Head and neck cancer

On November 1st 2014, Brittany Maynard laid in bed surrounded by loved ones. She had chosen this day to drink the fatal dose of medication she was prescribed. She no longer wanted to suffer from head and neck pains, surgeries, seizures, and stroke like symptoms she endured from her terminal brain cancer. She had to leave her home state and make a whole new life in Oregon months prior. She states,” I had to find new physicians, establish residency in Portland, search for a new home, obtain a…

“Nursing is a profession focused on assisting individuals, families, and communities to attain, recover, and maintain optimum health and function from birth to old age (Taylor, C., Lillis p. 5)”. Many factors contributed to the development of the nursing profession. The main person that made nursing into what it is today is the famous Florence Nightingale. She “defined nursing as both an art and a science (Taylor, C., Lillis p. 5)”. Nurses have taken up many roles since the beginning, when…

The Setting Sun The sun beaded its rays against Jimmy's back as he laid on the Caribbean Beach. He must have looked worried because his wife looked over and exasperatedly said “As I said before Jimmy nothing is going to happen to the U.S. The USSR is friends with us and we even became allies with them. If stuff does start to go down NATO will help the world.” As those words came out of her mouth the radio quickly turned on. The time was 1400 as the first bombs dropped. These bombs seemed to have…

felt miserable in that box and I didn’t know how to escape. Then, one night, I found a link online to the Locks of Love foundation website. That’s it, I thought. This is how I can come up with a great excuse to cut my hair off- I’ll donate it to cancer patients! I told all of my friends at school the next day that I would be cutting off 11 inches of my hair, but nobody really believed me. I told my mother that summer that I wanted to cut my hair short. At first, she was a bit taken aback…

P1: Ankylosing spondylitis, or AS, is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease of the axial skeleton with a strong link to genetics, which mainly effects the joints of the spine and the sacroiliac joints of the pelvis. The strong genetic links sit with the HLA-B27 gene which has unusual properties in those with AS, and there is evidence to suggest that it may interact with the T cell receptors in association with CD4. Evidence suggests that AS has association with, not only the HLA-B27 gene,…

things that lead to smelling/ or sense problems are “aging,sinus and other upper respiratory infections, smoking,growths in the nasal cavities,head injury,dental problems, exposure to certain chemicals, such as insecticides and solvents numerous medications, including some common antibiotics and antihistamines, radiation for treatment of head and neck cancers ,conditions that affect the nervous system, such as Parkinson’s disease or…

O O Angel K. Nickel 0 I 5 as PULMONARY TB 2 Abstract The world was astounded by the dramatic increase in Tuberculosis cases occurring in 1985. The disease strongly affects the lungs however if serious enough it can happen anywhere in the body. An individuals with the TB disease can spread the infection through air. This means that a simple cough, laugh, sneeze, or singing can spread it to anyone within close range. A normal healthy adult can be infected but yet have no complication or symptoms,…

possible to damage the spine, which is the most dangerous case. For instance, during the headstands yogis transfer the main load on the hands: the head accounts for only 20% of the weight. If too quickly throw your legs up, we run the risk of damaging the cervical spine. According to Russel (1972), yoga practitioners can gain the brain injury caused by neck stretching. This demonstrates that yoga as a system of physical exercises implies a reasonable approach to it. Yoga practices like any…

radiologists diagnose disease in the neck and head, using imaging such as x-rays while the surgeons operate on the mouth or jaws such as operating on wisdom teeth. For instance, I went to my maxillofacial surgeon where he had to remove my wisdom teeth last year. The process took within an hour for them to do my x-rays, put me under anesthesia, and remove my wisdom teeth with ease. Oral pathologists diagnose conditions in the mouth, such as boils and oral diseases, such as cancer. Just like…

Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease and claims the lives of an estimated 2.5 million people in the world. In Australia, it has been researched that the further away a person is from the equator, the more likely is the person is to develop multiple sclerosis. For instance, in the far north of Queensland the disease occurs 12 in every 100000 people, while in New South Wales, it rises to 36 people out of 100000, and even higher in Tasmania with 76 people out of 100000. Although multiple…