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that contains no bias information. The article was published less than 20 years ago and the information is still relevant today. The quote from Spence who is honorary consultant psychiatrist to Sheffield Care Trust and a reader in psychiatry at the University of Sheffield comes from New Scientist magazine that has been in publication since 1956. The information provided is well written and informative. These quotes were put together to show that a well-written magazine could be mistaken for a…

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation is a non-profit organization that has raised $569.4 million to support clinical and translational research at medical institutions worldwide (The Breast Cancer Research Foundation). The Breast Cancer Research Foundation was founded in 1993 by Evelyn Lauder. She is accredited with coming up with the use of the pink ribbon to symbolize breast cancer. Mrs. Lauder’s…

2008). Disinfection in hospitals especially in medical training hospitals is of significant concern for both the medical professionals and the general community. There has been increasing number of infectious diseases in our settings, medical students may contaminate their hands with gram negative bacilli, S. aureus, Clostridium difficile ,enterococci and also hepatitis B Virus when performing…

old enough to realize that everyone’s effort is not the same, but everyone’s trophy is the same. Some people believe that receiving rewards at a young age is important. Kenneth Barish, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at Weill Medical College, Cornell University and author…

The exact cause of insomnia is unknown for many. However according to the Sleep Management Institute (SMI), (2010) it has been linked to “psychological, physiological causes, medication, caffeine and nicotine, alcohol, the environment and other medical issues.” It is very ironic that many think the use of alcohol will enhance sleep, however the opposite occurs, and can compound the issue causing many other health…

save up to $600 a year by choosing a retailer's store-brand infant formula. "A new parent today is met with a dizzying array of marketing messages when it comes to doing what is best for their babies," said Dr. Barbara Levine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. "Nowhere is this truer than in the area of infant formulas. Thanks to strict government regulation, the fact is that there is very little, if any, differentiation in the nutritional values touted by the various national brands…

asked about best practices nationwide. The second is the U.S. News & World Report directory of best Psychiatric hospitals. The company is a web-based media business that publishes annual rankings and analysis, being especially known for its “Best Colleges” and “Best Hospitals” lists. The hospitals ranked in the ten first places of the current directory are “… recommended by at least 5% of the psychiatric specialists…

Chemotherapy: Cancers Poison Treatment If a doctor walked up to you and said: I am going to treat what is making you sick with “poison” you would think they are crazy! Chemotherapy, a treatment for cancer, is a poison called nitrogen mustard (mustard gas) used during World War II. Paul Ehrlich the father of chemotherapy found that people exposed to the gas had lower White Blood Cell counts than people exposed to the poison (Tharu, 2014, paras. 3). This was the birth of chemotherapy as a therapy…

Atomic Energy Agency in 1967 had an idea to explode a nuclear bomb to unleash the gas, though that idea died quickly and a new one was made by Halliburton Corporation (Armstrong, Rachel.) They came up with an idea of high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking. The process of fracking is taking anywhere from five to seven million gallons of water laced with sand and a startling menu of poisonous chemicals to crack the shale rock and release the methane gas trapped…

Morimoto, and Faith Gunning-Dixon. They collaborated on it at the Dept. of Psychiatry at the Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in White Plains New…