Psychiatric disorders have multifaceted origins, involving a combination of genetic and environmental factors that contribute significantly to their development. In recent times, researchers have emphasized the role of epigenetic mechanisms as the underlying molecular foundation...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2023/v20i2391
Vitamin D has been reported in the scientific press as a crucial factor that has significant health benefits in the prevention and treatment of countless chronic illnesses, including mental health. Psychiatric illnesses are in their own right a complex constellation of factors th...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2023/v35i44964
Roughly over 700 million individuals suffer from a mental illness globally. In the United States alone, over 45 million individuals are afflicted with a mental disorder at any given point in their lives. It is because of this that new methods of current therapies should be consi...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2023/v24i1931
The age of technology and smart devices has paved the way for a current and encouraging method to address mental healthcare that benefits from global connectivity: telehealth. According to the American Telemedicine Association, telehealth or telemedicine is defined as the usage o...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2022/v18i2345
The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS) is a rare neurological and psychiatric condition, represented as the appearance of disorienting perceptual disorder with occasional episodes of bizarre visual illusions and spatial distortions. It was first introduced by John Todd in 1955,...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2022/v18i1344
The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant physical and mental tension among frontline workers globally. Poor working conditions, lack of protective personal equipment (PPE), short-staffed departments, medication shortage, depleted hospital beds, and ventilators hav...
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Research Article10.9734/indj/2022/v18i1343
In the United States, skin cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed. The three types of skin cancer are basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. Of those, basal and squamous cell carcinomas are the most diagnosed skin cancer types. Both of which are curable,...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2018/v8i230096
HIV/AIDS is one of the global health issues of great proportions. The virus has reached pandemic volumes affecting the lives of many people throughout the world. The objective of this paper is to address pertinent factors about HIV/AIDS including a history of the disease, managem...
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Research Article10.9734/ISRR/2018/45690
It is estimated that over 80% of those enrolled in medical schools, nursing school, and the allied health programs are Whites, while African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans comprise about 7% each. The reason for these devastating numbers is the lack of encouragement in...
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Research Article10.9734/AJMAH/2018/45586
Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs. It is transmitted from person to person via droplets from the throat and lungs of the infected person to the uninfected. Its incidence appears to b...
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Research Article10.9734/AJMAH/2018/45580
Pediatric cataracts are one of the most common causes of visual impairment in children. A cataract is due to cloudiness in the crystalline lens. The lens is the part of the eye that helps focus light images onto the retina. The retina translates the information to nerve fibers an...
Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a rare inherited skeletal muscle disorder related to general anaesthesia. It is primarily caused by a mutation in the RYR1 gene. The RYR1 gene codes for the ryanodine receptor 1, which is responsible for calcium release in skeletal muscle. An episod...
It is very important to recognise trends in HIV/AIDS in specific areas such as Asia because it is vital to understanding the effectiveness of current approaches towards diagnosis and treatment. It is also very important to understand the risk factors that significantly predispose...
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Research Article10.9734/AJMAH/2018/44090
Disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi has continued to incrementally spread Lyme disease throughout the United States and has become the concern of the general population’s health. Ixodes ticks infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, that come in contact with any area of the human body,...
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Research Article10.9734/jamps/2019/v20i130101