Essays on Epidemiology

Modern day medical practice encounters many challenges. Among them one of the most crucial one faced day to day is development of resistance in bacteria especially gram negative bacteria towards beta lactam antibiotics due to presence of beta lactamases enzyme, caused by extensive irrational usage...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has been selected as the topic of this essay. First of all, a general description of diabetes mellitus is presented. The etiology and epidemiology of T2DM and its complications were specifically addressed. Subsequently, the major determinants of T2DM and analyses...

While the media frenzy surrounding the so called swine flu pandemic is causing many people to panic, we have much more serious problems to worry about such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Despite the fact that these diseases are killing people in much larger...

Pulmonary tuberculosis is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality, with approximately a third of the world’s population latently infected. This poses a serious health threat because about 10% of the infected individuals develop active disease. Pulmonary tuberculosis refers to any bacteriologically confirmed or clinically...

There is an epidemic in our country killing thousands of people a year, (National Institute on Drug Abuse, March, 2018). It is not a contagious disease, virus, or infection, but a class of addicting deadly drugs. Whether someone first acquired these medications after a minor...

In the 1970s, the Indian government initiated policies to encourage foreign companies to invest in local industry. Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) was asked to build a plant for the manufacture of Sevin, a pesticide commonly used throughout Asia. The company built the plant in Bhopal...

In 1865 Thomas Hodgkin was immortalized by his peer, Samuel Wilks, in the annals of medical literature through the eponymous use of the term ‘Hodgkin’s disease’. At that time there is more heterogeneous group of neoplastic lymph node enlargement which is non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). A...