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Imagine your child becoming seriously ill. You have no clue what’s causing his symptoms: hacking cough, red rash on his chest, a fever, and swollen lymph nodes. Four months later you find out the devastating news. I’ll never forget that day, Wednesday, July 10, 2013, one of the most frightening days of my life. Austin, my youngest son, at the age of 13, began to develop a hacking cough in March of 2013. Normally he was a physically healthy young man. So, to find out the cause we went to the…

1 With right ASIS inferior in comparison to left ASIS and right PSIS with iliac crest superior to left PSIS, patient is having right anterior rotation innominate. While standing, patient will be leaning more on left side with apparent increase of right leg length and external rotation of hip. On assessment, patient may demonstrate weak gluteal muscles and increase laxity of sacrotuberous ligament. 2 Seated and standing forward flexion, and sacrotuberous ligament tests will be positive in…

STUDY TITLE A Randomized, Phase 2, Two-Arm, Open-Label, Multicenter, Study of Folotyn® (Pralatrexate Injection) with and without Oral Leucovorin to Prevent or Reduce Mucositis in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory (R/R) Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma (PTCL) BACKGROUND 1.a Defining Peripheral T-Cell Lymphomas (PTCL) Peripheral or mature T-cell lymphomas are subset of aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) that comprise approximately 10-15% of all newly diagnosed cases of NHL in the United State.…

The article that was written by Friedman, Friedman and Amoo was pretty intriguing. The authors shows how statistics is very important in our society. It truly breaks down into specifics. In every page, you can see that statistics has provided the data so they can prove their ideas. For example, the woman morality in the hospitals. How would they know if difference from the womans' morality from the first division and second divison. This is all through STATISTICS. If they have the information…

a US research team, I would want to find a vaccine for cancer as soon as possible in order to prevent more deaths. If we were given the option to work with another country who is researching the same thing, it would be helpful to work together. Collaboration with others is better than just working by yourself. As an individual, you can certainly come to a decision faster, but in a group, you’ll come up with a better thought out idea. Cancer is one of the top leading causes of death, and taking a…

Mind and Body: Physical Manifestations of the Mind Our immune system is there to protect us from anything that will do harm to our body, such as antigens. However, for someone who have an autoimmune disorder, their immune system fails to identify what is doing harm and helping the body. Based on the U.S. National Library of Medicine, The exact cause of autoimmune disorders is unknown. One theory is that some microorganisms (such as bacteria or viruses) or drugs may trigger changes that…

Adenotonsillectomy is one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in children. The adenoids, being located in the nasopharynx, form a major part of the vocal tract, which extends from the lips to the glottis. They have the propensity to change the shape of the vocal tract by mere hypertrophy of thelymphoid tissue. Changes in the architecture of the vocal tract occur due to removal of these lymphoid tissues during surgery and these changes are assumed to cause changes in voice in the…

20 cents worth of materials can help save a life. The same materials that can be used to make a paper version of a centrifuge are everyday items you can find around your house -- paper, string, and plastic. Who would've thought that you could use paper in such a life-saving way! A Stanford bioengineer named Manu Prakash decided to analyze the spin of a toy he played with during his childhood in India -- A whirligig. The toy is quite simple in design and dates back thousands of years. It works…

slept better, experienced better moods), Alzheimer’s( weight pain , lessened agitated behaviors, slowed Alzheimer's affects), Arthritis ( pain relief, slept better, helped inflammation), Asthma(opened airways, pain relief), Cancer(prevent nausea,improved impact of radiation on cancer cells), Chronic pain(ease pain), Crohn’s disease(ease pain, limited diarrhea, helped weight pain), Epilepsy(caused 50% less seizures), Glaucoma(lower eye pressure,preserves nerves), Multiple Sclerosis(prevent pain,…

Iaccarino et al. [11] investigated effectiveness and safety of belimumab with a prospective cohort study. All 67 patients were required to fulfill the 1982 ACR revised criteria for SLE and have active/refractory disease manifestations, detectable anti-dsDNA antibodies and low C3 or C4 serum levels; exclusion criteria were severe lupus nephritis (proteinuria > 6 g/24 h or creatinine > 2 mg/dl), severe active neuropsychiatric lupus, potentially life-threatening SLE manifestations and ongoing…