Monthly Archive: December 2020
Healthful Vitality | 04/12/2019 | By Sarah Schulze, BSN, MSN | My Experience with Specialty Higher Education in Nursing My parents have pictures of me using a stethoscope on stuffed animals at age two...
Healthful Vitality | 04/12/2019 | By Dr Subarna Ghosh | Inflammatory Bowel Disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an umbrella term that encompasses two diseases of the digestive system, namely ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s...
Healthful Vitality | 08/24/2019 | By Sarah Schulze, MSN, APRN, CPNP | Vaccine Hesitancy, a Modern Problem The development of vaccines has been one of the most impactful events affecting public health in human...
Healthful Vitality | 08/22/2019 | By Sarah Schulze, MSN, APRN, CPNP | Early Introduction of Peanuts to Reduce Occurrence of Allergies One of the most difficult childhood issues for parents to navigate is food...
Healthful Vitality | 04/16/2019 | By Dr Anand Lakhkar, MD, PhD | Normal Saline or Balanced Crystalloids? An Update Crystalloid solutions are widely used for fluid therapy for correcting fluid and electrolyte balance. A...
Healthful Vitality | 04/07/2019 | By Dr. Sharoon David | Anesthesia-Induced Neurotoxicity in Pediatric Patients Until the 1980s, it was considered a common practice to perform surgeries on paralyzed or awake infants and children...
Healthful Vitality | 04/11/2019 | By Dr. Sharoon David | Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a retinal pathology that affects the macula lutea, an oval-shaped pigmented area located close to...
Healthful Vitality | 04/12/2019 | By Dr. Faiq Shaikh, MD | Multiple Myeloma and Nephropathy (Myeloma Kidney) Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer of plasma cells, which are a type of blood cells responsible...
Healthful Vitality | 04/12/2019 | By Dr Subarna Ghosh | Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Overview Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neuro-developmental (brain development) disorder that adversely affects a person’s social, behavioral, and communicative...
Healthful Vitality | 04/12/2019 | By Dr. Thandiwe Jere | Understanding the Lupus Challenge in Low Resource Settings Autoimmune diseases remain a conundrum that is yet to be fully understood, with an estimated 151...
Healthful Vitality | 04/11/2019 | By Dr. Subarna Ghosh | Alzheimer’s Disease: A Growing Global Health Concern Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a brain disorder of an irreversible nature, which is characterized by progressive deterioration...
Healthful Vitality | 04/12/2019 | By Sarah Schulze, BSN, MSN | ADHD and Sleep Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder is disorder affecting typical neurodevelopment in children, with approximately 10% of children ages 6 to...
Healthful Vitality | 12/09/2020 | By Dr. Sharoon David | Slowing Down the Spread of COVID-19 In December 2019, a previously unknown virus was identified as a cause of a cluster of cases of severe pneumonia...
Healthful Vitality | 12/09/2020 | By Dr Anand Lakhkar, MD, PhD | Career Options for Physicians and Scientists Most of the physicians pursue a career in clinical practice either in private practice or in an...