...be infected and continue to have sex, the guilt of knowing you may infect someone else will probably keep you up at night What are STI or STD testing or screenings? • There is no single test or screening to check for all the different STD's, since each is unique. • As part of a screening for STD's, a health care provider will ask you questions and do a visual exam to look for signs and symptoms • If the health care provider thinks you may have an STI or STD, you may need to take a urine, blood, and other lab test to find out for sure. Where to get tested or screened? • Health Departments, Community Clinics, Planned Parenthood, Family Planning Clinics, and doctors’ offices offer screenings and testing’s • Most clinics provide free or low-cost screenings, testing's, and treatments • To get more information about where to get tested in your area, please call the CDC National STD Hotline at: o English:...
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...person's skin where they grow as long as two feet curled up inside ugly round nodules half an inch to an inch in diameter. Inside the nodules the worms reproduce by releasing millions of microscopic offsprings called microfilaria that wriggle their way throughout the body moving beneath the skin, discoloring it as they migrate, and causing lesions and such intense itching that victims sometimes commit suicide. Eventually, the microfilaria invade the eyes and gradually blind the victim. Spraying pesticides to eradicate the black fly faltered when it developed an immunity to the pesticides. Moreover, the only drugs available to treat the parasite in humans have been so expensive, have such severe side effects, and require such lenghty hospital stays that the treatments are impractical for the destitute victims who live in isolated villages. In many countries people have fled the areas along the rivers, abandoning large tracts of rich fertile land. Many of them, however, eventually return because distant lands prove difficult to farm.Most villagers along the rivers come to accept the nodules, the torturous itching, and eventual blindness as an inescapable part of life. In 1979, Dr. William Campbell, a research scientist working for Merck and Company, an American drug company, discovered evidence that one of the company's best-selling animal drugs,...
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...be dated back to Babylonian times. Progression of the virus was nonexistent many generations ago. In fact, there was no medical progression available to treat chickenpox. Many complications occurred due to the spreading all the disease very quickly due to the lack a medical treatment. 30 years ago, Technology, medical research and clinical advancements help to break the chain all this communicable disease. Prevention a medical treatment within the last 30 years has helped Society literally eradicate chickenpox. OVERVIEW The varicella -zoster virus is extremely contagious to the human population. Chickenpox attacks the human nervous system resulting in severe skin lesions, fever, headache itching, and malaise. The incubation period is usually 14 to 21 days following exposure. The host is usually contagious for up to five days prior to the appearance of the rash and remains contagious up until the rash has scabbed over. Varicella is transmitted via contact and droplets. The virus is usually passed on to individuals when they come into contact with the contagions droplets or from the contact of the contagions blisters. The virus usually last one two weeks then becomes latent in the spinal cord nervous system of the person infected. Although, the host becomes immune to the virus it can resurface as shingles in the adult population. Varicella is usually benign in the children population but is extremely serious in the adult...
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...Chickenpox a Communicable Disease Cynthia Hahn Grand Canyon University: NRS-427V July 5, 2015 Chickenpox is an infection caused by the highly contagious varicella-zoster virus. A common communicable disease which can be a harmless or deadly disease depending on the community which is affected. Education and healthcare prevention will prove evident in the control of the spread of the chickenpox disease. Chickenpox is an airborne disease which is spread by coughing and sneezing of an infected person or direct contact with skin lesions. The initial symptoms of chickenpox are a fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, headache and a sore throat. A red skin rash appears a few days after the initial symptoms and forms small, itchy blisters. “After a chickenpox red spot appears, it usually takes about 1 or 2 days for the spot to go through all its stages, this includes blistering, bursting, drying and crusting over. New red spots will appear every day for up to 5 to 7 days” (Chickenpox (Varicella)-Topic Overview, n.d.). The rash initially appears on the face, back and chest to quickly cover the body including mucous membranes such as the mouth, genital area or in the ears. These symptoms will begin ten to twenty-one days after exposure to a contagious person. The virus can be spread by a person who is infected with chickenpox before symptoms even appear and until all blisters have crusted over...
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...EpiPen is an injection containing epinephrine, this chemical narrows the blood vessel and open airways in the lungs. The effects of this injection can reverse severe low blood pressure, wheezing, hives, severe skin itching, and many different symptoms of an allergic reaction. They also use epinephrine to treat exercise induced anaphylaxis. Mylan offers the first authorized generic for EpiPen Auto injector at half of the wholesale acquisition cost . But as of 2016 , Mylan's EpiPen became the center of attention for scrutiny . Their prices increased by nearly 500 percent over the past seven years. American consumers are definitely not strangers to increased prices on drugs , but based on a few steep price hikes by the Mylan company and their decision to raise the price on EpiPen it caused an outrage. Mylan was at the center of criticism over rising drug prices. EpiPen is basically used by several parents of young children that suffer from food...
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...Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Filipinos are one of the most diligent people around the world. They dedicate a big part of their lives working. They are passionate of their work for their families. Due to long hours of wearing footwear in performing daily activities and routine, many of them tend to acquire fungal foot diseases. These fungal diseases are caused by different types of fungi, including dermatophytes and yeasts which are common in the environment. Most fungi are not dangerous, but some types can be harmful to health. In effect, the person who is affected of it might acquire smelly stinky feet which prompt them to find for some herbal and over-the-counter medicines (www.cdc.gov.com, August 17, 2015). Herbal medicines have been widely used within rural areas as a medicinal alternative to cure fungal infections and skin-causing diseases such as ringworm and athlete’s foot in the past. Nowadays, as technology innovates, new products have been released in the market as an alternative to herbal medicines for fungal infections such as foot powder. Foot powder is a solid substance in the form of fine tiny loose particles containing active agents for topical application in the treatment of fungal infections. This helps regulate the odor of the foot and aids in the healing process of the skin diseases such as athlete’s foot. In order to make the foot powder more effective, it must be made out of eight plants that the Department of Health affirms as scientifically proven to...
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...are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumbshows and noise. (Hamlet, 3.2) Most of the poorer audience members, referred to as groundlings, would pay one penny (which was almost an entire day's wage) to stand in front of the stage, while the richer patrons would sit in the covered galleries, paying as much as half a crown each for their seats. In 1599, Thomas Platter, a Swiss doctor visiting London from Basel, reported the cost of admission in his diary: "[There are] separate galleries and there one stands more comfortably and moreover can sit, but one pays more for it. Thus anyone who remains on the level standing pays only one English penny: but if he wants to sit, he is let in at a farther door, and there he gives another penny. If he desires to sit on a cushion in the most comfortable place of all, where he not only sees everything well, but can also be seen then he gives yet another English penny at another door. And in the pauses of the comedy food and drink are carried round amongst the people and one can thus refresh himself at his own cost." (Diary of Thomas Platter) Shakespeare's audience would have been composed of tanners, butchers, iron-workers, millers, seamen from the ships docked in the Thames, glovers, servants, shopkeepers, wig-makers, bakers, and countless other tradesmen and their families. Ben Jonson commented on the diversity of the playgoers in his verses praising Fletcher's The Faithful Shepherdess: The wise and many headed bench That...
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...injections. One birth control pill is known as Yaz (drospirenone/ethinyl estradiol tablets). It is a popular pill, nearly as 100+ million women been asking it since, 2006. It was made by Bayer, and became popular through its commercial ads. The cost of Yaz us reasonably a fair price, $20-$50. Yaz also cause changes in your cervical and uterine lining, making it harder for sperm to reach the uterus and harder for a fertilized egg to attach to the uterus. Yaz is one of the most trust worthy birth control pill there is out there. When it comes to pill, the active ingredient is water, so it could disperse and enter the blood stream. With every positive, not becoming pregnant, there is always a negative. In this case they are side effects. These include sudden numbness or weakness, especially on one side of the body; * sudden and severe headache, confusion, problems with vision, speech, or balance; * chest pain or heavy feeling, pain spreading to the arm or shoulder, nausea, sweating, general ill feeling; * sudden cough, wheezing, rapid breathing, coughing up blood; * pain, swelling, warmth, or redness in one or both legs; * a change in the pattern or severity of migraine headaches; * nausea, upper stomach pain, itching, loss of appetite * swelling in your hands, ankles, or feet; * a breast lump; symptoms of depression Yaz isn’t just for everyone, it is prescribed by the doctor, like most birth control pills are.”Yaz contraceptive pills contain a combination...
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...Communicable Disease Chickenpox Grand Canyon University Concepts in Community and Public Health NRS-427V May 01, 2016 Communicable Disease Chickenpox Here is some background on varicella-zoster virus. Chickenpox and Shingles used to be considered two different diseases, but they are both caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) ("CDC chickenpox," 2016). Varicella is the primary infection that causes the chickenpox and the herpes zoster is the virus that lays dormant in the host until reactivation and causes shingles. About 70-90% of all chickenpox cases that are reported occur in children under the age of 10 years old ("CDC chickenpox," 2016). Before the vaccine was introduced in March of 1995, there were 4 million cases of the chickenpox reported every year and since the introduction of the vaccine this number has decreased by 90% ("CDC chickenpox," 2016). If a person has the chickenpox and they cough or sneeze they can spread the disease. They release tiny droplets that will carry the virus. If they do this around someone that has never had the virus and didn’t get their immunizations as a child there is a possibility for that person to inhale the virus and contract the virus. When the virus is inhaled it enters the lungs and then will pass into the blood stream. It then is carried to the skin and causes the typical chickenpox rash. The chickenpox are very contagious. It can be spread by airborne, droplet, and direct contact with an infected person...
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...be dated back to Babylonian times. Progression of the virus was nonexistent many generations ago. In fact, there was no medical progression available to treat chickenpox. Many complications occurred due to the spreading all the disease very quickly due to the lack a medical treatment. 30 years ago, Technology, medical research and clinical advancements help to break the chain all this communicable disease. Prevention a medical treatment within the last 30 years has helped Society literally eradicate chickenpox. OVERVIEW The varicella -zoster virus is extremely contagious to the human population. Chickenpox attacks the human nervous system resulting in severe skin lesions, fever, headache itching, and malaise. The incubation period is usually 14 to 21 days following exposure. The host is usually contagious for up to five days prior to the appearance of the rash and remains contagious up until the rash has scabbed over. Varicella is transmitted via contact and droplets. The virus is usually passed on to individuals when they come into contact with the contagions droplets or from the contact of the contagions blisters. The virus usually last one two weeks then becomes latent in the spinal cord nervous system of the person infected. Although, the host becomes immune to the virus it can resurface as shingles in the adult population. Varicella is usually benign in the children population but is extremely serious in the adult...
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...Life or Meth? "CRYSTAL brings out so much hate in a person; it can take a beautiful soul and turn it into your worst nightmare. It is life's worst enemy!" - A meth addict's partner According to Frontline.com “There are 1.4 Million meth users in America, and the number is continuously rising.” Methamphetamines are one of the most popular and easiest drugs to find in America. Methamphetamines can be created or “cooked” by using the most common chemicals that can be purchased over the counter in any store, which is the reason why this particular drug appeals to people of all ages. Methamphetamines are created in “Meth Labs” which can be located in any particular type of neighborhood or area in the United States and the numbers of Meth Labs is increasingly growing throughout the past years. Meth is a very dangerous and psychologically addicting drug that acts as a stimulant to the nervous system; Meth heightens a person’s awareness and can also create excitement or euphoria. Meth has had a devastating affect not only to our economy, but especially to the future children of our society. Methamphetamines are commonly known as speed, meth, or chalk. In its smoked form it is referred to as ice, crystal, crank, or glass. Meth is not only an extremely addictive drug but it is also easily prepared or “cooked” in homes nationwide. Unlike any other drugs which mainly originate from natural resources, Meth includes an assortment of dangerous chemicals. Meth will cause people to do...
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...office because she is concerned that her prescription medication looks different from what she normally takes. She mentions that her co-pay was lower too. 1. What are some initial questions you should ask the patient to gather information the physician might need? 2. Critically evaluating the situation, what are three possible explanations of the difference in appearance and cost of the medication? 3. The patient describes the tablet’s appearance and the markings on it. If the physician were to ask your assistance in identifying the medication (which you would present to him/her for verification) what are three possible sources to determine the identity of the medication? Case 2 A patient visits the clinic and it is determined he has a sinus infection as well as a seasonal allergies. The patient’s chart indicates an allergy to penicillin and lists current medications as atenolol. He is given a prescription for Augmentin. 1. Explain whether Augmentin is a reasonable antibiotic choice in this patient. 2. The patient is also given another medication to help with the itching of seasonal allergies. The instructions are to take ½ of a tablet before breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 10 days. How many scored tablets should the patient expect to receive? 3. For the sinus pain, the patient is told to take the following medication: acetaminophen 325 milligrams, one to two tablets taken every 4 to 6 hours as needed for pain. How should this be charted using...
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...Week 1 Discussion Questons What’s Bothering Trevor Cost is something that everyone dislikes when it comes to seeing a doctor. I know from experience what it's like not to have health insurance. I thought I would be able to get Obama Healthcare however I was told I don't make enough hours so I have no insurance. If I was in Trevor shoes I would have chose option 1 to pay $150 to see my PCP. Trevor might not have the money at the time of his visit, if that is the case the doctor office just might work out a payment plan with Trevor. Trevor have to think about what would be best for him and his family. Trevor have several options to access. His only problem is the wait time and the distance of travel. His best option would be to go to the ER. With Trevor experiencing chest pain he will be seen faster. I know that for a fact because when I was experiencing chest pain they took my vitals and rushed me straight to the back. So his wait time would have not been long and he would be closer to finding out what's wrong with him so he can get ready to start his treatments. Trevor wants the best quality of care possible, so he must listen to the healthcare professional in regards with the instructions of his treatments. Trevor must make sure he follows all of the doctor orders in order to get better. Trevor and his wife need to make sure they understand what the doctor is telling him to do. If Trevor choose not to follow the doctor orders his health my get worse. Revolutionary...
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...Original Research Article Menstrual hygiene management amongst school going girls in Kisii County, Kenya Definitions Pubic mixed day secondary schools- government schools with both boys and girls who do not board in the school. ABSTRACT Introduction: Menstruation is a natural phenomenon among matured females who experience shedding of blood for 1-7 days every month from the age of maturity until menopause. Menstrual hygiene management is an issue that is insufficiently acknowledged and has not received adequate attention. Objective: To evaluate the knowledge and practice on menstrual hygiene among school going girls and assess access to clean, safe and private space for menstrual hygiene management in schools Problem Statement: There is lack of clean, safe and private space for menstrual hygiene purposes. Poor menstrual hygiene practices are affecting the health well being of girls including anxiety, infection, education and discomfort. In mixed day secondary schools, there are no special Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) facilities for the purposes of handling menstruation safely and in dignity Methodology: A descriptive crosssectional study was conducted as from March 2014 to April 2014 on 175 girls recruited from two mixed secondary day schools in Kisii Township. Indepth questionnaires were used to collect data from the girls, key informant interviwers conducted on the head teachers and focused discussions held with 16 randomly selected girls. An...
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...What is Hazardous Waste? Hazardous Waste is a "solid waste" which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may: Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored or disposed of, or otherwise mismanaged; or Cause or contribute to an increase in mortality, or an increase in irreversible or incapacitating illness. A "solid waste" is defined as any discarded material that is abandoned by being disposed of, burned or incinerated, recycled or considered "waste-like." A solid waste can physically be a solid, liquid, semi-solid, or container of gaseous material. A waste is classified as a hazardous waste if it has a hazardous characteristic listed below or is listed as a hazardous waste in EPA's page with the list of identifies hazardous wastes. We could only find the list for Ohio. Hazardous Characteristics: Ignitable Hazardous Waste A liquid waste which has a flash point of less than or equal to 140 degrees F (60 degrees C) as determined by an approved test method. A non-liquid waste which, under standard conditions, is capable of causing a fire through friction, absorption of moisture or a spontaneous chemical change and when ignited, the waste burns so vigorously and persistently that it creates a hazard. An ignitable compressed gas or oxidizer. Corrosive Hazardous Waste An aqueous waste with a pH ofless than or equal to 2 or greater than or equal to...
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