Essays on Disease

Age-related diseases are commonly noticeable among older adults. Alzheimer’s Disease (also called senile dementia), for instance, affects the central nervous system and is known to worsen over time. It begins in the hippocampus and slowly travels throughout the regions of the cerebrum. Signs of this…

The Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) partnered with Kaiser Permanente in 1995 to 1997, to conduct the original Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. Adverse Childhood Experiences are traumatic events that can have negative effects on health and well-being as a person mature. Kaiser Permanente…

ABSTRACT We are presented with a 43-year-old, Gravida 0, from Samar, Philippines, with last menstrual period on April 7, 2016, presenting with Abnormal Uterine bleeding of 5 months duration. Total Abdominal Hysterectomy Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy with frozen section, Peritoneal fluid cytology, Omentectomy bilateral lymph node dissection,…

Obesity Obesity is a medical condition when an individual’s weight is higher than what is considered as a healthy weight for a given height (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). A screening tool used to define obesity is a BMI or body mass index….

Many organizations, at some point or another, have to face a crisis situation. The way an organization communicates during a crisis situation is the key way to break through that crisis. A crisis can be defined as a situation where a company faces a problem…

Influenza is different from most diseases, most people have had a strain of it at some point in their life and don’t know about it. However, an outbreak of a strain of Influenza (Spanish Flu) killed as many as 100,000,000 people worldwide. Since, this 2018…

Obesity is a medical condition where the body has stored excess fat that might have a negative effect on health. Obesity happens when there is imbalance between the energy intake and energy output. Being obese depends on the kind of lifestyle one lives, environment factors,…

PEDV is a single stranded RNA virus, positive¬ sense, that belongs to the genus Alphacoronavirus in the family Coronaviridae. The size of the genome is ~ 28 kb and contains 5′ cap and a 3′ poly A tail. There are 7 open reading frames (ORFs)…

Jack BahjatI was born with Muscular Dystrophy disability, and when I was a kid, things were a lot easier. For instance, the only thing I was thinking of were toys. However, after I grew up, I discovered that whenever I talk to a person, whether…

Cularkistan has a weak health system. There is only one national hospital, that operates substantially below international standards. There are community health workers and a clinic for every 25,000 people but workers are not usually well trained. Aid is needed, and the United States government…