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    Key words used are: falls, systemic review, and aged. Inclusion criteria for randomized control trials (RCTs) are: 60 years or over participants or with stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and other medical condition, living in community, hospitals, or care homes, and comparison of multiple intervention from single, multifactorial, or no intervention. The…

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    Essay On Placebo

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    A placebo is a harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect. Researchers use placebos during studies to help them understand what effect a new drug or some other treatment might have on a particular condition. Researchers then compare the effects of the drug and the placebo on the people in the study. That way, they can determine the effectiveness of the new drug and check for side effects. The use of placebo…

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    Pfizer Executive Summary

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    Executive Summary The premise of this analytical assessment was to evaluate how Pfizer uses analytics as it relates to decision making. The assessment focuses on the organization as a whole, with interviews from two colleagues in two different business units: Development Operations (GIP) and the Business Analytics & Insight (GEP). Overall, it is evident that Pfizer, as a consequence of being a heavily regulated pharmaceutical industry, must use scientific data to ensure that the products we make…

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    Synopsis The use of smoked marijuana has increased for the treatment of HIV associated anoxeria and weight loss in absence of supporting clinical evidence. This has raised the concern about the safety of marijuana smoking by subjects with an acquired immune deficiency. The safety concern is not only pertaining to effect of THCthe immune system but also for the endocrine system, nervous system and respiratory system on long term and heavy use of marijuana. The use of marijuana was increased due…

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    Claim Most of the Animal Testing does not provide solution to the human treatment in biomedical research, and are not reliable to predict the human health. Along with this human benefit cannot justify the cruelty in animal testing during research. However, looking at the history of biomedical research, animal have been repeatedly use whether those testing were successful or not. It is true that human beings and animals are somewhat similar in biological and physical structure but does that mean…

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    Rational Drug Discovery

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    discovery. With years of guesstimating and predicting how to create the perfect prescription, drugs have been identified in numerous ways. Drugs have been discovered and named through multiple encounters of trial-and-error or with simple luck. Thorough comparisons, predictions, multiple encounters of trial-and-error all compile to complete the complicated phases of rational drug discovery. Rational drug discovery is rather known as drug design, which is the process of finding new medications…

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    Which Drug Would You Choose? I did not know what Alzheimer’s disease was until I spent extended time with my great aunt Vickie. I was visiting her during a family vacation and over a few hours she kept repeating herself to me, asking the same question over and over. I asked my mother why Aunt Vickie was unable to remember my name and who I was. My mother explained to me that, at 89, the elderly start to lose their memory. She explained it as, “when people get older they start to lose their…

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    The Placebo Effect

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    Once merely seen as a hoax of random differences in alternating clinical trials, the Placebo Effect is now seen as scientifically measurable,1 as it is the study of the environmental context of the patient that affects them through psychological mechanisms.2 Most commonly the research surrounding this complex anomaly have been around neurobiological mechanisms of pain and analgesia.2 “Overall, the placebo effect appears to be a very good model to understand how a complex mental activity, such as…

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    Pinterest Case Study

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    Pinterest The Pew Research Center reveals that the Pinterest Audience is high-income, female-heavy audience of tablet users (Greenwood, 2015 . It is best used for promoting traffic to a brand, sales and infographics through visual conent that links back to the brand website. Currently there are 40 million users of Pinterest (Munoz-Tayras, 2015). Pinterest appeal to millennial’s who see it as an opportunity to share ideas and interact with other. Social and Behavioral Science of Pinterest…

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    RT AND TLR AGONISTS TLR agonists can be used in combination with RT to enhance the antitumor immune response. This combination therapy was more efficient than either treatment alone and provided protection against subsequent tumor rechallenges. Brody et al treated 15 patients with metastatic low-grade B cell lymphomas with low doses of radiation (2 x 2 Gy in 2 consecutive days). They combined the RT with intratumoral injections of CpG, into the same irradiated site, before the first dose of…

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