Bell's palsy

In the Washington post article titled, ‘Get Kids Vaccinated or Else, Parents Told’ it talks about how there were more than 2,300 students who had not received the state required vaccinations to allow their students into the school system. In Prince George’s county, the students are required to receive vaccines for the chicken pox and hepatitis B to go to school, the county reached out to all the parents and tried to inform the parents of the severity of the situation. After the deadline of the…

co-author of the 2011 IOM report "Committee to Review Adverse Effects of Vaccines," summarized the findings of her reports, "The MMR vaccine does not cause autism… The MMR and DTaP do not cause Type 1 diabetes. And the killed flu vaccine does not cause Bell’s palsy, and it does not trigger episodes of…

In The Empathy Exams, Jamison interweaves her own life experiences within a medical actor’s script as she explores the ways people give and receive empathy to demonstrate the systematic way in which empathy is achieved. In her book, Trusting Performance, Naomi Rokotnitz explores how performances work to “[open] new avenues for communication and encouraging trust.” However, by analyzing the ways Jamison’s patient outline functions to hinder and uncover problems in the idea of empathy itself, I…

Why It's Real A recent study revealed that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have low levels of cytokines in their blood, especially in the early stages of the illness. Cytokines are proteins made by the cells of the immune system. They are responsible for blocking viral replication and driving inflammatory response. Where You Can Do More Research http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/clues-the-immune-system-is-behind-chronic-fatigue-syndrome http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-y…

Your employer holds a meeting one day and informs all the employees that they will be required to receive a flu shot each year, per company policy, from here on out. Is this fair? What is the benefit to the patients? What is the benefit to you? Is this even legal? Do you have to get the shot? What if your religion doesn’t allow this to happen? These are all questions I will be addressing today. I will also be discussing my opinion and why I believe this shouldn’t be allowed. To start,…

As kids or even now as adults we worry so little of contracting infectious disease, we do not realize that our environment is home to numerous of organisms that are harmful. For example, a single bite of a bug such as a tick can completely change your life. A tick bite can potentially lead to Lyme disease, which can become a severe illness. According to Sanjuna (et al 2018) “about 300,000 new cases per year are recorded world wide” (p.1) turning into the leading cause of tick borne diseases.…

There was no need to be stressed about what God has planned. She was born breathing and weighed two pounds and 3 ounces. My daughter, Jayla Cole was born with minimal health conditions which is miraculous for her prematurity. She did develop Bell’s palsy while in the NICU, a small esophageal cyst which has been removed, and asthma but I am very thankful for her strength and I admire her when I feel weak. She endured a lot more being a preemie than I ever endured being grown. She was a…

Introduction/epidemiology Lyme’s disease is a transmitted disease from ticks, once the tick bites you, a small red bite mark will appear. A normal bite will disappear in a couple of days and does not indicate that you have Lyme’s disease. If that bite mark does not disappear and you get the following symptoms at first, you might have Lyme’s disease. The symptoms of Lyme disease are: a rash and flu-like symptoms. For the rash, three to thirty days after the bite that is considered infective,…

Facial Expressions and the Role They Play in Recognizing Emotions There was a TV show that was broadcast from 2009-2011 called Lie to Me. In this show was a man named Cal Lightman who used his knowledge of body language and facial expressions to read people’s body language. The premise of Lie to Me is based on Paul Ekman and his studies on microexpressions (“Lie to Me”). A microexpression “is a brief, involuntary facial expression shown on the face of humans according to emotions experienced”…

Benefits of sports massage Sport massage is more than just a treatment for sports related injuries, it can produce remarkable benefits for both professional athletes as well as individuals physically, physiologically and physiologically. Physical Benefits • Motion and Flexibility: Sports massage is used to relax overly tense muscles and provide additional flexibility, which is especially important when an individual has tight or damaged muscle tissue. This tight or damaged muscle tissue can…