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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
A Review Of Geriatric Communication, Morgan E. Ragsdale
A Review Of Geriatric Communication, Morgan E. Ragsdale
BU Well
Communication errors are rampant in our society and no population is exempt from this problem. This article takes a closer look at communication accommodation theories, specifically under and overaccommodation. These are two predominant communication errors that healthcare workers and geriatric patients both experience while working together.
Pharmacy For The Future: A Student’S Perspective On Pediatric Pharmacy, Madelyn Mays
Pharmacy For The Future: A Student’S Perspective On Pediatric Pharmacy, Madelyn Mays
BU Well
Children make up a special patient population which requires careful attention and precision. Healthcare professionals should be well equipped with the knowledge and tools to properly care for this delicate group. This article addresses a pharmacy student’s perspective on pediatric concentration within the field. Pediatric pharmacists possess the power of specialized care and effective communication which can potentially save children’s lives. Children are the future, and it is crucial that pharmacists help protect the destiny of that future.
Emotional Outlet Malls: Exploring Retail Therapy, Courtney Irwin
Emotional Outlet Malls: Exploring Retail Therapy, Courtney Irwin
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People turn to shopping as an emotional outlet. This article focuses on the concept of retail therapy highlighting the personal benefits, possible issues, and research development surrounding the topic. Negative connotations regarding retail therapy exist, and today, scholars are reexamining retail therapy as a distress-motivated act of consumption from a psychological and emotional perspective. A variety of perspectives can be used to analyze shopping therapy as a face-to-face transaction, an online experience, and a simulated experience in order to explain the emotional component related to shopping.
Prescribing Placebos, Kelsey Cupp
Prescribing Placebos, Kelsey Cupp
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The use of placebos in medicine is an area of ethical questioning, but we often do not consider the effect of placebos on daily life. One’s preconceptions on the outcomes of exercise physically affect health. Studies show being aware of the advantages of exercise is beneficial to aspects of health such as blood pressure, blood glucose levels, and depression. This article analyzes how the placebo effect applies to exercise and how it can be taken advantage of to improve health outcomes.
A Shocking Solution: Electroconvulsive Therapy And Its Effects On Depression And Other Mental Illnesses, Victoria Cook
A Shocking Solution: Electroconvulsive Therapy And Its Effects On Depression And Other Mental Illnesses, Victoria Cook
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Mental illness and its treatments continue to be demanding topics requiring the attention of the healthcare community. While pharmaceutical treatments increase in popularity, many people remain unaware of the non-pharmacological options available. One of the available unconventional treatment methods includes electroconvulsive shock therapy, a technique that utilizes bouts of electricity to stimulate anti-depressive behaviors. Although its methods have been disputed for a long time, electroconvulsive shock therapy is a long-standing and effective treatment for depression. Electroconvulsive shock therapy has a dense history which has led to the stigmatization of it as a treatment, and it has credible downsides. Electroconvulsive shock …
How Saving The Cookies For Santa Could Save Our Children, Grace M. Conroy
How Saving The Cookies For Santa Could Save Our Children, Grace M. Conroy
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Environmental factors and high sugar lunches represent a few proposed causes of the childhood obesity epidemic. Consequences of this epidemic are not limited to physical illnesses in children, but also psychological ones. The solution to this issue is more complex than a low carbohydrate diet or increased physical activity. Children need to be raised in an environment which fosters healthy lifestyle habits year-round.
Last Year's Virus, This Year's Cancer Treatment, Olivia Collins
Last Year's Virus, This Year's Cancer Treatment, Olivia Collins
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For hundreds of years, cancer has stumped medical professionals across the world as a cure evaded them. Now, a new approach to battling cancer has entered the arena: viruses. The concept of using one deadly disease to cure another has elevated cancer research to an entirely new level, with some promising results. This article examines recent research regarding the use of a modified measles virus in improving cancer outcomes.
Low Carb Low Down: Facts About The Fad, Chris Bollinger
Low Carb Low Down: Facts About The Fad, Chris Bollinger
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The low carb diet is one of the most popular diets in nutrition. However, different sources will provide varying strategies for achieving a carb diet. The parameters of a typical low carb diet, the positive and negative side effects of the diet, and its practicality should be understood before one begins this diet.
Letter From The Editor, Skyler Walker
Masthead, Skyler Walker
Volume 4, Full Contents
Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research
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Allopathic Medicine’S Influence On Indigenous Peoples In The Kumaon Region Of India, Eliana M. Blum
Allopathic Medicine’S Influence On Indigenous Peoples In The Kumaon Region Of India, Eliana M. Blum
Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research
This paper focuses on the use of western medicine in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India. The goal of this research is to understand which healing practices are preferable in rural villages. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 53 participants, including two spiritual healers, two doctors, and one pharmacist. Results indicate that allopathic medicine, otherwise known as modern medicine or western medicine, has become the go-to remedy for even the most remote people in India. Nearly all participants use allopathic medicine, but less than half of the participants experiment with other forms of healing, such as Ayurveda, homeopathy, meditation, and yoga. …
A Community's Collective Courage: A Local Food Cooperative's Impact On Food Insecurity, Community And Economic Development, And Local Food Systems, Tabitha C. Barbour
A Community's Collective Courage: A Local Food Cooperative's Impact On Food Insecurity, Community And Economic Development, And Local Food Systems, Tabitha C. Barbour
Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research
According to the USDA’s “Food Security Status of U.S. Households” in 2014, 48.1 million people live in food insecure households. In Indiana, more than 1 million people suffer from food insecurity with rates as high as 19.2% of Marion County’s population according to the Map the Meal Gap 2014 report. The Community Controlled Food Initiative (CCFI) is a local food cooperative operated by the Kheprw Institute and neighborhood residents in the Mid-North Indianapolis Community. The cooperative formed to address food insecurity in August 2015 in response to the closing on the local Double 8 Foods grocery stores. CCFI hosts a …
Volume 4 Table Of Contents
Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research
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