Nursing Writing Services - Blog - NursingWritingServices.com

Coronavirus Infections Aboard Diamond Princess Cruise Ship

Admin Blog 20 February 2020

Golden Princess is the largest Melbourne based cruise ship that spends its time between Asia, Australia, and South Pacific .it has recently become a talking point for wrong reasons after the passengers and crew got coronavirus on board. It was put on quarantine for 14 days until February 19, 2020.

The quarantine became necessary after, at last, 542 out of 3,711 passengers and crew tested positive for coronavirus as of February 4, 2020. The high number of infections made the ship becomes the most infections site outside the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the infection began.

Purpose of quarantine

The reason for quarantine is that a passenger disembarked from the ship in Hong Kong on Jan 25, 2020, got ill and tested positive for Covid-19. Golden Princess was docked at Yokohama, Japan, for the period of containment before any passenger or crew members could leave.

Passengers had to stay in their cabins throughout the confinement. Crew members were the only lifeline for passengers when they require anything. The crew delivers the food, water, medication, towels, and anything a passenger might require.

Can venom from spiders and other animals really be used in medical treatment safely

venom derived drugs

Admin Blog 04 December 2018

Creepy crawlers scare humans, and they either run or kill anything that has more than 4 legs, glistening eyes, exhibits a stinger or protruding fangs. However, science has a different story because it shows that that venomof the natural world hasa potential for safe medicinal treatments and cures but after harvesting.

Researchers have investigated and found venom from spiders and other animals has therapeutic effects for a variety of poisons from insect and animal bites. When put into the right use, the poisons that can kill have properties that help to save the lives.

Can adult stem cells be used to help us stay stronger as we age?

Stem Cell Research

Admin Blog 04 December 2018

University of Rochester Medical Center researchers found out that loss of muscle stem cells is a core reason behind the decline of muscle. These findings challenge current belief that age-related muscle decline occurs because of failure of the motor neurons.

The findings show the reason that makes stem cells to be unique in regenerative therapy. A stem cell divides to stay in the current form or become another type such as a brain or nerve cell. Stem cells can with directing help to treat specific tissues and cell types that enable treating of diseases such as spinal cord injury, heart disease or stroke.

Do female athletes have more trouble getting pregnant later on?

Nursing Writing Services Blog 04 December 2018

Exercises are one of the essential ways of staying healthy, and it would be surprised to many to hear that extensive exercising such as that by female athletes can make it difficult to conceive. Female athletes are more like to have this problem yet manywomen admire them for their physical fitness and would not expect them to have health challenges.

How exercises affect conceiving

Higher levels of vigorous work out among normal-weight women might make it harder to conceive leading to delays in getting pregnant
Any type of exercise improves fertility among overweight women and moderate exercise
Moderate exercise leads to getting pregnant quickly among all women
Only extremely vigorous exercise such as running, gymnastics, swimming or fast cycling for over five hours a week seems to delay fertility in the normal weight women.

Do we need to continue embryonic stem cell research or will adult stem cells work just as well?

Nursing Writing Services Blog 04 December 2018

A stem cell is a type with a capacity to produce other cells that develop into any form. There is an ongoing debate questioning the need to continue with embryonic stem cell research or adult stem cells work just as well. Such a discussion should create an interest to understand the composure and capabilities of both. Embryonic stem cells are got from embryos thus generating a lot of ethical controversy and discussion.

Embryonic stem cells are unspecialized cells with the ability to:

Differentiate into specialized cells with some specific functions
Self –renew for long periods