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White House. “White House Precision Medicine Initiative.” National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives and Record Administration, 26 May 2016. Web. 08 Feb. 2017. This article brings about former President Barack Obama effortful changes within the health care system through the creation of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) in 2015. PMI main goal is to tailor treatment and prevention in illnesses and diseases on an individualized basis rather than a “one-size-fits-all”…

According to the Center for Disease Control’s National Health and Nutrition Education Survey, in 1959, 13% of adult Americans were overweight or obese. In 2010 that figure had climbed to 69.9% (CDC/NHANES, 2011). Obesity, a risk factor for diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and stroke has reached epidemic proportion in the United States. It continues to increase across the population regardless of age, education, or socioeconomic level. In 1972 Michael Jacobson, the director of the American…

Everyday people with disabilities are treated unfairly due to their physical appearance. Over the years, having a disability has had a negative stigma within our culture due to the negative labels created by society. Many believe in the ideology that people with disabilities are not able capable of accomplishing the same task as non-disabled people. However, these obstacles have not stopped individuals to advocate for those who are not able to do so. Today they are several laws passed aimed to…

Albinism in humans is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes due to absence or defect of tyrosinase, a copper-containing enzyme involved in the production of melanin. It is the opposite of melanism. Unlike humans, other animals have multiple pigments and for these, albinism is considered to be a hereditary condition characterised by the absence of melanin in particular, in the eyes, skin, hair, scales, feathers or cuticle.…

different from the adoption process, where a parent or guardian chooses to put them up for adoption. Growing up in the system can have long term effects on children and young adults, some of those effects are PTSD, depression, anxiety, and many other disorders. The question I ask is; what do those long term effects look like and what is being done to improve the system? Every year, children ages 1 month to 18 years, from all types of different backgrounds are tossed into the bin of misfit…

women will attempt suicide more often while men die from suicide. How can this be possible? Simple, men tend to choose more lethal forms of suicide, while women choose less lethal means. According to the World Health Organization, “Gender specific risk factors for common mental disorders that disproportionately affect women include gender based violence, socioeconomic disadvantage, low income and income inequality, low or subordinate social status and rank and unremitting responsibility for the…

Organization of this school-wide event was vast and detailed, involving repeated meetings with administration and staff in regards to scheduling and roll-out details; along with negotiating a “pie the principal or assistant principal in the face” incentive…

Pollution is a wide perspective enveloping numerous institutions and schools of considerations. In direct terms, pollution is the presentation of undesirable substances into natural environment prompting environmental instability, disorder, discomfort and mischief to the biological system influencing the diverse living things in their habitat (Berner & Berner, 2012). Undesirable substance presentation into the environment has been prodded by industrialization and enhanced technology…

Introduction Vaccines were a major technological advance in medicine. Vaccines provided a quick, simple, and accessible way for people to develop immunity to a certain disease before experiencing the symptoms. Although vaccines diminished the number of cases of these diseases dramatically, certain groups of people started to oppose immunization, sparking a “vaccine war.” These groups of people reject vaccination due to the side effects linked to vaccines, the belief that an individual has a…

such as the Prader-Willi Syndrome, can cause obesity. In children, the Prader-Willi Syndrome is genetically the most common cause of obesity. It is a disorder in which the 15th chromosome has an abnormality. The child will experience chronic hunger and the overeating can lead to an unhealthy body mass index (BMI). Furthermore, hormonal disorders such as polycystic ovaries and adrenal glands can contribute to obesity. Steroids, anti-depressants, and oral contraceptives may also contribute to…