Pediatric endocrinology

Why Candy Is good for You to a Limit Over 1.9 billion pounds of candy are sold every halloween; however 1.2 billion pounds are eaten on the night of halloween (Chegg P, 2012). Everyday several hundreds of people claim that they eat candy because it tastes good and it makes them feel good. What they do not realize is it only takes a little while to get addicted to it. One out of four people that say they like candy are actually addicted to it because the sugar is more addictive than coffee…

Specific Aims / Statement of Hypotheses Aim 1: To determine the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on health related quality of life (HRQoL) in adolescents with and without chronic illnesses. Hypothesis: We hypothesize that ACEs, as a precipitating factor, will decrease the quality of life in adolescents regardless of having a chronic illness or not. However, we suspect that there will be a differential effect between the two groups as we expect the presence of ACEs will exacerbate…

The pharmacy profession undergone massive changes in the past few years with a number of countries encouraging more patient-oriented clinical roles and having pharmacists incorporated alongside doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals into a multidisciplinary team. Certain countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are expecting their pharmacists to be vastly available to patients in the community in order to provide counseling about…

• PCOS carries with it body changes that may be more troubling for a female than the actual cause of these changes. What body changes may affect the female? How does the nurse practitioner address these with the patient? What education and counseling does the nurse practitioner offer? Patients with Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) have a multispecialty hormonal disorder presenting with irregular menses or anovulatory and body changes resulting from signs of hyperandrogenis such as acne,…

Results To assay whether the MLPA is able to accurately detect TS cases, we first analyzed a cohort of known mosaic TS patients (“pilot TS group”). Using this group, the ratio able to detect all the mosaicisms and X structural abnormalities was 0.76 at least in one probe (table 1). This ratio permitted to identify also the lowest grade of mosaicism (15%) (mos 45,X[15]/46,XX[85]) among the patients of the pilot TS group. Interestingly, in this population, the MLPA detected Y material presence in…

When I think of the vulnerable population, the thought of children and the elderly comes to mind. In today’s vastly diverse society, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are many others that fall into this population. The CDC defines these other group as follow: “vulnerable populations as defined by race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, geography, gender, age, disability status, risk status related to sex and gender, and among other populations identified…

The time period of WWI and WWII is often identified as a time of battles, bloodshed, and drastic political changes. This time period was also responsible for catapulting many medical technological advancements and developing several specialty fields of medicine. As medical research and knowledge grew, related industries, such as life insurance companies, sought to establish identifiers of an ideal, healthy client. As a result, body averages and standards were set, creating an image of normalcy.…

integration for technology advancement to find better cures and solutions concerning the public’s health. The medical field had been more efficient nowadays due to technological advancement. One of the most effective application can be seen in the Endocrinology section.…

previous (initial) admission and if there is a reasonable expectation that it could have been prevented. Previous research of readmissions is primarily conducted in children?s hospitals(6-8). There is only little information about readmission rates of pediatric wards of general hospitals in the Netherlands and other countries. It is unclear how readmissions rates and characteristics in children?s hospitals relate to those in general hospitals. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to…

theoretically, slap the sense back into you. Another thing I would have to say, something especially true to myself, believe in yourself. Before I even thought graduated high school I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I knew I wanted to be a pediatric endocrinology nurse in the Intensive Care Unit, I still do. Though, I had some people, to remain nameless, told me that I wouldn’t even be able to stay through a full academic year of an Advanced Placement (AP) chemistry class and I pass the…