Community Health Needs Assessment During the past year, a focused community health needs assessment was conducted by Trinity Community Hospital. The assessment targeted cancer, orthopedic, and cardiovascular services within the hospital’s primary service region. It utilized information from multiple sources, including epidemiological surveys, state healthcare facilities’ planning guidelines, interviews with physicians and other healthcare professionals, and community focus groups. Following are
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Pathophysiology Lee-Ellen C. Copstead Key Questions • What is pathophysiology? • How are etiology and pathogenesis used to predict clinical manifestations and response to therapy? • How are normal and abnormal physiologic parameters defined? • What general factors affect the expression of disease in a particular person? • What kinds of information about disease can be gained through understanding concepts of epidemiology? http://evolve.elsevier.com/Copstead/ •
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Importance of physical appearance Nowadays people put a lot of effort to become more beautiful in order to develop their self-confidence and today it is common to see them joining to a gym or fitness center, going to a beauty salon, or even putting themselves under the knife of cosmetic surgeons to become more and more prevalent recently. However, why do people always focus on and take extra care of their physical appearance? First of all, people are often influenced by the media. Many advertisements
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May 2016 A Recipe for Invention: Jewel Plummer Cobb Jewel Plummer Cobb is known for being an American biologist. She was born on the 17th of January 1924 in Chicago, IL. However, Cobb was not only a biologist but a researcher, specifically in Cancer, and an administrator in College as well as teaching too. Jewel used to have a family of scientists, as her father was a physician and her mother used to teach physics, furthermore, this is the reason she got interested in biology. In 1942,
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Abstract Skin diseases on the external aspect of the ear are seen in a variety of medical disciplines. Dermatologists, othorhinolaryngologists, general practitioners, general and plastic surgeons are regularly consulted regarding cutaneous lesions on the ear. This article will focus on those diseases wherefore surgery or laser therapy is considered as a possible treatment option or which are potentially subject to surgical evaluation. Anatomical characteristics When evaluating skin lesions
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OVERVIEW ➤ The word "cancer" comes from the Greek physician, Hippocrates, who is considered as "Father of Medicine". It is used to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors. ➤ The estimated number of people living with cancer in the U.S. is 13,776,25. ➤ Forms of cancer: Anal Cancer, Brain Stem Glioma, Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, etc. ➤ Cancer affects all age groups but older people are at more of a risk. DIAGNOSIS ➤ Some tests to determine if you have cancer are: Blood and urine
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being used to fight a major disease: Cancer. The use of antibodies for tumor targeting is becoming more prevalent due to it being a “more selective and better-tolerated therapy of cancer” (Schliemann et al, 201). The conventional methods that are currently being used to treat cancer lack specificity. This causes normal tissues that are not affected by the disease, to be exposed to the life-threatening side effects of the conventional methods of treating cancer (Schliemann et al 201). Some conventional
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carcinogens found in pesticides have been linked to the development of various types of cancers. One type of cancer that seemed to have a presence among farmers who sprayed their crops with pesticides was cancer known as non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. This cancer is the most prevalent when relating to the people who administer the pesticides. Alavanja states that “Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) is among the most widely studied cancers in relation to pesticide use. In reviews of the literature, Blair & Zahm (32, 34)
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Immune Deficiency (SCID) was one of the first genetic disorders to be treated successfully with gene therapy, proving that the approach could work. However, the first clinical trials ended when the viral vector triggered leukemia (a type of blood cancer) in some patients. Since then, researchers
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is cancer. Almost every family has been affected by cancer some way or another. According to American Cancer Society (n.d.), “Cancer is the general name for a group of more than 100 diseases. Although there are many kinds of cancer, all cancers start because abnormal cells grow out of control. Untreated cancers can cause serious illness and death.” Breast Cancer Breast cancer is one of the many cancer diseases. Breast cancer is a cancer that forms in the cells of the breast. Breast cancer normally
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