The Story of Medicine - From Early Healing to the Miracles of Modern Medicine

MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is an infection caused by the microbe Staphylococcus aureus “staph”.

What makes MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) different from a regular staph infection is that a staph infection is usually treated with Methicillin, and particular strains of staph have built up a resistance against that drug. Therefore, treatment with Methicillin (an antibiotic) does not cure the infection. Thus, the staph infection is given the title of MRSA.

Now one of the known super-bugs of our time, MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) has claimed approximately 20,000 lives in the United States alone (2012 data).

Due to the resistance that MRSA has to the strong antibiotic Methicillin, patients diagnosed with MRSA are almost two times as likely to die compared to people with a regular staph infection.

A recent estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released information estimating that nearly 370,000 hospitalizations have been attributed to MRSA cases here in the United States, in 2012 alone.

Due to the alarming spread of MRSA infections here in the United States, the healthcare industry has estimated that it costs around 4.5 billion to treat hospitalizations associated with MRSA.

The Wright Brothers : The First Airplane Invented (A Short Biography for Children)
The Wright Brothers ; Orville and Wilbur Wright were two brothers who are credited with inventing the first airplane.

Best Children's Biographies : Write a biography for kids by thinking about what a child would enjoy learning about a person, covering important achievements, creating an outline and getting help from a child reader.

Alienated young Everyman, Guy Andrews, is tired of spending his life on his back crying uncle, and craves change. Change arrives in the form of a beguiling young woman who lures him into a world of gorgeous spies and ruthless assassins. Never knowing whom he can trust, Guy must exorcise 'the slacker within' and rely on his wits and will to unravel the mystery of his own past, before he or someone he loves becomes its next victim. His mission will require wits and courage he's not sure he possesses-and the strength to say uncle no more.

Medical Gross and Developmental Anatomy is a course every medical student dreads. As one future physician told the author, Steve Giegerich, passing the notoriously difficult course is "paying your dues for medicine. It's the bridge you have to cross if you want to become a doctor."

More students leave medical school during this course than any other. Now Body of Knowledge puts readers in the classroom as potential doctors come face-to-face with their first human cadaver and dissects the factors that determine whether they succeed or fail.

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Asylums were first established to care for the unfortunates of society. It was only later they acquired a negative image. In Kentucky?s First Asylum, author Alma Wynelle Deese explores this issue by dissecting the inner workings of the Eastern Kentucky Asylum, Kentucky?s first asylum and the second state-supported asylum to be established in the United States. She describes the people who were involved in the creation and maintenance of a medical school, law department, and lunatic asylum in Lexington, Kentucky.

Using historical data, Deese presents a fictionalized narrative to explore this institution?s history from 1817 to the 1990s?including a chapter dedicated to 1906, a pivotal year for Eastern Kentucky Asylum. That year, four employees were charged in the murder of a patient, and this incident set the stage for the past and present history of this facility.

Kentucky?s First Asylum provides a historical understanding of one early asylum that became a state hospital and serves to give broader context for the understanding of the current mental health system. It provides a platform to better comprehend the problems and processes of American psychiatric care.

Motivated by their patriotism, the Richmond Ladies were willing to make the necessary sacrifices for the Southern cause. Many sent their husbands and sons to fight for the glory of the South. However, as the war progressed, their sacrifices became harder and harder to bear. They faced shortages of food, struggled to find adequate housing, and, in some cases, endured the ultimate price of losing husbands, sons, and close relatives. As Richmond was evacuated, they braced themselves for military occupation and reconstruction. With the loss of their slaves, wealth, social standing, and homes, they entered into a new world order with few familiar aspects. Through their diaries and recollections, their story of courage and commitment to survive in an ever changing world is told.

?Neal Wixson selected detailed, poignant and sentimental excerpts from some of the most important accounts of Richmond during the Civil War which succeeds in capturing much of the flavor of the Confederate capital as seen through women?s eyes.?
Michael B. Chesson, Professor of History, The American College of History and Legal Studies and author of several books including Richmond after the War 1865-1890

?A vivid account of wartime Richmond as told by women who endured its physical and emotional hardships.?
Carol Sheriff , Professor of History, College of William & Mary and author of The Artificial River and of co-author of A People at War

?By giving voice to the ladies who lived in Richmond during the Civil War, Neal Wixson offers a chorus of their faith and perseverance in enduring deprivations and sacrifice.?
Will Molineux, editor of A Young Virginia Boatman Navigates the Civil War