watching the Discovery Channel on television. While watching‚ I was particularly in awe of how boundless the discovery of Science is. At the age of seventeen‚ I read “Exploring the Biomedical Revolution” by Howard Hughes Medical Institute. For me‚ the most intriguing part of the book were the stories behind every great biomedical discovery. I felt privileged to have an in-depth knowledge about symptoms of diseases like cystic fibrosis‚ Lyme disease and Malaria that I never knew existed. All the eye-catching
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Op-Ed on Quality Care To: Chief Editor of New York Times From: Swapan Prajapati Subject: Quality and patient safety in USA Date: December 3‚ 2012 The purpose of this article is to drive attention to rising issues of quality care and patient safety in United States. In spite of launching major initiatives and investing heavily in recourses to improve patient safety‚ there has been no significant improvement in health care quality in past decade1. One of the challenges in measuring quality
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protection in the presence of endogenous aggressive factor such as gastric acid by mainly increasing secretion of gastric mucosa and decreasing gastric acid secretion‚ also PGE2 has a role in regulating the kidney function by maintaining vascular tone‚ blood flow‚ and salt and water excretion. Moreover‚ there are important and opposing functions of both prostacyclin PGI2 and thromboxane TXA2 in maintaining the vascular homeostasis and good cardiovascular health‚ in detail‚ TXA2 is synthesised in the platelets
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Pooja Patel 08/19/2013 Documentary of Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale Mrs. Jones MA 125 Through the eyes of survivors and family members and the producer Merlyn Ness‚ "Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale" chronicles how a "miracle" treatment for hemophilia became an agent of death for 10‚000 Americans. Hemophilia is a rare genetic blood clotting disorder‚ most often passed from mother to son‚ resulting in severe crippling and often death. But in the 1960s‚ Judith Gram Pool dicoverd cryo precipitate from the
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 The Supreme Court ruled on June 28‚ 2012 that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 also known as the ObamaCare Act is to be upheld‚ even the controversial parts‚ where people without health insurance will have to pay a fine starting in 2014. The ObamaCare Act was started to “help reduce overall health care costs by making services available to 32 million who currently cannot get health insurance”(useconomy.about.com‚ part of
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In high school‚ I had the opportunity to learn about a number of different subjects‚ starting from introduction to engineering to world history. Out of the many choices‚ there was only one that captivated me: Biomedical science. When I walked into class on the first day of school‚ I saw a cadaver at the back of my classroom. My teacher had told the class to find out why this lady had died‚ and I was the first in my class to find out. The poor lady had died from a clogged artery. As a child I had
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affordable‚ or logical‚ so sacrifices have to be made! This is where such problems become extremely difficult to solve. Does one make a decision that benefits them or everyone as a whole? Does one accept and respect the decision made by a health care practitioner‚ or does one decide on their own? Furthermore‚ looking back at what happened in Dublin twelve years ago‚ can one allow a parent to deny their child access to the MMR vaccine‚ the lack of which happened to be the root cause in the case
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To pursue a career in Biomedical science is to choose a path of limitless discoveries. The human race is regarded as the most advanced specie on this planet‚ and we find our identity through our advancement in science. Biomedical science is a field that is constantly evolving and as a result has changed the lives of countless individuals. It is vital for our civilisation that medicinal science continues to flourish thus I feel compelled to contribute to this constantly growing field. My love and
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that I wanted to be a biomedical engineer when I started my junior year of high school. Biomedical engineering is using the concepts of biology and design to improve or create products in the medical field. Biomedical engineering is a growing field because the baby-boomer generation is getting older and they are in need of medical devices. Biomedical engineering is something I am very excited to be able to study. I will explain to you what motivated me to pursue biomedical engineering‚ how previous
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Patient Satisfaction Patient satisfaction is at the core of patient centered medicine. Improved patient satisfaction not only leads to an enhanced patient experience—something every sick or injured patient deserves—it is also associated with improved treatment outcomes. Measuring and reporting on patient satisfaction with health care has become a major industry. Background Patient satisfaction is a widely used health care quality metric. However‚ the relationship between patient satisfaction and
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