Tuberculosis treatment

help to increase preventative measures and treatment efforts. Discrimination and stigmas often go hand in hand in how they create barriers to care and health equity. These barriers often go unseen or become neglected. It is important for healthcare professionals to look past the biomedical model…

The development of new drug discovery technologies like high throughput screening, combinatorial chemistry, etc. has led to the discovery of a large number drugs that are poorly water soluble.(1,2) Approximately 40% of the NCEs are poorly water soluble and has poor bioavailability.(3) The successful clinical use of these molecules requires the application of solubility enhancement based formulation approaches. Among the various solubility enhancement technique like use of cosolvents,…

Fear, Ignorance & Myths=Epidemic Proportions A deadly disease spread faster than the science to treat and explain it, but years would go by before the American people would demand to know why, thereby creating a perfect storm. Fear and ignorance such as the idea that HIV was a gay person’s disease and contracting it was God’s punishment would fuel the power vacuum that allowed HIV rates to rise to epidemic proportions. Ultimately, because the American public believed this myth, these factors…

her medicine but now this time she said she believed in sorcery. He was confused to why she took the medicine then if that’s what she believed in. But after she asked this question, he then changed his mindset. Now all TB patients received full treatment no matter what their beliefs are. They have not lost a patient to TB since this…

globalization on health. The movement of people, goods and services has facilitated the spread of infectious diseases around the globe. Several diseases have become the main point of concern in the world. The first one is HIV/aids. The second diseases are tuberculosis. Cholera and malaria are however a threat but they are more pronounced in the less developed countries. I want to say that major steps should be taken to reduce the…

cough, and confusion (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2016) . Due to the generalized symptoms, treatment is often delayed until more serious complications such as difficulty breathing, hemorrhage, renal failure or neurological problems present (CDC, 2016). With early detection, Anaplasmosis is more likely to have positive outcomes. According to the CDC, without early detection and proper treatment, Anaplasmosis can be fatal. Individuals can be diagnosed with Anaplasmosis anytime of the…

There are many different diseases in the world. Some of which most people do not even have knowledge about. In the world, there are thousands of diseases. Many can be treated and many cannot be treated. Most people come in contact with diseases throughout their lifetime. One common disease is Pertussis. Pertussis can also be known as tussis convulsive, or more commonly as whooping cough. The prefix per- means thoroughly/extreme, and the suffix –tussis means cough (merriamwebster) This disease…

Intro Many years ago, when the discovery of Ringworms came to be, an abundant number of doctors believed it was due to worms called hence. According to David Gruby around 1843, he described a fungus that causes a certain ringworm. Ringworms were extremely common among poor people during the 1800s they thought it was caused by bad hygiene. Now it has been proven that it is not actually caused by a worm the proper medical term is Tinea which is a fungus. (Homei A, 2013) Ringworm is classified by…

This book tells the story of Damon Courtenay as he tries to overcome the adversities caused by haemophilia and Aids. After I finished this book, I was disappointed by the treatment people with HIV and Aids received, particularly by the men and women in the medical profession. I don't want to sound hypocritical and judge these people because personally, I don't know how I will react to such situation, particularly in the 1980’s where the knowledge of this disease was very low. I also believe…

Forty eight million surgical inpatient procedures were done in 2015, and the number has steadily gone up since then. Out of those forty eight million, 7.3 million were for the heart. That means that six of every ten surgeries are for the heart (“data”). The type of surgeon that studies and performs surgeries on the heart and lungs is called a cardiothoracic surgeon. As cardiothoracics (cardio) grows, there happened to be a point when it was not commonly known. Since cardio was not commonly known…