Medicine Essays

Right bundle branch block (RBBB) is a commonly encountered cardiac abnormality on  the electrocardiogram (ECG). As the name suggests, ‘Right bundle branch block’ (RBBB) occurs when the  transmission of electrical impulses is  either delayed or does not take place at all, along the right side of the heart (Rowlands, 2003). …

Since more than a decade, an infectious disease has threatened and caused deaths to hundreds of lives in United States alone that poses severe potentials of progressing rapidly while beginning from usual influenza symptoms and resulting in mortality. (Chin, 2000) In the year 1993, residents of southwestern United States confronted …

Introduction The Society for Medical Anthropology defines the term “medical anthropology” as a subfield of anthropology that draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology to better understand those factors which influence health and well being (broadly defined), the experience and distribution of illness, the prevention and treatment of sickness, …

Introduction.  MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine), known by the street names Ecstasy, E, X, or XTC [1] is a semisynthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.  MDMA is a ring substituted amphetamine derivative [2] structurally related to the hallucinogens and the stimulants, whose primary effect is the stimulation of secretion as well as inhibition …

The merger between physics and medicine in the 20th century has paved the way to the technological advancements in medicine that have made possible the significant increase in the human life’s expectancy to approximately 30 years. In particular, these technological advancements have affected procedures in medical fields such as Microbiology …

Which one activity made the greatest impact on your desire to be a physician and why? (Up to 1900 characters including spaces) The state of America’s healthcare is such that the 47 million uninsured Americans have little hope of getting quality healthcare. Millions more wallow in poverty and unemployment. Still, …

Radiation Therapy, also called radiotherapy or x-ray therapy or irradiation, is the use of certain type of energy called ionizing radiation to cure abnormal cells like cancer ad tumors.[1] Radiation therapy injures or destroy almost all nearby cells indiscriminately, whether the abnormal or cancer cells or the healthy and normal …

Public health efforts and those of private medicine complement each other and together serve the spectrum of health service needs of American society. Public health and clinical medicine have complementary roles in caring for the health of the American people. Although they often address the same health problems, their attention …

A Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) is a person trained in various areas of holistic healing, including Herbal Medicine, Holistic Nutrition, Body-Mind Medicine, (http://www.gcnm.com/holistic-health-practitioner-program). An HHP should have a holistic thinking that treat the whole being of a person rather than to cure the illness alone. This includes the emotional and …

Introduction             It is no big surprise the trend that our teens today have set themselves especially pertaining to beauty and body perception. Although plastic surgery is still a first world “thing,” because of technology availability, accessibility as well as affordability, more and more countries has come to accept its …