John Blake and Cole Dominguez, executives at Sycamore Pharmaceuticals, are in an extremely difficult position with no easy options. The popular drug Osteoporin produced by Sycamore Pharmaceuticals was aggressively marketed for use in other ailments such as Crohn’s disease and lupus prior to scientific studies regarding their efficacy. Blake and...

Introduction The medical community has increasingly been implementing medicinal marijuana into its practices for pain relief and therapy. Marijuana is made up of sixty cannabinoids, two of which have been seen to aid in medicine. These two cannabinoids are delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (Vargo Cavalet, 2016). Both of these...

In terms of pathophysiology, antibiotic resistance (AR) occurs when a microorganism develops a genetic mutation that enables the organism to withstand antimicrobial agents; this resistance can be exchanged between bacteria thereby disseminating this feature and extending its influence (Barie, 2012). When a microorganism carries more than one resistance gene –...

The field of medicine has been a major interest to me since I was relatively young and when it came to choosing a major, the choice of pursuing nursing came to me naturally. I find the thought of taking care of others very intriguing and embarking on this career path...

The coneflower is a large wildflower or garden perennial and can range from one foot to five feet tall depending on the species or sub-species (Explore Cornell, 2006). They have long, rigid, leaved stems that extend to a bare stems topped with a spiny cone of seeds surrounded by rays...