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I have family history of diabetes. My paternal grandfather and both my parents suffered from diabetes. Along with this, I have a sedentary life style where my professional engagements don’t leave me much time for physical exercise. The above two …

The main role of a healthcare professional is to serve as an instrument in augmenting the medical condition of a patient. This process, also known as therapeutic intervention, could be delivered to a patient through a variety of approaches. As …

Motor-skill learning is the process by which an individual gets to acquire precisely adjusted movements where the amount, direction and timing of response are in tandem with the variations in the regulating stimulus (Terry, 2009, p. 1). For instance, the …

Motor skills learning is usually an active process interrelated with cognition (Derri & Pachta, 2007, p. 38). This means that the skill concept is one perspective of cognitive concept learning particularly in physical education; where the concern is the way …

The emergence of a community that passes the drugs between users on the basis of friendship, support and need – with money rarely involved – comes amid a resurgence of research into the possible therapeutic benefits of psychedelics. This is …

South Africa remains at the centre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic sweeping the world. Reports by WHO (2008) showed that of the 47. 9 million people in South Africa, 5. 7 million or 11. 9 percent have HIV. Around 1,000 people …

It was clear that government action was a key aspect of efforts to address the issue of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. With a more stable political environment, foreign aid, and pressure from the international community, the government drafted a framework …

In conjunction with the millennium development goals, South Africa has set its specific targets. In its report in 2005, the South African government stated that it has identified earlier deadlines for the actions intended to achieve the development goals and …

1. Islamic hospitals and ‘bimaristans’ were organised and set up to try to cure their patients and give them treatment instead of simply caring for them. They offered medical care to everyone whether they were rich or poor or of …

The CT and the MRI machines are diagnostic scanners used in the field of radiology to examine the body. Generally, both scanners have their individual uses but their function overlaps in certain situations. “The Computerized Axial Tomography makes use of …