia request for his mother to the medical...
Isokinetic strength
Case study - 8 pages - Medical studies
Injuries and age lead to progressive declines in muscular strength and lean muscle mass. Evidence exists that age-related and injury related declines in muscular strength and lean mass (Feigenbaum & Pollock, 1999) can be impeded following mechanical stress on the body resulting in the form of...
Case study: Early-episode psychosis as the onset of paranoid schizophrenia and the direction toward holistic and client-centered occupational therapy
Case study - 7 pages - Medical studies
The following paper will present a clinical assessment of the subject, provided by a Mental State Examination (MSE), in order to produce a diagnosis consistent with the current ICD-10 and DSM-IV-TR classifications of psychiatric disorders. After determining a diagnosis of the patient's mental...
A comparative study of the market potential of different cardiovascular drugs in the pharmaceutical industry
Case study - 56 pages - Medical studies
A sample size of 20 hospitals and 33 chemists was chosen from the region. The survey method chosen was pharmacy to pharmacy by conducting personal interview, the data collection was extended for over 45 days and 20 pharmacy in-charge and 33 chemists were interviewed and asked questions regarding...
How does dietary status affect carcinogenesis?
Case study - 10 pages - Medical studies
Cancer is a multi-factoral disease resulting from the perturbation of the normal regulatory processes of a cell. Cancer cells are generated from healthy cells by an accumulation of genetic alterations. These alterations can take the form of mutations, losses, amplifications or re-arrangements in...
