Hematology

Budget Justification Personnel Vijaya M. Lella (also known as L. Vijaya Mohan Rao), Ph.D. Principal Investigator, 3.6 calendar months effort and salary. The P.I. will devote 30% of his effort on the proposed grant. He will assume overall responsibility for the proposed project, which includes supervision of all personnel involved in the project, planning, the design of experimental approaches, the close review of the data, data analysis & interpretation, preparation of manuscripts, and decisions…

Some people know what they want to do when they grow up from a young age; others discover it during a later part of their lives. As a sophomore in high school, I worried that I would not find my calling. My worries slowly vanished when I started volunteering at hospitals a year later. I looked forward to coming to each shift to spend quality time with patients and help the staff, which influenced me to consider a career in medicine. I wanted to be well-informed and exposed to the field as…

Morrison, T. (2012). Qualitative analysis of central and midline care in the medical/surgical setting. Clinical Nurse Specialist, 26(6), 323-328. In 2012 a clinical nurse specialist from Naples Florida did a qualitative study that focused on nurses from a 400-600-bed community hospital with regards to CLABSI’s. The NCH Healthcare System Foundation funded to the cost of in-service production and telephone interviews (Morrison, T., 2012). The purpose of the study was to examine the experience and…

Case History A 23-year old man, came to the emergency department because of shortness of breath, fatigue, a cough, muscle pain, nausea, and a fever. His shortness of breath was due to minimal activity and returned to normal after several minutes of rest. His fatigue has limited him to only doing daily required activities. He did not complain of having any chest pain while breathing. His cough was nonproductive and had no aggravating or relieving factors to it. He also complained of feeling sick…

Laboratory Technicians or MLT’s “perform routine laboratory tests done in hematology, chemistry, immunohematology, microbiology, immunology and coagulation while maintaining instrument maintenance and quality control” (MLT Job Description). There is also no patient interaction in this setting. At first, these two occupations seem…

a remarkable safety profile for a different variation of recombinant human necrosis factor (binding protein-1). Intravenous, intramuscular, or subcutaneous injections were given to healthy volunteers. The safety profile was based on vital signs, hematology and blood chemistry, and antibodies to study drug and local tolerability (Trnchard-Lugan, Ho-Nguyen, Bilham, et. al.,…

Passionately Curious Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Have you ever felt that adrenaline rush through your body increasing the mind’s interest of a topic you were freshly introduced to? I feel that passion over the topic of the human body and the medical world and I become determined to learn more. I am interested in the foreign, universal language of medical terminology and of the hands-on skills of assisting a doctor. I strongly feel the desire to gain the knowledge and skills to become…

i. The two companies that were selected are Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson. First of all, Pfizer, Inc. is a research-based, global biopharmaceutical company which it focuses in improving the health standards locally or globally by manufacturing vaccines and injectable biologic medicines. Basically Pfizer operates under a few business segments such as Global Pharmaceutical, Global Vaccines, Oncology and Consumer Healthcare and Global Established Pharmaceutical. Unlike Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson is…

This Week in Pharma: The Future of Moleculin’s Annamycin Post Celator Success and Dissecting Minerva’s Positive Phase 2b Results Summary: This column discusses Moleculin’s Annamycin in the wake of Celator’s recent success with a similar drug and Minerva’s phase 2b data for schizophrenia drug MIN-101. Based on your votes for the more interesting topic, Slingshot Insights will sponsor the expert’s cost and you can join! Option 1: Discussing Moleculin’s Annamycin after the company’s recent IPO,…

clinician to explore further. Fourteen systems reviewed are constitutional, eyes, ENT (ears, nose, mouth/throat), cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, integumentary, neurological, psychiatric, endocrine, hematology/lymphatic, and…