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Lung transplantation is a complex surgical procedure that a diseased lung is removed and replaced with a donor lung through anastomosis. In context of transplantation, a patient will receive either a single or bilateral lung transplant from a deceased donor. The current concern for lung transplantation is the shortage of lungs donor. Fortunately, some cases could be relieved by receiving donation from living donors. This procedure involved the removal of one lower lobes of lungs each from two…

Cervical Cancer Prevention for Hispanic Americans This paper will discuss the Hispanic culture and their health care beliefs on illnesses, prevention, cultural health practices, how they view traditional healthcare system, and the prevalence of cervical cancer in Hispanic women. It will also discuss how Hispanics financial status, their understanding of the English language, and their lower level of education all hinder the choices they make regarding their healthcare (Roncancio, Ward,…

Is birth control really making an impact? In today’s relationships, women are taking birth control no matter how intimate the relationship is just as a precautionary. It has been proven that birth control has helped decrease teen pregnancy rates. If it is helping decrease teen pregnancy, why is it that parents have such a hard time, allowing birth control to be prescribed to their young adults? Parents may think or want to think that they can trust their children and that they are an angel in…

In today’s world there is several issues that that humanity faces in every day life many are good while many are bad. Today sexuality has become less a taboo and more of an acceptable subject in todays society depending on the person morals and values. Sexuality has many sub-subjects that could be good or bad and can range from a healthy sex life to sexual abuse and will vary on every case. Child abuse and disclosure will be todays topic of discussion. Many people consider abuse as a negative…

disorders that have been linked to stress including depression, anxiety, heart attacks, stroke, hypertension, immune system disturbances that increase susceptibility to infections, a host of viral linked disorders ranging from the common cold and herpes to AIDS and certain cancers, as well as autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. In addition, stress, can have direct effects on the skin (rashes, hives, atopic dermatitis, the gastrointestinal system (GERD, peptic…

Abstract Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of Aloe vera-Green tea mouthwash in reducing pain after the periodontal pocket reduction surgery. Materials and Methods: A randomized, split-mouth, double-blind, cross-over study was conducted on 45 patients between 25 and 50 years of age requiring pocket reduction surgery. Patients underwent bilateral surgeries in two sessions. After the first surgery, the patients were randomized to receive either mouth-wash or placebo for 10 days,…

Reliving today is not exactly a special phenomenon for many people. Generally, individuals live their lives according to a simple go to work and go to bed schedule with little variation. However, for some people, reliving today is only a product of forgetting that today already happened. Anterograde amnesia is a condition that is marked by patients being unable to store information in their short-term memory after a specific incident most commonly involving brain trauma. Having anterograde…

The debate over creation is one that has been around since the beginning of time. Some say God, some say science. But what about other intelligent life? Is it possible that they created our universe? While this notion may sound outlandish and completely irrational, there is actually quite a bit of logical evidence to back it up. All it would take to create a universe is a particle accelerator only slightly more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider. When the LHC was fired up in 2008, there…

Effects of Long-term Space Flight Hanna and Shannon are sisters who rely on each other growing up as young children. One day, as an adult, Hanna and her fiancé took a trip to the moon to celebrate their engagement. There, something mysterious happened, causing the spacecraft carrying Hanna and her fiancé lose contact with earth controlling station. Shannon decided to be an astronaut for NASA to find her sister. After a long-time exploration, Shannon found her sister’s spacecraft in Jupiter’s…

Using Gene Therapy as a treatment for Cystic Fibrosis Introduction: Gene therapy is a treatment which deals with a problem at its source, unlike other forms of treatment which merely eliminate the symptoms. Cystic Fibrosis (being a single gene disorder) should, theoretically, be one of the simpler diseases to cure using this method. In this paper Gene Therapy, in relation to the treatment of Cystic Fibrosis, will be discussed, along with its effectiveness and limitations. The process of Gene…