A 44-year-old banker comes to your office for evaluation of a pulsating headache over the left temporal region, and he rates the pain as an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10. The pain has been constant for the past several hours and is accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light. He has had frequent head- aches for many years but not as severe, and they are usually relieved by over-the-counter medicines. He is unclear as to a precipitating event but notes that he has had visual disturbances before each headache and he has been under a lot of stress in his job. Based on this description, what is the most likely diagnosis of this type of headache?

Metastatic calcification occurs in normal tissues as the result of increased serum calcium levels (hypercalcemia). Anything that increases the serum calcium level can lead to calcification in inappropriate places such as the lung, renal tubules, and blood vessels. What are the major causes of hypercalcemia?

Which immunoglobulin is responsible for the hypersensitivity reaction?

A mother is feeling inside her baby’s diaper bag to find her car keys. There are a number of other items in the bag other than the keys. Which of the following terms best describes one’s ability to sense of shape and size of an object in the absence of visualization?

The nurse on an oncology floor has just admitted a patient with metastatic cancer. The patient asks how cancer moves from one place in the body to another. What would the nurse answer?

Some people are so sensitive to certain antigens that they react within minutes by developing itching, hives, and skin erythema, followed shortly thereafter by bronchospasm and respiratory distress. What is this commonly known as?

The Krebs cycle provides a common pathway for the metabolism of nutrients by the body. The Krebs cycle forms two pyruvate molecules. Each pyruvate molecule formed in the cytoplasm from one molecule of glucose yield another molecule of what?

Some people have more natural rights than others.

According to Kant if a murderer inquires you where is your friend hiding, you should not lie to the murderer

Virtue-based ethics suggests that it is probably impossible to provide universal moral principles that can tell us what we should do in every situation; morality is just too complicated for such a cookie-cutter approach.