Essays on Alternative Medicine

Henrietta Lacks “HeLa cells” is whom I call the mother of Science, heroine of medicine, and the mother of life. She was a young woman in her thirties when she was admitted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital with an incurable cancer of the cervix in…

Herbal based products have gained an increasing amount of popularity over recent years due to its availability and natural origin. Ayurveda, an alternative medicine practice with roots from India, has been used for over thousands of years and is still widely used today in the…

Life is not a bed of roses. It includes happiness and sadness. We get injured or wounded by accidents or other reasons and we need to heal ourselves to get well again. We usually go to medical doctors and take medicines to heal our wounds…

I almost always hated watching the news nowadays. The never-ending chaos between politicians, newborn babies being abandoned in cemeteries, people killed by other people or of natural calamities, or worse, people killing themselves – it is not so often do we receive good news anymore….

In patients with chronic alcoholism, obesity, or viral hepatitis (Type B and C), the parenchyma of the liver becomes fibrotic; chronically leading to liver cirrhosis. The permanent scarring of tissue within the liver’s venous system obstructs portal vein outflow, resulting in elevated blood pressure in…

Flowers (2018) describes cultural competence as developing an understanding of one’s existence through thoughts, sensations, and environment without letting it have an unnecessary impact on those from other backgrounds. Betancourt et al. (2003) explains cultural competence in a healthcare setting to understand the importance of…

Abstract: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia (ARVC/D) is an acquired myocardial infection described by fibro‐fatty substitution of the privilege ventricular myocardium. Influenced patients may surrender to sudden cardiovascular passing (SCD) and ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VTA). Hereditary investigations have distinguished causative changes in qualities encoding proteins of the…

Background According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health is defined not only as the absence of disease, but also as a state of physical, psychological and social well-being as an individual, as well as collectively. Thus, the concept of public health acknowledges the fact…

ROLE OF CETP IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES: HDL has an atheroprotective nature. It is due to various mechanisms like antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, antithrombotic and antiapoptotic effects. CETP mediates the transfer of triglycerides (TG) an cholesteryl ester (CE) between lipoproteins like HDL, LDL, VLDL etc. CETP generally works…

Last week Sunday, on my way back from church, I decided to stop at shop rite to do a little shopping, while waiting at the cash point to pay for my groceries, the lady standing right in front of me suddenly fell on the floor…