Biostatistics

Open Road To Orthopedics The story of my search What do you want to be when you are older? I know I have had this question asked to me all the time, have you? My answer, I want to be a orthopedic. I have started to ask myself how do I get there? What do I have to do? What schools do I want to go too? What classes do I have to take? I already knew that I wanted to go to Duke. I knew Duke had a really good orthopedic program. I knew a orthopedic worked on the branch of medicine…

unit handles regulatory activities across the globe . All the information is taken from the company website and internal documents . Introduction : Quintiles : Quintiles was founded in 1982 by Dennis Gillings, Ph.D., CBE, then a professor of biostatistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.…

1. List ONE important event or experience that is memorable to you and briefly tell why this would be important to a college admissions committee. As a member of SMART (Students Modeling a Research Topic) Team, I had the opportunity to go to Boston, to attend the Experimental Biology Conference, to present my literary research/review on the CFTR protein (Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Protein). After working for many hours with my peers researching and forming a poster, we…

The dark sky and persistent raindrops on the windshield made the drive to Duquesne University especially glum that Tuesday morning. I felt a particular sense of being shadowed as I walked from my parked car down to Lieberman Hall for our class discussion of detective fiction. When I reached the building, I realized that I had forgotten my key to enter. Thankfully, a man who looked to be my professor rounded the corner and unlocked the door for me. As I passed through the doorway, I turned around…

Every person in the world has some sort of interests whether it’s reading or playing soccer. Athletics is defined as, physical sports and games of any kind. In my case I am very interested in sports. I’ve been an athlete for as long as I can remember. Athletics is way for me to escape and forget about everything for a while. Playing sports has taught me how to focus only on what I am doing. For instance, I did cheerleading for eleven years of my life and during competitions I had to perform a…

Social media sites can be a great way for healthcare professionals to network with colleagues and share health information. Healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and physical therapists, have plenty of options when it comes to establishing an online presence. Like all of us, they can start a blog or join networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and MySpace. There are also online communities exclusively for healthcare practitioners. Although it has taken them time…

Tobacco use is a major public health problem in the United States. In the United States, tobacco use is the single leading preventable cause of death, accounting for approximately 400,000 deaths each year (WHO, 2008). In order to decrease the rate of deaths caused by Tobacco use is the keeping the youth from ever starting. This paper seeks to explore how educating youth about the risks of tobacco use can decrease the rate of deaths in the next decade. Tobacco use seems to be more common among…

Research Prospectus: How Do We Get Women into Weight Training? The obesity rate of America have grown over the last couple years. Many people have secondary lifestyle which lead to little to no exercise. The health issues have risen and we should pay more close attention to our bodies. Today, when we look at women and weight training, only 20% of American women get the recommended two strength sessions per week. Why is this? Why do women stay out of the weight room? Does weight training benefit…

Topic: Social Determinants of Rural Women’s Health for Heart Disease Introduction Heart disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Australian women (Crouch & Wilson, 2011) and is found to be highest for populations living in remote rural regions of South Australia (SA Atlas, 2015). This paper analyses the patterns and trends in this population group and the different social determinants and lifestyle behaviours that can affect women’s health. Heart disease remains the leading…

Probability concepts like faith, as it exists in the dim intuition, through school education, the surface of that understanding, intuition often conflicts that again with a different point of view, must be thinking more in-depth study to be able to understand. Hot Monty Hall problem, and that is one example. There is not a simple probability, long confused with so many people and academics, the more deeply ponder the problems found. Since 1990, 1991 flared up in hot to 2000, there are more…