Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disorder that is characterized by abnormal hemoglobin formations, the oxygen carrying component to the body, within the red blood cells.1,2 Sickled red blood cells adhere to blood vessels and can cause occlusion, causing pain crises and result in acute and chronic tissue injury.1,2 Therefore, when making a treatment plan for a patient with sickle cell anemia one must take into consideration the patient’s hemoglobin and hematocrit levels. Patients with sickle cell
Marlo Jenner once stated, “That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hospitals are not bad at all; they're good hospitals, but they're just working with what they know, and St. Jude's is working with what nobody else knows, because they're doing research.” Although St. Jude looks like every other hospital from the outside, the patients, families, and doctors allow the interior of St. Jude to stand out amongst all other hospitals around the world. Last
environments, applies not only to human beings, but also to organisms as small as a bacterium or a virus. It suggests that one's biological makeup can either be better suited or simply inferior to another's in regards to their surroundings. In this case, natural selection would allow the advantaged organism to thrive, while the other suffers or dies out completely. Over time, the creatures with the most advantageous traits will reproduce and dominate the particular habitat's population. Similarly
controversial topics in medicine. By definition, it is the delivery of genetic material into a cell for the purpose of either correcting a genetic problem or giving a cell a new biological function. The purpose of gene therapy is to correct an undesirable trait or disease by introducing a modified copy of a gene into a target cell. In most cases, the purpose is not to replace a defective gene in the host cell but rather to provide a new copy so that the correct protein can be expressed and the detrimental
Introduction Education is one of the most important aspects of human resource development and Poor school performance not only results in the child having a low self-esteem, but also causes significant stress to the parents so that , early school success is clearly related to later success and health Promoting optimal child health and development increases the likelihood of school success and is therefore important not only for children's immediate outcomes, but also for their future. Academic
Was the Black Panther Party Movement Successful? The Black Panther Party was one of the most influential black movement organizations of the late 1960s and to others more criminal than political. The group was formed in California in 1966 and they played a short but important role in the civil rights movement for 16 years (1966-1982). The founders of the Black Panther Party were Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California. They both participated in peaceful protests before starting up the