Annotated Bibliography Faith Howlin English 111 F02 Ms. Deborah Burdin October 12, 2011 Annotated Bibliography Zwanger, M. (2009, August 4). Narcotics Abuse. E Medicine Health. Retrieved from http://emedicinehealth.com/narcotic_abuse/page11_em.htm In this article it shows various narcotics drugs names and how people can get addicted to them. Along with narcotics names it also has statistics about drugs and prescription drug related deaths.
The sources that the author cites are informative and up to date, as well as reputable. The book is written more to satisfy the further education of laymen and is written in such a way that they can better understand. Not only does the book show the danger of the avian flu virus, but it is also helpful in pointing to the economic effects of the disease. Johnson, Niall. Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic: A Dark Epilogue Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine.
In the context of OCD, this measures the extent to which two different clinicians agree on the diagnosis of the same patient. The fact that Woody et al 1995 postulated that this reliability was very high in Y-BOCS scale implies that the diagnostic criteria outlines the specific symptoms of OCD in detail and with clarity. This explains why such a low number clinicians disagreed on the diagnosis of the same patients, as clearly outlined symptoms that are specific to OCD reduce the likeliness of a clinician misinterpreting the diagnostic criteria and hence, misdiagnosing the patient. Consequently, clinicians can be confident that this diagnostic criteria can be relied upon to provide the correct symptoms of OCD provide the patient’s symptoms at the diagnostic interview are an accurate representation of the severity of their OCD. This
TMA05 Access to specialised knowledge makes decision making easier in contemporary society? Discuss with reference to one or more theories from Chapter 4, using examples of medical knowledge. Primarily this is an essay about specialised medical knowledge and its impact on decision making in contemporary society. The essay will be broken into two sections. How knowledge is accessed through experts and how they produce their knowledge and how through hierarchy the message of how to deal with current ‘swine flu’ crisis we are asked to use our ‘common sense’ to slow down the spread of the disease.
One of the more interesting topics that caught my attention especially is the topic of the tobacco industry. In the chapter entitled, “Doubt is our Product,” Oreskes and Conway show that in the 1950s, scientific evidence emerged demonstrating beyond a reasonable doubt that the tar in tobacco smoke caused cancer. Interestingly, although this information was made public, the tobacco industry knew this information well before it was publicized. In a panic, the tobacco industry responded by trying to get science on its side, spending large sums of money on scientific and medical research that could possibly show that tobacco was a non-hazardous product. As a result, tobacco executives funded aggressive public relations campaigns that supplied the public with a “pro-cigarette” message along with facts that there was no scientific basis for the charges against tobacco.
Methotrexate, Chemo Therapy Medication Annmarie Wallace Monroe College Professor, Morris 9/28/2012 In this research paper, I will be talking about a medicine named Methotrexate. Methotrexate has been used in the United States since 1953; it has been approved by the FDA to treat certain types of cancers. Since then, Medical researchers have discovered other important uses for this drug. Some of the important uses are Rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and termination of pregnancy. This medicine works by making the immune system less active and suppressing the blood cells that cause inflammation.
Research of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Tasha Pung Davenport University Thomas Meyer HSAD302 December 16, 2013 Abstract This paper contains information on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) of 1985. In this research paper you will discover part of the history leading up to EMTALA, how the civil rights movement & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were involved and why it came to exist. The research also discusses what the regulation is about, who the regulation was created for, and why it is important in many ways. Also included is an overview of the societal benefit of this so called “anti-patient dumping” law, the costs and liabilities it creates on hospitals, physicians,
(2004) Gynecologists’ attitudes regarding human papilloma virus vaccination: a survey of Fellows of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Infectious Diseases of Obstetrics and Gynecology 12(3–4), 127–133. Walboomers, J.M. et al. (1999), “Human papillomavirus is a necessary cause of invasive cervical cancer worldwide”.
Bibliography Andrea C. Villanti, E. J. (2011). Food and Drug Administration Regulation of Tobacco: Integrating Science, Law, Policy, and Advocacy. American Journal of Public Health , 1160-1162. Hawthorne, F. (2011).
Bayes' theorem was essentially a formula for updating any kind of belief when confronted with new evidence. According to the author, current wisdom suggests that t-PA "probably does work better", but costs $1,530 per use, compared to the $220 price tag of streptokinase. In order to prove the difference, Genentech, t-PA's manufacturer, sponsored a huge clinical trial called GUSTO, whose results "looked so good for t-PA that the trial's leading researchers declared the drug clinically superior to streptokinase". GUSTO showed that 93.7% of patients who received t-PA survived versus 92.7% of patients who received streptokinase survived. One percent may not seem significant, but when there are approximately half a million people who die of a heart attack each year, this means 5,000 more people would be saved.