First aid

Vanquishing AIDS/HIV: Olga Golichenko’s Side AIDS/HIV is a treacherous disease that has killed millions of people world-wide for decades due to lack of proper treatment funding and no available cure for the disease itself. A proposed financial tax, known as the “Robin Hood Tax”, could help in funding treatment and a cure for the disease (DeMoro, pg.11). This financial tax can not only help in the “[eradication] [of] HIV/AIDS and other global epidemics” but also improve global healthcare for…

“The Habit Loop” by Charles Duhigg Explains the reasoning behind habits and why and how they work. ….. Talks about a man named Henry Molaison, who is suffering from viral encephalitis, which was eating away Henry’s brain structure, doctors were unsure if Henry would recover from the disease. Henry was given large doses if antiviral drugs, which fought the disease gradually and would soon make the virus disappear. Scans found that the disease had made some parts of his brain unresponsive. Henry’s…

authors discussed the cultural and linguistic barriers, ethical issues, and the determining capacity through the barrier of the culture its implications of the surrogate decision maker and the nursing implications for delivering care. Ms. C., was first diagnosed with HIV 5 years…

Marilyn Monroe once sang, “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” This lyric about girls and their diamonds makes sense for obvious reasons. Diamonds are shiny, make women feel like princesses, and are a symbol of “love”. However, diamonds have an intimidating competitor, chocolate. No matter how big the “rock” is, some women would prefer delicious, melt in your mouth, chocolate. Their wise decision could potentially have some great upsides to it. For instance, dark chocolate has numerous health…

Children Should be Taught About Sex at Young Age Children need guidance, now more than ever. First and foremost, they should be educated about sex at much younger age than they were in the past, because it is a different world we live in, and children are exposed to sex at much younger age. This is mostly due to technology, and the media. Also, the environment new generations are raised in is way more sexually immoral than previous generations. More importantly, the earlier they learn the…

HIV is a human immunodeficiency virus that weakens the Immune system by making it impossible to fight of the virus. There is no known cure for HIV/AIDs but there are medications available so, with proper treatment it can be controlled. HIV affect all races but Africans/ Americans are the racial group that is most affected by HIV/AIDs. Most the new diagnosis occurred within the African/American community and gay/bisexual African men are even more affected by it. According to the CDC, African…

The three stages of progression from initial HIV infection to full-blown AIDS are: the primary infection stage, the chronic asymptomatic stage, and the chronic symptomatic stage (Insel, Roth, Irwin, & Burke, 2012). During the primary infection stage, patients generally develop flu-like symptoms, and they usually do not fathom…

It is inarguably true that the mention of word racism sets some hearts thumping in fury, and shivers running down the spines of others. These extreme emotional responses make the thorough discussion of racism an arduous task but its adverse effect on health compels us to open this chapter for dialogue. Racism, according to Link and Phelan is a fundamental cause that puts people at ‘risk of risks’ of adverse health events(1). Geronimus buttresses this assertion by hypothesizing the biological…

The KIR ligand incompatibility model, also known as the “ligand-ligand” model was first suggested by the Perugia group, and predicts NK alloreactivity in the GVHD direction when the recipient lacks expression of an iKIR ligand (figure 4a) 31-34. This seminal study demonstrated the first clinical evidence of the efficacy of adoptive immunotherapy via NK alloreactivity 31,32. Utilizing HLA-mismatched haploidentical donors, Ruggeri and colleagues evaluated ninety two patients with high risk…

undetected and may contribute significantly to the reservoir of TB disease if reactivation occurs in later years as a study showed “about 10% of immunocompetent adults with LTBI will eventually progress to active disease, and half of them will do so in the first 2 years following infection.” Proposed measures Singapore should aim to manage the pool of TB disease contributed by LTBI reactivation through (i) Screening for LTBI in migrants from high-risk groups and, (ii) Rescreening of…