Hepatitis C

Hundreds of children talking all at once, that’s what morning at Illini Elementary School sounded like. And there I sat having no one to talk to. Until one day a new girl came through the school doors. She was as tall as a giant and had short black box braids. This girl sat down by all the other children in my grade. So many thoughts were going through my head at once I didn’t know what to do. I was so nervous to talk to her that I almost threw up! I didn’t want her to reject me like the other…

• For this write-up, I will be focusing on strep throat in adolescents and adults, and will expand on the background of this sickness, prevention, and treatment. Strep throat is a bacterial infection caused by streptococcal bacteria, and it generally occurs in the pharynx. Since it is a bacterial infection, it can spread from person to person extremely easy. This may be why adolescents are very susceptible to this illness, because they tend to share drinks, food, and other objects with…

person could result in the loss of what the Chinese call “face” of the family or village. Face is the psychosocial homeostasis of the person. By interrupting the homeostasis of the psychosocial norm, the face is lost. Because these illnesses are so highly stigmatized, the problem becomes that these people are much less likely to seek out help and treatment for fear of the shaming that may ensue. The first nursing diagnosis that could relate to the Chinese culture is deficient knowledge.…

Assessing the current and historical health history of the pregnant woman directs the appropriate antenatal care, allowing planning of appropriate intrapartum management, whilst preparing postpartum and postnatal care options. Effective antenatal advice provided by midwives’ enables the patient to make informed choices regarding care during pregnancy (3Centres Collaboration, 2012e; Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council [AHMAC], 2012; AHMAC, 2014). Reviewing and monitoring progress…

Globally individuals develop and obtain disease. Among these diseases is the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and breast cancer; two commonly spread/carried diseases, and potentially life threatening diseases. Chronic hepatitis B infection alone “is a global public health issue with >350 million hepatitis B virus carriers worldwide” (Ling, W H Y et, al,1931). Breast cancer has also been on the rise infecting not only women but men as well. So, it is not uncommon for individuals to have both…

with C. Let us compare and contrast two different object-oriented languages, C# and C++ (Craig, 2007). C# is…

“Since 1990, new cases of hepatitis B in children and adolescents have dropped more than 95%.” Both the hepatitis A and B vaccine provide long-term protection from the diseases…

transplantation will likely prolong his life and offer hope for the future. Considering the medical statistics in regards to outcome and long-term recovery, the patient with alcoholism ultimately has a better survival rate than the patient with hepatitis B virus, which is a promotion of allocating rare medical resources according to the utility of the organ. Thus, the resources are used according to the maximum effectiveness of the consequences, a utilitarian ethical avenue to dispersing the…

Technology 03/03/2016  Clostridium Difficile Clostridium difficile also known as C. diff is a disease caused by a germ which in the United States infected half a million people in 2011, and twenty nine thousand people that died within thirty days. Patients with this disease have symptoms such as watery diarrhea, fever, loss of appetite, nausea, and abdominal pain. Usually, people who are at increased risk for C. diff had gastrointestinal surgery, or is living at an advanced age. Clostridium…

Objectives Objective 1: Develop a cell line expressing the duck viperin. In order to develop an avian model that is able to express the duck viperin with an advantage of stable and homogeneous expression, duck viperin with and without the C-terminal V5 tag was previously cloned into the mammalian expression vector pcDNA3.1/Hygro+. Then, with the use of lipofectamine 2000, I stably transfected an empty vector and duck viperin tagged or untagged into DF-1 cells. In order to get a monoclonal…