I write to you today with the utmost urgency and the implied behest of one who cannot yet read, write, or count. I write to you for the one whose life has not really started. I write to you for six month old Benjamin Carson Thomas who has been diagnosed with a severe spinal hematoma. As you know, a spinal hematoma causes sudden pain and tenderness, followed by weakness and loss of sensation below the affected area of the spinal cord. These effects may progress to complete paralysis in minutes or
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Parents now have the fear of outliving their children. Obesity is an international epidemic that affects millions and the generation between 13 and 24 is the middle of it all. There are many to blame for this problem and different ideas on how it drastically increased. Obesity could be caused through the different types of foods that have been introduced throughout the years. It can also be due in part to fast food companies advertising and selling unhealthy foods. The government has now gotten involved
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One of Americas biggest battles isn’t with another foreign county, but it is with obesity within our own youth. Over the last few century’s, as America moved from rural communities to urban environments, Americas youth has become more obese. Following closely behind Wales, America is the second fattest nation in the world. “Obesity and other closely related overweight conditions are the fifth leading cause of death worldwide” (Lobelo 1). The fattening of Americas youth is a terrifying epidemic
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Peretti, Jacques. "Why Our Food Is Making Us Fat." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 11 June 2012. Web. 10 June 2016. This web article started with the author's point of view as he rode on a bariatric ambulance (an ambulance designed especially to care for the obese). The information gathered from this web source include facts from a twelve year study done at Plymouth hospital, Earl Butz, Surplus of corn, Hank Cardello, and many other important figureheads of the obesity epidemic. This web
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axis. All of these contribute to obesity in America and around the world. So obesity has indeed increased over the years. By 2030 there will be 6 million cases of diabetes, 5 million cases of heart disease and stroke and 4 hundred thousand cases of cancer. Not only that, but today's generation will have a fewer life except than their parents. Leaving the Obesity Epidemic in
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The prevalence in obesity in children and young adults is at an all-time high in the US today and is predisposing children to obesity as adults and therefor morbidity throughout their lifetime 1. There are innumerable factors that influence body weight and many that an individual may have no control over such as genetic make-up, prenatal factors, age, gender, diseases and drugs2. When considering factors that affect weight and that can be controlled, diet is one factor that plays a major contribution
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Health issues are affecting our society as a result we blame the Food industry’s for obesity rates in America. . David Zinczenko blames Fast food Industry for obesity while Radley Balko believes it self-responsibility . They both have different points of views. David Zinczenko blames the fast food industry for childhood obesity in the United States. Childhood obesity has increased to at least 30 percent in this country. Medical costs are skyrocketing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Vemurafenib: A Potentially New Standard of Care? Vemurafenib: A Potentially New Standard of Care? Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer. Advanced metastatic melanoma, stage III or IV, has been incurable and relatively untreatable with “less than 10% of patients responding to traditional chemotherapy” regimens (PubMed Health, 2011). Progress in this area of oncology research has been very slow with the “average prognosis for patients with stage IV metastatic melanoma being 8-18 months”
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and MCHC tests showed that Matt’s RBC count was low. The low red blood count pointed to a diagnosis of anemia. After this series of blood tests, it was determined that he had cancer in his bone marrow and blood. Matt was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia. Matt started taking tyrosine kinase inhibitors to stop the cancer cells from growing. He takes the TKIs orally, and has experienced side effects including nausea and diarrhea. The feeling of unease often leads to emesis. Matt’s body experiences
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Losing Someone to Cancer In Emily Dickinson’s poem, “accustomed to the dark”, she describes going through hard times when losing a special person and knowing everything will be okay as things “Adjust itself to midnight and life steps almost straight.” She sets up a situation where losing someone to a life threatening situation or a disaster. It’s easier to ignore the truth and live in fear but once we get over our doubts, though it’s difficult we can change the darkness to light. We can live in
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