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Drug addiction in the United States
Get PDFIt is almost impossible at the present time to make an exact count of the persons addicted to narcotics in the United StAtes, or even in one of our large cities because of the social and legal factors tending to make addiction a secret practice. It is believed, however that it is possible by utilizing all of the information now available to delimit the number by certain maximum and minimum figures. With this object in view, a number of the more important narcotic surveys made in recent years were analyzed; also the reports made by agents of the Federal Bureau of Internal Revenue and other persons in the narcotic clinics conducted in different parts of the country; statistics in dose of addiction, world production of narcotics and the quantities imported into this country were compiled and studied. Numerous Physicians in different parts of the country were interviewed in person to ascertain the number of addicts they were treating in the course of their practice. The results of these analyses can be found within this paper
Tuberculosis sanatoria in the U.S.
Get PDFAccording to the 8th edition of the American Medical Directory for the 1923, there were 577 tuberculosis sanatoria in the United States. New York State ranks first with 75 and Oregon is one of the lowest with only three, which are as follows: Portland Open Air Sanatorium (Milwaukee), Pierce Sanitorium (Portland), Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital (Salem).
Chiropractic and its relation to public health
Get PDFIn treating the subject, the writer will not attempt to stress all of the minor faults and shortcomings of the chiropractic because, first, they are so many in member that the length of this paper will not permit of any long drawn out discussion and, second, because it will not be necessary to go into minor details as any open minded reader will be forced to admit these faults. I will merely make the statement that they are injurious to public health and prove the fact by using only one or two examples.
Mechanisms of polydispersity and client-induced co-aggregation of small heat shock proteins
Get PDFWork presented in this dissertation describe mechanisms of oligomeric polydispersity and client-binding by various small heat shock proteins (alpha-crystallins, HSP16.5) using single particle EM approaches (CryoEM, NS-EM)
Inequities in chronic stress exposure at the intersection of race, gender, and sexual identity in a nationally representative sample of US adults
Get PDFSocial inequity rooted in systemic oppression is robustly associated with mental and physical health; chronic stress is highlighted as a key mechanism. Growing evidence supports intersectionality theory, that interlocking systems of oppression (e.g., racism, sexism, heterosexism) may contribute to greater exposure to stressors for those with multiple marginalized identities. Limited research examining the association between sexual identity alone and C-reactive protein (CRP) – an upstream biological marker of chronic stress exposure – has yielded mixed results. The purpose of this project is to examine whether race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual identity interact to produce unequal levels of CRP
Bridging the gap between preclinical models and clinical trials using a novel Kras- and Myc-driven mouse model of pancreatic cancer and 3D-bioprinting
Get PDFPancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAc) ranks among the top three most aggressive cancers in the United States and is projected to increase in incidence over the next few years. Standard-of-care (SoC) treatment for PDAc consists of a cocktail of harsh chemotherapies, which have improved overall survival by only a few percentage points—to a 5-year survival rate of 13%. This dismal prognosis is a result of its primarily late-stage diagnosis and lack of durable response to treatment, the latter of which is partially due to PDAc’s desmoplastic and immunosuppressive microenvironment. This dissertation will demonstrate the potential of both the novel KMCERT2 mouse model and 3D-bioprinting to improve our understanding of pancreatic cancer progression and treatment response, ultimately leading to more effective therapies for patients
Problems among county school children causing retardation in school
Get PDFIn writing for this paper I have taken cases of children who have had difficulty in school or who have some physical handicap which seems to be a stumbling block for them. I have tried to give the results which have been obtained or the results which we hope to attain with these children. Some of the help has seemed to prove helpful or worthwhile with others the results are not so promising
History of medicine and development in laboratory sciences
Get PDFThe subject which I have chosen for my thesis is one which covers a vast field of knowledge in order to have a glimpse of this great work, which will be little more than an outline, in this short paper, we will go back to the very beginning of medicine