Category: Medicine

Introduction Relationship-centered care (RCC) is a clinical philosophy that emphasizes partnership, careful attention to the relational process, shared decision-making, and self-awareness (Suchman, 2006). The RCC is characterized as patient-centered...

1. For the human body, copper is one of the most important substances, being an essential trace element. In the body, copper concentrates in bones, muscles, brain, blood, kidneys and liver. As a result, its deficit disrupts the normal work of the org...

Introduction The case chosen for the purposes of this paper is that of Elizabeth Rose Green, a 78-year-old woman living alone in her house. Elizabeth’s medical record is replete with diseases and surgeries, including gastro-oesophageal reflux dise...

Introduction Recent revolutionary breakthroughs in behavioral genetics, molecular biology, cognitive science, developmental neurobiology, and developmental psychology have considerably changed research methodologies and conceptual frameworks. This h...

Introduction East Indian Hindu Americans are people who have migrated from India to live in the United States with an objective for seeking a better way of life. The paper discusses East Indian American and Chinese cultures on the basis of their hea...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), named after the German doctors Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob, is considered the main manifestation of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or prion diseases (Porter & Leemans, 2013). CJD is al...

Introduction Among other issues, the healthcare services are also greatly affected by the globalization tendencies. The medical tourism becomes more and more popular as the developing countries start to offer high quality healthcare opportunities at...

Introduction Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs) belong to the Paramyxoviridae family and cause infections in the upper and lower respiratory tracts. There are four types of HPIVs (1-4), each responsible for different symptoms and diseases. This re...

Introduction Quality health care provisions must recognize clinical, social, and cultural needs of every patient who come to the medical facilities to seek help (Boyd-Franklin, 2013). The heritage assessment defines the degree to which the cultural...

Nursing is considered to be among the most versatile profession within the medical care profession. Since health care has advanced over the years, nursing profession has reinvented itself several times. Today, the role of nurses in medical institutio...

Von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL) is an autosomal dominant syndrome that leads to a diversification of tumors in patients. Von Hippel-Lindau disease results in appearance of tumors in numerous vital organs, such as central nervous system (CNS), eyes, k...

Streptomycetes are considered to be the most significant source of antibiotics that are employed for medical, agrarian and veterinary aims. They appeared about 450 million years ago being branched filamentous organisms suitable for the usage of plant...

Brachial plexopathy is an ache, pathlogy, injury, limited movement, or reduced feeling in the arm and shoulder as a result of a problem with nerves. It includes brachial plexus, a system in the nervous system in the lower neck and shoulder area where...

Human being cloning has in recent times been among the most sensitive issues facing humanity. Even though, cloning has drawn widespread debate, in some quarters of society, widely accepted. Whilst the majority of people, not in support of cloning of ...

Clinical breast examination (CBE), magnetic resonance imagine (MRI) and screening mammography are considered to be the effective tools for detecting occult cancers in women with an increased predilection for the developing of this disease. Mammograph...

Abstract In this essay, the main accent is on the peculiarities of sickle cell disease, its symptoms, pathophysiology, genetics, managements, prognosis, and epidemiology. Undoubtedly, sickle cell disease is one of the severest diseases that dramatica...

Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is a medical condition, which is characterized by a blood clot in the deep venous system. Deep venous thrombosis is a prevalent clinical issue that has affect on more than 250,000 people in the United States and 25,000 pe...

The reason of decrease of vision can be various. It may have genetic predisposition. Moreover, it depends on the lifestyle and working conditions. Jessica came with the decrease of vision in the left eye. Here is the time to perform the nursing proce...

Syphilis is an infection that is transmitted through direct exposure with aperson who has thedisease, in most cases duringthe process of sexual act. Syphilis is considered to be oneof themosthazardous sexually transmitteddiseases (STDs). The quantity...

It is known that natural killers (NK-cells) are a special population of cells of the innate immune system that play an important role in the antitumor and antiviral immunity. NK-cells are able to exert direct cytolytic effect on transformed or infect...

Chronic insomnia has an effect on over 15 per cent of the whole population and it is considered to be more prevailing comparing with cancer, AIDS, urinary problems, hearth diseases, diabetes, etc. Recently researches have evaluated the grand total of...

Public health is one the most important conditions of social security. However, rapidly spread epidemic causes panic and immorality in social interaction. Therefore, public awareness about virus and national campaign has various legal and social pecu...

In the contemporary world, thousands of people are dying of incurable diseases in hospices and health care centers, experiencing great pain, miserable sufferings, and depression. Terminally ill patients have no right to make up their mind whether to ...

Dr. Charles Ray Jones is a controversial expert on Lyme disease. He is famous for the method of treating people. Dr. Jones faced with accusing him of treating people without examining them and prescribing medicine for patients whom he has never seen....

Aging can be defined as the physical, psychological and physiological changes that occur in the individuals’ lives after the stage of maturity. From the biological perspective, aging is a continuous process that begins since childhood. It usually e...

Health literacy is a concept that has become increasingly important in the healthcare field in respect to promoting health care services in the contemporary society. Health literacy refers to the ability of individuals gather, process, understands an...

Introduction Diabetes is a very serious health problem in the USA. The problem has attracted much attention, because the number of people with this diagnosis has increased. Also, the age of people with the disease raises concerns: a lot of children...