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Overtime, asthma may change and therefore it is important for patients that have asthma to consult with their primary care physician to identify any triggers that may cause asthma attacks and symptoms and adjust their treatment accordingly (Mayo Clinic, 2014).…

Red Meat: A Killer Unmasked For centuries people have considered red meats, such as beef and pork, as essential to a healthy diet. (Teicholz). Red meat has always been a favorite at the meal table, and America is the world’s leading consumer for meats per capita – red and poultry; however, an interesting shift has occurred since 1970 (Dokoupil; Molla). The average American’s red meat consumption has actually decreased from over 100 pounds per person every year to an average of 71.2 pounds per…

Scotty Smiley, a retired United States Army Major, is inspirational, adaptable, faith-oriented, and determined. Scotty’s autobiography, Hope Unseen, shares his story of becoming the first blind active-duty officer in the military. In 2005, Scotty was involved in a bombing accident that resulted in a piece of shrapnel dissecting his left retina, penetrating his frontal bone, and shredding his right optical nerves and fibers (Smiley & Crandall, 2010, p. 67). As a result of this incident, Scotty…

Human beings are designed to cooperate and collaborate with systems, their bodies are organisms that work in cooperation. In fact, every aspect of biology is interdependent of each other. Interdisciplinary curriculums with an integrated learning approach (I-I), constitutes an exterior representation of our interior-natural functionality and consequently, a natural way of learning. An overall implementation of an (I-I) methodology in the American educational system will ensure students into…

be asymptomatic, some typical symptoms include angina, shortness of breath, irregular heartbeat, difficulty swallowing, indigestion, nausea, vomiting, light-headedness, pain or discomfort in in the arms, shoulders, back, neck, jaw, or stomach.(Cleveland Clinic, 2014) If a patient conveys symptoms, a stress echocardiography can be used to diagnose CAD, but the first tests given will usually be an electrocardiogram and a blood test. Other tests include Coronary Angiography and Cardiac…

Talapo, one of the popular Karen dish, is made of rice and bamboo shoots, lemon grass and fish paste (Ewen, 2012).The Karen people refuse invitations to eat with one another initially as a manner of respect and then they modestly accept (The Cleveland Clinic Office of Diversity, 2012). For Karen people, food is eaten with the fingers of the right hand. Those who live in more urban areas may eat with a fork and a spoon and sometimes chopsticks are used while eating noodles (Ewen,…

Addiction is very complex. It can be described as a series of damaging activities one does to themselves, that negatively impacts their individual life and the lives of those around them (NIDA 2012). Addiction can be further classified as the repeated action or ingestion of something that alerts one’s mood. Video game addiction is described as an impulse control disorder, similar to pathological gambling (UPH 2016). The concept of Internet addiction as a disorder was initially proposed by Ivan…

the food. The nutrients are used for energy, growth and cell repair. This happens in the Upper GI (Gastrointestinal) tract; the extraction of waste happens Lower GI (Gastrointestinal) Tract. (Niddk.nih.gov, 2015; Better Health Channel A, 2015; Cleveland Clinic, 2013; Castro, 2013). The Digestive system is made up of many organs that allow it to carry out it is function. The mouth breaks down (chewing and salvia) the food so it is able to travel through LGI, also because it helps the digestion…

worse than I thought it was. I was scheduled for an MRI to see if there was a tumor, spinal fluid, or anything to figure out why my optic nerve was swollen. Throughout the year, I had multiple tubes of blood drawn, including 17 at one time at the Cleveland Clinic, several road trips to get different opinions, two serious hospital stays, one painful spinal tap, way too many seizure-like activities—causing memory loss—, and nine MRI’s. Nothing was coming up though. It wasn’t until my second…

demonstrates a phenomenon that has been studied extensively in basic science. The ideas discovered in basic science are now being used to determine alternate ways to treat glioblastoma, and these treatments will hopefully be able to be used in the clinic eventually. References 1. Killock D (2015) Molecular classification of glioma. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology 12: 502. 2. Eckel-Passow, JE et al. (2015) Glioma groups based on 1p/19q, IDH, and TERT promoter mutations in tumors. N. Engl. J.…