Has your child ever experienced diarrhea, rapid breathing, vomiting or sleepiness? Theses symptoms show that your child may have or already has Reye’s Syndrome. Go to the hospital as soon as possible because the disease could get worse by the hour. If treated early your child can be as good as new in a few weeks. Better be safe than sorry. Reye’s Syndrome was named after Australian pathologist R. Douglass Reye who first discovered the disease in 1963. After his discovery the number of…
After reading Anti-Aging is an Oxymoron by Hayflick and Anti-Aging Science: The emergence, maintenance, and enhancement of discipline by Fishman et al, I feel that anti-aging science is a fad rather than a real science. Hayflick starts out by stating an inevitable fact that helped me come to this conclusion: that no intervention can no can slow, stop or reverse the aging process (Hayflick, 2004). Fishman compliments this fact when stating anti-aging medicine is more of a social movement that…
treatment which involved material from smallpox sores to be given to non infected people to help the body naturally fight it. Now a days, if you choose to receive the vaccine you would not be infected with the actual virus but only something much weaker that will help you fight it off. Smallpox vaccinations can protect you from…
Shingles is an acute inflammatory condition of the dorsal root ganglia, which causes the nerve cells on a spinal nerve to become inflamed (Nazarko, 2013). People develop chickenpox when they first exposure to herpes virus in childhood. When they recover from chickenpox, the virus remains in the spinal nerves in a dormant form. People with healthy immune systems keep the virus dormant with no symptoms of shingles. When people are in immune depressive status or when people are aging, they have…
Brittani Jones Daubert v. Frye Standard American InterContinental University In the court of law, scientific evidence and expert witnesses are allowed to be admissible into a court of law as evidence and testimony. The Frye Standard and the Daubert Rule have brought new standards in which scientific evidence and expert witness testimony is allowed in court as evidence. When it comes to an expert witness, he or she has to be certified by the trial judge, as well as have the knowledge,…
The Use of Modern-Day Anesthetics Stems from the Use of Anesthetics During the Civil War Modern-day anesthetics can trace its roots from the use of Sulfuric Ether and Chloroform during the Civil War. While these anesthetics were discovered prior to the civil war, the use of these drugs helped create developments in these drugs and popularity that these drugs drew helped these anesthetics become what they are today. The first two anesthetics ever used were called sulfuric ether and chloroform.…
Glyphosate is a chemical which is widely used as a systemic herbicide in many of the most popular commercially available weed killers. Notably, perhaps the most popular and often used of these products is Monsanto’s Round Up which has become a staple of farming in the United States as well as many other countries over the past several decades. However, the overuse of glyphosate based herbicides has led to its decreased effectiveness and has forced many farmers to look elsewhere for weed…
it is an abnormal reaction of the body to a allergens . A medical condition that causes someone to become sick after eating, touching, or breathing something that is harmless to most people. Also, it is occurs when a person's immune system reacts to substances in the environment that are harmful for most people. Allergy symptoms, fever. may cause Sneezing and Itching of the eyes, nose or ceiling of the mouth ,liquid , stuffy nose ,Watery, red or bulging eyes (conjunctivitis). Rash. For example,…
The MMR protects against measles, mumps, and rubella. Most infants and children receive their first MMR vaccine between the ages of 12-15 months. The second vaccine is required for school aged children between the ages of four and six years old. Since mumps is a virus, it does not respond to antibiotics or other medications. There are things you can do to make yourself comfortable while…
Children are being diagnosed as having psychological problems at an early age. More antipsychotic drugs are being prescribed each day to children even for behavioral problems. According to an article from Dr. Mercola “There is big money to be made in prescribing medications to kids – especially when those medications are intended to be taken for life, as many psychotropic drugs are.” (Dr. Marcelo) Some doctor’s might want a quick fix, and are willing to give their patience antipsychotic drugs…