New discoveries and innovations have continued their rounds in the health-related professions. Through the years, they continue to create wonders in patient care and outcomes. One of the recently discovered ones, for example, are new medications for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis The lungs, as we all know, are important organs in the body […]
For years, researchers have found a way to generate artificial veins. However, most of those attempts at creating artificial veins don’t come close to imitating organic processes. In recent years, researchers at Queen Mary University London (QMUL) have established a self-assembling organic material that grows and changes shape, possibly leading to artificial veins. These researchers […]
Tessie tears a bit after reading a tear-jerking chapter from the book she’s currently obsessed with. Why on earth should her favorite character die because of lung cancer? Aren’t there any treatments that could cure lung cancer? Would’ve she gotten better? She scolds herself for being too emotional and too attached to the story. As […]
Kayla is not feeling well. This afternoon, after taking a nap, she woke up with a fever and body weakness. She heads to the kitchen to get herself a glass of water as she encounters her sister, Elaine, who just arrived from hospital duty. After telling Elaine about how she was feeling, Elaine rushes to […]
At some point of our nursing careers, we might feel like giving up. “I can’t do this anymore. Nursing isn’t for me,” we might say. Nursing is one tough profession. It isn’t just for anybody. For one to be a successful nurse and to have a long nursing career, he/she should be determined enough as […]
CDC, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) endorse that all U.S. health care workers get vaccinated annually against influenza including physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, therapists, technicians, emergency medical service personnel, dental personnel, pharmacists, laboratory personnel, autopsy personnel, and students and trainees. Also included in the […]
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