Cytogenetics plays an important role in understanding chromosomal and genetic disorders. Understanding the basic cytogenetic abnormalities can give us an insight in its use in the diagnosis of haematological diseases.
MAR 17, 2021 | CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
About 1 to 5% of healthy adults have upper respiratory tract colonization. Nasopharyngeal colonization with M. catarrhalis is common throughout infancy, may be increased during winter months, and is a risk factor for acute otitis media; early colonization is a risk factor for recurrent otitis media.
MAR 15, 2021 | CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
Diabetic ketoacidosis or DKA is caused by an absence or inadequate amount of insulin. This is a serious complication of diabetes that occurs when the body produces high levels of blood acids called ketones. Symptoms include excessive thirst, frequent urination, nausea, acute abdominal pain, weakness, a fruity-scented breath, and confusion.
NOV 10, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
According to the world health organization (WHO) mental health can be defined as a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make contribution to his or her community.
NOV 2, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Neurocysticercosis is a systematic illness caused by the dissemination of the larval form of the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium. Encystment of larvae can occur in almost any tissue.
OCT 21, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Careless handling of patient information in daily medical practice can result in Health Professions Council of South Africa sanction, breach of privacy lawsuits and, in extreme cases, serious monetary penalty or even imprisonment.
SEPT 21, 2020 | CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
With the high mortality rate associated with invasive fungal infections, methods for timely detection and diagnosis are necessary for appropriate and effective treatment.
AUG 26, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
The evidence-based paradigm has changed and evolved medical practice. Phlebotomy, which dates back to the age of ancient Greece...
JUN 22, 2020 | CLINICAL: 3 POINTS
In the medical field, we are familiar with the usual colour of blood being either bright red or dark red. The bright red is oxygenated blood, coming back from the heart, known as arterial blood.
JUN 12, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) represent a group of compounds with many genotoxic carcinogens. Carcinogens are substances that can cause cancer.
JUN 5, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in considerable morbidity
and mortality worldwide since December 2019.
MAY 18, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes severe community and nosocomial outbreaks.
MAY 18, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Personal protective equipment (PPE), including surgical masks and N95 respirators, is crucially important to the safety of both patients and medical personnel, particularly in the event of infectious pandemics.
MAY 18, 2020 | CLINICAL: 3 POINTS
Acquired B phenotype is part of a rare group of ABO discrepancies (Harmening, 2012: 138). In order to understand the acquired B phenomenon, one has to first understand what is meant with an ABO discrepancy.
MAY 8, 2020 | CLINICAL: 3 POINTS
To date, literature on emotional intelligence (EI) in medical laboratory science is scarce because some researchers have considered laboratory staff as being as automated as the robotic instruments they work with.
JUL 9, 2020 | CLINICAL: 3 POINTS
A pharmaceutical drug, also called a medication, is a chemical substance used to treat, prevent or diagnose disease or promote well-being.
MAY 7, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
People with intellectual disability (ID) are defined as a group by their need for lifelong support. For the most part, it falls to family caregivers to provide this support.
MAR 17, 2021 | ETHICS: 3 POINTS
A recent focus of the global discourse on the health workforce has been on its quality, including the existence of codes of ethics.
MAR 17, 2021 | ETHICS: 1 POINTS
Blood transfusions save countless lives around the world, with an estimated 85 million units of red blood cells transfused each year.
MAR 5, 2021 | ETHICS: 2 POINTS
Ethical behaviour is core to the practice of sleep medicine. Sleep medicine raises questions in three often distinguished subcategories of ethics - normative ethics (how should we behave?)...
MAR 5, 2021 | ETHICS: 2 POINTS
An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and its caused coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been reported in China since December 2019.
MAR 5, 2021 | ETHICS: 3 POINTS
For years, conflicts over medical rationing have preoccupied participants in health care debates.
MAY 14, 2020 | ETHICS: 3 POINTS
Transplantation ethics is a philosophy that incorporates systematizing, defending, and advocating concepts of right and wrong conduct related to organ donation.
MAY 14, 2020 | ETHICS: 3 POINTS
Cell‑based therapeutics, such as marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, are a standard of care for certain malignancies.
MAY 14, 2020 | ETHICS: 3 POINTS
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