Health is a topic of the importance of which should not be underestimated. However, with such a huge amount of information available to the wide audience online, it is hard to make sense of all of the contradicting facts and theories. One day there is new research that suggests the ...Read More
Health is a topic of the importance of which should not be underestimated. However, with such a huge amount of information available to the wide audience online, it is hard to make sense of all of the contradicting facts and theories. One day there is new research that suggests the harmful impact of gluten on your body, the next day another research proves it wrong. So if you want to write some essays on this topic, it is better to rely on data that has been approved by the scientific community and is reliable. Check academic papers published in numerous journals of relevant scientific focus. Outline the issues you want to write about, make sure to build a clear structure in your essay, with a comprehensive introduction, main body, and conclusion. Getting acquainted with samples of similar writings will not hurt either.
Marijuana, or cannabis, is a psychoactive drug that alters the mind. It is a harmful substance that heightens perception and affects the mood of individuals due to its main ingredient, THC. Recreational cannabis has been legal in Canada since the passage of the Cannabis Act...
Being professional, a health professional’s values must align with the values listed in the code of conduct provided by respective dental councils/boards. But professionalism also goes beyond the code of conduct. Dentists should be aware of their social responsibility, the importance of political involvement and...
Introduction: In the film “Girl, Interrupted” the setting is set inside a psychiatric hospital where there are many people which display mental health conditions. The “main” character in this movie is Susanna Kaysen is placed there for her suicide attempt. Which had been from her...
On Sunday February 17th, I attended my first AA meeting at the “Grupo Fe y Amor” location in Los Angeles. I attended the meeting in spanish with my mom who had never been to a meeting before. As we walked into the meeting there were...
I visited two open AA meetings, which is meant to have an open discussion about their substance abuse history and problems dealing with alcohol. People form anywhere was able to come to both meetings, regardless of how ones look and behaves. This also meant that...
Introduction Introduction: The type of group that I chose to observe was a 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) group. The AA group that I attended was an open group. Background: Before attending the group, I called the Las Vegas Central Office for Alcoholics Anonymous to inquire...
I went to three AA meetings to get a better and more personal understanding of how addiction affects people. The three meetings that I went to were AA Discussion in Costa Mesa on Friday, Pride + Program in Newport Beach on Friday, and Women’s Discussion...
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease that has been brought to light in recent years regarding its long-term effects on subjects of repeated head trauma in the form of traumatic brain injuries (TBI). CTE has been made infamous due to recent publications regarding...
Our bodies are made up of trillions of tiny little things called cells. Each cell has a different job to do. Red blood cells give energy to our body, white blood cells fight off disease, and platelets help the body stop bleeding after getting a...
Abstract Small, membrane-encapsulated transport vesicles known as exosomes present an overwhelming potential in the field of non-invasive biomarker discovery due to their robust integrity in collection from biofluid samples. This minireview briefly discusses their diagnostic and prognostic contributions in three different pathology domains of high...
Abstract Coronary heart disease is a condition caused by decreased blood flow to the heart muscle due to atherosclerotic plaque and deposition of different substances that lead to narrowing of the coronary arteries, the plaque or even clotting is because of obesity unhealthy lifestyle and...
The history of Herpes traces back to Ancient Greece. The Greeks coined the term Herpes which means “to creep/crawl” and they documented the description of the virus as sores appearing on the surface of people’s skin. The Roman Emperor Tiberius banned kissing in ceremonies to...
Introduction Traumatic brain injuries are complex in the sense that unlike physical medical conditions, they cannot be easily seen with the naked eye. Traumatic brain injuries, let’s call them ‘TBI’ for short are, common yet not often talked about in society. The problem with brain...
Introduction Leukemia is a cancer that affects bone marrow and damages the formation of blood cells, and it is the most common childhood cancer and accounts for 30% of all childhood malignancies (Amitay & Keinan-Boker, 2015). While there are several forms of childhood leukemia, acute...
Introduction Leukemia is infamously known disease in modern times, yet a lot of people don’t have an exact understanding of what it really is, or how it started. Yet, despite being given so little attention, it raises many health concerns and affects a large portion...
Introduction The consumption of performance-enhancing drugs (PED), more commonly known as ‘doping’, continues to have a scandalous effect across all sporting communities. Doping is notorious for having severe health problems for the consumer, such as abnormal growth, heart disease, diabetes, thyroid problems, hypertension, blood cancers...
Introduction Performance-enhancing drugs have existed within sports for centuries which has inevitably resulted in positive and negative impacts on the health of athletes and on sport. Sport has been directly linked to the use of performance-enhancing agents since the original Olympic Games in Greece which...
Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in the developed world. It is a broad term used for the conditions affecting the heart and blood vessels. Although it is a preventable and predictable disease to a...
Introduction The performance-enhancing drugs have been around for a long time and athletes and none-athletes have been using them since the early 1930s. These drugs were not widely used back then but as the new generation came to the world, the number of unsafe and...