Provincial Oathtaking Schedule November 2009 NLE Passers

The Professional Regulation Commission – Board of Nursing has announced the partial oathtaking schedule in various provinces of the Philippines. Keep checking http://nursingcrib.com for more updates.

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Levodopa Drug Study

Dopaminergic Drugs Levodopa, carbidopa, amantadine, bromocriptine, pergolide, pramipexole, ropinirole, selegiline, entacapone, and tolcapone increase dopamine concentrations in the brain and exert dopaminergic activity, directly or indirectly. Levodopa is the mainstay of drug therapy for idiopathic parkinsonism. Carbidopa is used only in conjunction with levodopa. The other drugs are used as adjunctive agents, usually with levodopa.

Levodopa (Larodopa, Dopar) is the most effective drug available for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. It relieves all major symptoms, especially bradykinesia and rigidity. Although

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Herpes Zoster (Shingles)

• Herpes Zoster also known as Shingles is an acute viral infection of the sensory nerve caused by a variety of chickenpox virus.
• It is an inflammatory skin condition in which the varicella zoster virus produces a painful vesicular eruption along the nerve tracks leading from one or more dorsal root ganglia.
• After a primary chickenpox infection, the virus persists in a dormant state in the dorsal ganglia. The virus may then

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Cataract

• Cataract is a clouding, or opacity of the lens that leads to blurring of vision and eventual loss of sight. The opacity of the lens is caused by chemical changes in the protein of the lens because of slow degenarative changes of age, injury, poison or intraocular infection.
• Cataracts occur so often in the aged. At 80 years of age, about 85% of all people have some clouding of the

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