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That affects more than 25 million women in the United States and potentially 200 million worldwide. This disease is characterized by diminishing the structure of the skeleton (particular the “spongy” bone). This results in an increased risk of fracture. Osteoporosis develops silently over a period of years, eventually progressing to a point where a fracture…

An dysrhythmia of the heart is an irregular heartbeat rhythm. Ventricular tachycardia is an dysrhythmia in which the lower chambers of the heart, the ventricles, beat unusually fast. The heart rate is measured with an electrocardiogram, or ECG. This is a machine that measures the electrical impulses from the patient’s heart. This is displayed on…

OCD Disease It was 9:30 a.m., and Nancy, a 36-year-old attorney, had arrived late for work again. Nancy knew she needed to catch up on her legal assignments, but a familiar worry nagged at her. No matter how hard she tried, Nancy could not dislodge the thought that she had left a pot burning on…

I believe that the law should be changed to allow active euthanasia because it is a persons freedom to determine their time of death if given the opportunity. This paper will discuss what it is like to lose a person through a painful death and how the good consequences of legalizing active euthanasia outweigh the…

People do not think of inhalants as drugs because most of the products were never meant to be used that way. Inhalants are ingested by “sniffing” or snorting (through the nose), “bagging” (inhaling fumes from a plastic bag), or huffing (stuffing an inhalant soaked rag into the mouth). Nearly all inhalants produce effects similar to…

Julian Dibbell wrote about a violent event that occurred in LambdaMOO, a virtual reality community. To some, Dibbell states, this event was nothing more than “spidery flitting of fingers across standard QWERTY keyboards” (450). On the other hand, to the victims it was much more. In his essay one of the victims was quoted as…

Silk-fibroin Grafted with Chitosan is a Promising Polymer-based Nanoparticle for Drug Delivery Abstract I. Introduction Drug delivery systems are crucial to promote the efficacy of pharmaceutical compounds, as these carriers contain the active drug. The drug can be dissolved, dispersed, encapsulated, absorbed, or attached to the carrier. Therefore, the material used in the composition of the…

Document the process of how the bionic eye works and analyse the for and against arguments of the bionic eye. Close to 40 million people in the world have been affected by blindness. Many of these patients can be successfully treated with surgery or medication. Some pathologies cannot be corrected with existing treatments. When light…

When my oldest daughter Molly was four she woke in the middle of the night vomiting blood. I rushed her to the emergency room at the Children’s Hospital. She continued to vomit blood for several hours as we sat in the waiting room. Eventually, she was given a small dose of Zofran while we waited…

This thesis describes the development of wireless patient simulator which is carried in Zentrum für Angewandte Simulation, Hochschule Furtwangen. Patient simulator are devices which can be programmed to work as human body or a medical condition. The patient simulator which is present in university is not easy to transport from one place to other plus…