Health Sciences

Background: Standing and sitting is a natural human posture. Working in a standing position on a regular basis can cause sore feet, swelling of the legs, varicose veins, general muscular fatigue, low back pain, stiffness in the neck and shoulders and other health problems. Aims and Objectives: To assess the prevalence, to identify the risk, to find out the association between the prevalence and risk with variables and to identify the deficit areas of knowledge in view to prepare a pamphlet for early detection & prevention of varicose veins.

Use of fire in forests in the state of Tocantins, especially in the dry season, initiates a series of respiratory diseases in adults and children with various levels of involvement that lead to hospital admission.

In this case female canine, Dachshund, at one year and eight months, which initially presented cough, then sudden bilateral blindness, emesis and dyspnea. Evolving to opisthotonos, nystagmus, convulsion, and soon in respiratory arrest and death. Microscopy of lesions found in the central nervous system, peri-bronchial lymph nodes and pulmonary alveoli revealed numerous yeasts. The lesions were associated with the presence of intralesional yeasts, compatible with Cryptococcus neoformans.

This philosophical essay aims to reflect on the problem of death in nursing education from Gadamerian philosophy. Nurses have an important role to patients’ needs in the process of death, and to their families who are often not prepared for the end. Although in their training process, these professionals are trained to perform complex procedures and handling devices, they are not prepared to deal with issues related to the end of life.

Introduction: Dysthanasia is the practice by which the life of an incurable patient is prolonged through artificial and disproportionate means. This concept is a field of discussion of the value of human life and death. The work in the ICU places the doctor in confrontation with choices and decision-making involving technical, ethical and moral aspects deeply imbricated to the technological incorporation in the health area. Objective: The objective of this study was to know how physicians at neonatal and pediatric ICUs mean distanasis.

Background: Dementia is a neurodegenerative process considered the primary characteristic in a group of diseases with similar qualities in which the elderly presents decreased global cognitive function, with impairment on daily activities, being Alzheimer’s disease (AD) the most common cause. Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate the dementia presence, nutritional status and associated demographic factors in elderly assisted in a Health Assistance Reference Centre in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

The present study was undertaken by the investigators to assess the knowledge of pregnant women regarding antenatal care in selected community, Ludhiana, Punjab.

The objective of the study was to analyze the Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology Perinatal Extension IIscore as a predictor of neonatal mortality, describing the clinical and epidemiological profile of neonates hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit at a cardiology reference institution in the Northern Regionin Brazil. Nine clinical variables were investigated by analyzing each patient's chart and were duly scored. The study score ranged from 0 to 162, and the higher the score, the higher was the severity of the newborn’s condition, considering the duration of hospital stay.

Background: Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common, chronic, metabolic disorder, in which glucose utilization is reduced, producing hyperglycemia. It is due to absolute or relative insulin deficiency, that leads increased blood glucose level in the body. Along with hyperglycemia, development of debilitating complications like retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy, cardiovascular diseases and cerebrovascular diseases also make it as a major public health concern in the world.

Epigenetics (Lifestyle) is a new field of biology that is exploring the effect of the environment on cellular behavior. The "environment" includes one's physical, social, and electromagnetic environment as well as beliefs, perceptions, lifestyle, habits, behaviors, and mind-body practices such as Pranic healing. With the science of epigenetics, we can begin to map out genes that keep us in a healthy state and eliminate those bad genes that have been plaguing humans over the course of time. There is real possibility to prevent and cure for certain cancers & other dreadful diseases.