Essays

In general people with learning disabilities are treated the same as other people in law. People with learning disabilities who are competent have the right to make their own decisions in just the same way as anyone else. However people …

An essential part of providing holistic care within the NHS is taking into consideration more than the clinical treatment, it is crucial to accommodate the personal, social and psychological needs of the patient by respecting patients as diverse individuals In …

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is defined as a retrovirus that makes our immune system fail. HIV occurs by the transfer of blood, semen, vaginal fluid or breast milk and not, according to a common misbelief, through saliva. This transmission can …

Despite the technological advances and services apparent in the world of healthcare and present in our modern day, the unfortunate truth is however, that not everyone has the opportunity and fortunate accessibility to such medicalization. Health is a state of …

Asymptomatic Bacteriuria occurs in about 5% of woman and is important in pregnancy where, untreated, 20-30% of cases will develop acute pyelonephritis. Bacteriuria in pregnancy is also associated with premature birth, low birth weight and increased perinatal mortality. It is …

Medicine is getting better through time as there were many discoveries such as the smallpox and Pasteur’s germ theory, but just because medicine was improving it doesn’t mean that health was improving. Health, hygiene and medicine are very important but …

HIV and AIDS were completely unheard of in the medical community up until the early 1980s, the emergence of these and related illnesses were initially isolated to specific communities, namely male homosexuals, however, the emergence of newly reported cases, which …

Cancer is a non-communicable (non-infectious) disease, in other words it is not caused by pathogens. Cancer is caused when abnormal cells in the body divide by mitosis in an uncontrolled way by using the enzyme telomerase; this gives rise to …

Netball is also played in local clubs, which cater for recreational participation and for more serious players wishing to play at a high level club, county and national competitions. The game and the high quality clubs are more commonly found …

Some teams have hit more home runs and others have won more games but no major league baseball team has ever fielded such a complete and dominating baseball team as the 1927 New York Yankees. Even, seventy-seven years later, Murderers’ …