Orphan drug

of societies attitude many children will never experience the luxury of education, or what it’s like to be fully healthy and their numbers will continue to increase unless something is put into action. In Botswana, the orphan rate in 2011 was 100,000, whereas in Senegal the orphan rate is unknown. This complication adds more to the reason of Senegal being an anomaly, whereas Botswana…

Fredric Reamer (2007) defines an open adoption as “an adoption where at least one biological parent and their child’s adoptive parents have contact with each other, share some identifying information with each other, and the child, when old enough, knows that contact exists.” Through this definition, there can be many different types of open adoption. Some open adoptions include the birth parent as a prominent role in the child’s life. Other open adoptions limit the contact between birth parent…

adoption. Her feelings are that by leaving the records sealed society is denying adoptive children the ability to find out things about themselves that may cause irreparable harm. Such things as hereditary medical conditions and social history like drug addiction or alcoholism that if known could be treated and possibly cured and by not knowing this, will go untreated for many generations. She also argues that this is information…

In this generation there are children that either survive on the streets or live in orphanages. Adoption provides help to the children in need of a home. In a many cases, families cannot have children for personal reasons. In the 1907’s adoption in United States was secretive. Couples typically adopt babies of their own race. To make sure their adoption was undetected. Adoptions have been confidential because, to avoid a physically or verbally abusive situation or unsupportive friends or family…

which tracked at least 15,000 kids from 1990 to 2002 (Moore 3). This study shows that 74% of incarcerated inmates have been in foster care and 80% of those kids are on death row. People who did not have good foster homes are more likely to turn to drugs and violence and end up in jail. Foster homes are not always as loving as we think they…

time we take pills, we are actually gambling with our lives. Drugs that are considered safe are in reality, harmful. It is our worst nightmare because with a few pills, drugs can ruin our lives and futures. Dr. Peter Gotzsche, the Director of the Nordic Cochrane Center in Copenhagen and an author, was interviewed about drugs. He said, “Our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Our drugs kill around 200,000 people in America every year, and half…

discusses Moleculin’s Annamycin in the wake of Celator’s recent success with a similar drug and Minerva’s phase 2b data for schizophrenia drug MIN-101. Based on your votes for the more interesting topic, Slingshot Insights will sponsor the expert’s cost and you can join! Option 1: Discussing Moleculin’s Annamycin after the company’s recent IPO, promising Phase 1, and Celator’s successful phase 3 trials for similar drug VYXEOS. What differentiates Annamycin, what does Celator’s success mean for…

vulnerable to addiction. People who have had traumatic experiences in their childhoods are more vulnerable to experiencing addiction. Elijah’s past was somber, lonely and unfortunate because he was raised in a residential school and grew up as an orphan. Growing up in such…

living with HIV are taking ART to prevent mother to child transmission (Unicef). In 2014 they have also seen a 60% reduction in Aids related death among children (Unicef). Unicef tires to promote HIV testing to mothers, and start them on anti-viral drugs to reduce the chance of transmission. The harder demographic to reach and treat is the young adults. According to Unicef, there are 26 new infections among adolescent every hour (Unicef) of those adolescent infections, 7 in 10 are among…

Through Adoption orphans have found their dream family and couples have filled voids in their family through adoption. Overall, in typical cases, adoption has served as an avenue to happiness for both adults and children. However, the adoption system in its entirety is broken, the dream of adoption is not fulfilled for some couples, due to the meticulous adoption process. For this reason, some children are never adopted out, they spend their lives in various foster homes, or remain in an…