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Did you know that Bell’s Palsy affects approximately 40,000 people in the United States each year? It affects about 1 person in 65 during a lifetime. Global Statistics indicate a frequency about .02 percent of the world’s population (Bell's Palsy Overview, 2015) Bell’s palsy can be a handful, but with the necessary steps it can be controlled. First, I am going to explain what is Bell’s palsy and it’s causes; second, the signs and symptoms; and third, diagnosis along with treatment. What is…

INTRODUCTION Oral Controlled Release Drug Delivery Systems1, 2: Oral controlled release drug delivery is a drug delivery system that provides*give the continuous oral delivery of drugs at predictable and reproducible kinetics for a predetermined period throughout the course of GI transit and also the system that target the delivery of a drug to a specific region within the GI tract for either local or systemic action. All the pharmaceutical products formulated for systemic delivery via*throw…

Clinical Decision Making Pathophysiology: Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) A cerebral vascular accident (CVA) is defined as “a sudden loss of brain functioning from a disruption of blood supply to a part of the brain causing temporary or permanent loss of movement, thought, memory, speech, or sensation”(Belleza, 2016, p. 1). CVA is categorized as ischemic or hemorrhagic. Hypertension accounts for the majority of ischemic CVAs or strokes. According to the American Heart Association, ischemic…

Multiple sclerosis is a standout amongst the most misjudged illnesses of this century. Since its disclosure, there are still no known reasons, no demonstrated medicines, and no known cure, yet it influences conceivably five hundred thousand individuals in the United States alone. Individuals need to take in more about this infection so it can be conveyed to the country's consideration. Different Sclerosis is a focal's ailment sensory system. It pulverizes the greasy myelin sheath that protects…

The Human Papilloma Virus is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) and this virus is different than the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV). Cervical cancer diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body which originally starts growing at the cervix which is the lower part of the uterus. A-https://steptohealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cervical-cancer.jpg…

The immunological hypothesis was introduced by McGovern and coworkers.35-36 Friedreich hypothesized that the cause of facial paralysis was ~rheumatic" because of exposure to cold often followed by fever, chills and local pain and swelling in and around the neck.37 Brunninghausen speculated that the paralysis arose from the nerve sheath becoming thickened and compressed in stylomastoid foramen. The cold hypothesis, or paralysis e frigore, maintained that exposure to draughts produced the palsy.…

Did you know that cervical cells go through 250 stages as they develop from healthy to cancerous cells, or that there are more than 200,000 cases of Parkinson’s disease per year? Elizabeth Stern discovered how many stages cells go through and James Parkinson is the man who discovered ‘shaking palsy’, which is now known as Parkinson’s disease. Elizabeth Stern and James Parkinson are similar in ways, but also very different form one another. Stern made a very huge impact of cancer research and…

it can even silently lay dormant in the body and all of a sudden awaken and cause complete havoc on one’s brain tissue. A vast majority of viral infections such as, the common flu, measles, mumps, herpes simples, rabies, chicken pox, and west Nile can be a host for viral encephalitis. Herpes simplex and viruses carried by animals such as rabies and West Nile are the most common of the viral encephalitis cases. Each person infected with encephalitis can be subject to a huge range of severity,…

Often, conjunctivitis is associated with respiratory infections and colds; increasing the discomfort and achiness of those affected. Viral conjunctivitis may be cause by a number of infections, including the herpes simplex virus. Children are more prone to bacterial conjunctivitis, but both adults and kids may experience the illness. Biomedical treatments of conjunctivitis may include antibiotic ointments and antiviral medications. Most cases of pink eye clear…

There has been a lot of study done linking Toxoplasmosis so various neuropsychiatric disorders. These studies have shown a high positive correlation between these two conditions. A recent study has linked Schizophrenic and Toxoplasmosis indicating the infection to be causative agent in the increase of dopamine in brain of infected subjects (28). However Toxoplasmosis with respect to neurodegeneration has not been studied as much. Most of the studies that have studied the link between…