Newborn screening

Over the past years, one issue has consistently polarized politicians and the American nation at large. The source of said tension, even manifestations and riots, has been the ethics and legality of abortion. As the nation becomes divided in their defense or attack of Planned Parenthood, the women that benefit from preventive services become forgotten—whether they currently have adequate access to preventable services must examined before making any political decision regarding women’s health.…

Genetic engineering has the potential to be used to improve food, plants, humans, and drugs. Although genetic engineering could create major problems dealing with ethics and defects due to insufficient knowledge, it also opens doorways to extending and bettering mankind’s existence. Genetic engineering is off to a rough start, with many people thinking of it as unethical and unimaginable, but more research is done on it every day so that in the future we can use it for our benefit. Genetic…

Sickle Cell Trait Twila S. Russell Virginia College NUR 2320 Professor Deandrala Huffman October 24, 2016 Sickle Cell Trait According to the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disorders, “Sickle Cell Trait (SCT) affects 1 in 12 Blacks or African Americans in the United States and about 1 out of every 100 Latinos has sickle cell trait.” (CDC.gov). SCT occurs when a person inherits a gene for sickle beta globin from one parent and a gene for normal beta-globin from the other…

Sickle Cell Disorder [ICD-10 D57] Sickle Cell Disorder (SCD) may be one cause to this child’s previously listed symptoms. SCD is an inherited disease in which an abnormal hemoglobin S [HbS] leads to chronic hemolytic anemia, pain, and organ failure (Grossman & Porth, 2014). SCD is transmitted by a recessive gene and can manifest as a sickle cell trait or sickle cell disease. The sickle cell trait may manifest as a heterozygote with one HbS gene [HbS], and SCD may manifest as a homozygote with…

percent to 2 percent during 30 months. Processed all medical waivers for entrance into the Army, which required to requested and route military and or civilian medical records using authorized medical releases. Scheduled appointments for medical screenings outside the Military Entrance and Processing Station (MEPS) when required through Kimbrough Army Medical Center or Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Contacted Army National Guard Bureaus Personnel…

Sexual Wellness within the Alaskan Foster Care System The number of Alaskan foster youth is at a record high; just over 2,700 children are in foster care (Dobbyn, 2015). Foster youth are at a disproportional risk to contract sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and experience unwanted pregnancy (Hudson, 2012). Foster youth, in general, state the major reason why these issues exist is a lack of education and relationships with healthcare providers (Hudson, 2012). Alaska has high rates of STIs…

DOWN SYNDROME: A LIFE-LONG DISORDER Imagine facing two choices: parents having to abort their unborn baby, or they go through the pregnancy knowing their child is going to have Down syndrome, knowing that raising him or her will not be easy. Many parents face this choice everyday. According to Peggy Parks, author of Down Syndrome, 80 to 90 percent of unborn babies diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted (19). Everyday, all around the world babies are diagnosed with Down syndrome and parents…

This presentation is about Project Muso Ladamunen. It was started in Mali to help give aid to the poorest members of the community. The community members did not have easy access to health care that was affordable and many of them were dying of treatable diseases. The first thing we are going to talk about is the problems that Mali had before Project Muso. In Mali 36.1% of the population lives below the poverty line. Many of these people live on less than $2 a day. Due to the fact that the many…

back when they are being held. Babies may become extremely flustered, and may rock or bang their heads on things. If a child is experiencing this, there may be a possibility of Autism, in which one concerned should discuss with their doctor for a screening. Based on a large-scale study administered in the United States and England alleged statistics is that autism appears in about four to five out of every 10,000 births. As in many other developmental disabilities, autism is three times more…

Cardiac and respiratory conditions can be very hard on the child and the families of the child. There are many different cardiac and respiratory conditions that can affect a child, as well as their families. The great thing is that many of these conditions we are able to treat. The cardiac condition that I decided to research is the Tetralogy of Fallot and the respiratory condition is Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Tertralogy of Fallot is a birth defect and affects normal blood flow. During…