About 11,000 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer and 3600 will die. (Atkinson) Cervical Cancer is cancer of the cervix, the lower narrow part of the uterus. The uterus is hollow, pear-shaped organ where a baby grows during a women’s pregnancy. (Facts) Morton 2 Merck began marketing Gardasil in 2006 after the Food and Drug Administration approved it for females ages 9 to 26. The vaccine is the first of its kind to build immunity against two strains of HPV, which lead to 70% of cervical cancer cases in the United States.
According to Schull’s drug handbook (2006), Phytonadione acts on the liver to promote the production of active prothrombin, proconvertin, plasma thromboplastin component, and Stuart factor. In other words, it promotes blood clotting. The safe dose for neonate is 0.5 to 1 mg injected intramuscularly within one hour of birth. Adverse reactions include: hyperbilirubinemia, pain, swelling, tenderness at injection site, and anaphylactoid reactions. Because neonates in the first few hours of life usually don’t have adequate vitamin K in their blood stream, physician often prescribes Phytonadione to prevent hemorrhaging of the newborn.
This is called choridal neovascularization. These blood vessels leak blood and fluid into the retina, causing distortion of vision. The dry form of macular can also lead to the wet form. Only about 10% of patients with macular degeneration develop the wet form, they make up the majority who experience serious vision loss from the disease. Macular degeneration can be passed from parent to child, smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and being light skinned, female and having light eye color are also risks for macular degeneration (webmd copy write 2005-2014, LLC) Glaucoma is an eye disease characterized by dysfunction of the ocular drainage system.
Atherosclerosis is a multi focal, smoldering immunoinflammatory disease of medium sized and large arteries filled by lipids. (Curtis M. Rimmerman, 2008) When plaque builds up the condition is called Atherosclerosis, the build up of plaque over many years.If the flow of oxygen rich blood to your heart muscle is reduced or blocked, Angina or a heart attack can occur. Angina is chest pain or discomfort. It may feel like pressure or squeezing in your chest. Pain can also occur in the shoulders, arms, neck, jaw or back.
Most infants with cystic fibrosis are born with Meconium Ileus. Most infants without this condition are diagnosed four to six weeks later when parents and doctors notice that the infant coughs frequently, and has not gained weight, even though it is eating enough. To test for cystic fibrosis, doctors often use a basic test called a sweat test. Cystic fibrosis has been affecting humans since the middle ages. Cystic fibrosis was unstudied until the early 1900’s.
To begin with let’s look at surgery, there have been many studies that support that the healing of the patient that is optimistic that the healing process is completed faster and with greater health that that of a pessimist. To begin with I will be looking at two articles that focus on children and the other on adults. In our life it is not established on whether a person is young or old, the fact is that a person which is optimistic does have a much greater chance for a better and a much happier healthier live. There is an article called “Comparative Risk and Perceived Control: Implications for Psychological and Physical Well-Being Among Older Adults”, that was written by Ruthig, Chipperfield, Perry, Newall, and Swift, who wrote about a study that had been done on older adults. This article is based upon the adults' perceptual experience on suffering a hip fracture in comparison to others their own age was studied by the authors.
Peaking in January and February, Respiratory syncytial virus is the virus causing most common colds, when it is limited to the upper respiratory tract. Unfortunately when the virus aggravates the lower respiratory tract, complications occur, including respiratory distress, pneumonia, bronchiolitis and possibility the development of asthma. Pruitt also states that each year 125,000 children (mostly under 6 months of age) require hospitalization, and of these, about 2,500 die (Pruitt 63). Beyond this age, by about two years old, children have been exposed to RSV and have developed and immunity. If diagnosis of this infection is made through cultures of respiratory secretions, treatment begins immediately.
It increases chances of peptic ulcers and gastric adenocarcinoma. (Suzanne C. Smeltzer & Brenda G. Bare, 2004) The textbook mentions that a simple blood test can detect H. pylori. If you test positive the treatment of choice is multiple antibiotics, a proton pump inhibitor and H2 blockers for fourteen days. Resistance to H. pylori to metronidazole and clarithomycin is on the rise. The article explains in depth the different tests for H. pylori such as another blood test to recheck needs to be done at least six months after treatment to allow antibodies titers to decrease.
Eczema will permanently go away by age of 3 in about half of affected infants. Adherence to the basic elements of treatment will usually work well, but only rarely can eczema be said to be curable. Most people with eczema have a family history of the condition or a family history of the other allergic conditions such as Hay fever or Asthma. The nature of the link between these conditions is inadequately understood. Up to 20% of children and 1%-2% of adults are believed to have eczema (this has been said by MedicineNet.com).
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, is the third leading cause of death in babies (U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services). More babies die in a year of SIDS than cancer, leukemia, heart disease, cystic fibrosis, and child abuse combined (“Sudden Infant Death”). But what is SIDS? The definition is the death of an infant within its first year that cannot be explained after an autopsy, an investigation of the place where the baby died, and a review of the baby's and its family's medical history. But what truly causes it is a mystery that leaves scientists and doctors with just guesses and tests to do.