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Infection disease acquired in hospitals have changed during the past decades, Gram-negative pathogens were predominantly responsible. However serious infections were brought under control with the discovery of penicillin, but as resistance to antibiotics spread new and dangerous superbug strains emerged. The main infective threat on the increase in micro-organisms that is resistant to many antibiotics…

Best Hair Treatment There are many causes for hair fall ranging from male pattern hair loss to thyroid disease, Iron deficiency anaemia etc. Many causes are gender specific like Androgenic alopecia in males and female pattern hair loss seen usually in females. There has been ample research that shows that losing about 100-150 hairs per…

Introduction Water is the key to all life; without it, life as we know it would not exist. So it is natural to believe that hydration should have an effect on blood pressure and heart rate, considering our heart is also one of the keys to our life as humans. So we will be testing…

Acute Aseptic Meningitis Due To High Dose Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy for Guillain-Barré Syndrome Abstract The majority of adverse reactions of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy are mild, transient and self-limiting; however, potentially serious complications are rare and occur in less than 5% of patients receiving IVIG therapy. IVIG associated transient aseptic meningitis is an uncommon adverse…

The structure and function of different systems Constancy of the internal environment and the relative stability of physico-chemical parameters in children are provided with the expressed prevalence of anabolic over catabolic processes of exchange. This is a prerequisite for growth and sets the child’s body from the body of adults who intensity of metabolic processes…

Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a common complication in critically ill adults.  Estimates are 30% to 60% of patients in the ICU will go on to develop AKI (Md Ralib, Nor & Pickering, 2017).  Immediate consequences of AKI are higher mortality rate, risk of requiring dialysis, increased length of stay and increased risk of another…

Embolic stroke, a type of ischemic stroke, occurs when a vessel in the brain is blocked.  Brain tissue is deprived of oxygen and can die in just a few minutes.  Thrombotic issues like blood clots contribute to this kind of stroke which constitutes 87% of all strokes.  An embolic stroke occurs when a thrombus travels…

Men’s Health: Men Are far from being the ‘Stronger Sex’, they are Actually the Opposite Introduction: Gender-based Health Disparities While the study of gender in health has allowed for tremendous strides, there has been little benefit to advancing the understanding of men’s health (Habben, 2005). While the majority of social, political, legal, and religious systems…

All civilization has faced health challenges from ancient times to the present. In traditional practice, ethicist usually used casuistry case-based approach as a method of analysis for centuries in Jewish medical ethics. Therapeutic paternalism assumed as usual practice by most health care pros and their patient’s believed that whatever done by health care team will…

Sepsis is defined by the clinical signs and symptoms of a systemic immune response to infection. (1-2) Currently, sepsis on a worldwide level creates a significant level of mortality; and results in approximately one third of all Intensive Care admissions. (3-5) In Victoria alone there are approximately 8500 admissions to Emergency Departments with patients suffering…