Cutaneous conditions

Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) is an autosomal recessive disease that impairs the ability of DNA repair in cells that are damaged by ultra violent light. XP is rare and roughly affects 1:250,000 Americans a year1. Unsurprisingly, early in a patient’s childhood they have extreme sun sensitivity, which gravely increases their incidence of basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, as well as benign and malignant melanomas. Before affected children reach the age of 20 years old, their incidence of…

or brought in contact with any part there of produces ill health or death or both, by its’ constitutional or local effects or both. Again many substances which are harmless and is essential for maintaining health may act as poison under certain conditions. For example: Common salt is a harmless substance, but it was used in India for getting rid of unwanted children b putting it into their mouth, immediately after birth. In short, the doze of intake of any substance accounts for its’ therapeutic…

The Effects of Cryotherapy on Recovery Student’s Name Institution The Effects of Cryotherapy on Recovery Introduction It was proved by modern medicine that using of cold provides healing of the human body. Local cryotherapy as cold application has become one of the directions of physiotherapy. Currently, the information concerning cryotherapy is abundantly available. Therefore, the main goal of this work is precise and direct research on the effects of cryotherapy and…

Development and evaluation of an antimicrobial formulation containing the essential oil of Thymus fontanesii Boiss. & Reut . Mebarki Noudjoub , Nabiev Mohamed2, Chader Henni3, Ziane Henifa4, Fazouane Fethia1 1 Food Technology Research Laboratory, FSI, M’hamed Bougara University, Boumerdès 35000, Algeria 2 Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Process Engineering, FHC, M’hamed Bougara University, Boumerdès 35000, Algeria 3 National Laboratory of Control of Pharmaceuticals Products (NLCPP)…

complications which are associated with the menopause include bone loss and cardiovascular disease. • Treatment of symptoms secondary to hypoestrogenism has no prognostic significance. Rather, preventive care and treatment of aging-associated medical conditions will optimize the quality of life in post-menopausal women. URGENT ACTION • No urgent actions are indicated for the peri- or post-menopause. PITFALLS • Peri-menopausal women in their 40s who are sexually active and have undesired…

Have you ever heard of Sarcoidosis? I hadn’t either until my mom was diagnosed with it eight years ago. My mom takes a lot of medicine for it. Everyday when she wakes up out of bed she is in pain and tired. She takes twelve prescriptions. Some she takes more than once a day so after at the end of the day she takes twenty four pills a day plus two inhalers. She has the disease in several places in her body so she sees five different doctors and four of them are specialties for her…

Complications of open surgical tracheostomy and their management-our experience Introduction Tracheostomy is the surgical procedure to create an artificial opening in the trachea to bypass the obstructed airway above it. History reveals that it is an oldest surgical procedure dating back 3600 B.C.E. in Egypt(1). It has under gone numerous modifications during the past millennia. The first elective tracheostomy was done in AD 100 by Asclepiad’s of Bithynia and the described by Galen in AD131(2)…

EVALUATING THE EFFICACY OF COCONUT OIL IN THE CONTROL OF TUNGIASIS ACKNOWLEGMENT Sincere thanks go to almighty God for enabling me to accomplish my research mission. I would like to acknowledge my worthy supervisors Prof. Florence Oyieke of NAIROBI University and Dr. Evan Mathenge of KEMRI for their enormous academic input and guidance in ensuring that I come up with sound results. I also would like to acknowledge Mr. Karoki, the PHO Kandara for allowing me to conduct my research in his…

What is biodiversity? Introduction Biodiversity is defined as the variety of life on Earth at all its levels and includes genes to ecosystems, as well as the ecological and evolutionary processes that sustain it (Cardinale, 2012). The Earth’s biodiversity has long been a source of wonderment and scientific curiosity, but is increasingly becoming a source of concern. The sheer diversity of life is of inestimable value. Biodiversity has a number of functions on Earth, from providing a foundation…