In one or the other way life on earth depends on pigments like how plants prepare their own food with chlorophyll and oxygen carried in the body with hemoglobin (Britton, 1995). Pigments as coloring agents was used from prehistoric times, it was proven when pigments...
Since the 1930s there has been research involving natural alternative medicine. Here are some notable examples of physicians who came to note the power of natural medicine.Dr’s. Wilfred and Evan Shute. In 1933 Dr’s. Wilfred and Evan Shute were some of the first doctors to...
Cloning has been a controversial topic around the globe since before Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, and it has recently turned into a real possibility that seems considerably more attainable now than it was twenty years ago (National Human Genome Research Institute, n.d.)....
Stem cells are the undifferentiated biological cells that can develop too many different cell types of the body during early life and growth. To our body, the stem cells are like an internal repair system. A stem cell divides and each new cell can remain...
America is obsessed with drugs. Prescription Drug companies are legal drug dealers, while those marketing illegal recreational drug of a lesser degree like marijuana are persecuted. However, the true criminals are the pharmaceutical drug companies whose mal intentions do more harm than good- destroying our...
It is well known that drugs as cocaine, marihuana, heroin or any other drug have destructive consequences on addicts. It is often said by the opponents of legalizing drugs that it can lead to health problems since it is dangerous to the body especially the...
The War on Drugs is the attempt of preventing people from using substances that are considered bad for consumption. The American government has waged a war on drugs for several years. Since its declaration, the war on drugs has coasted several billions of dollars and...
“Transforming society by optimizing movement to improve the human experience.” (APTA). This is the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) vision for all members and Physical Therapist. As a student, in a doctorate of physical therapy (DPT) program, I want to reflect on how that vision...
The medical field has been known for its importance in society and the stresses associated with it. The Doctor of Medicine program is a post-graduate course that consists of 3 years of classroom education and 1 year of clinical clerkship before graduation. Medical students are...
In my country, Bangladesh, there is a stereotypical conception that if a student doesn’t accomplish his undergraduate degree from a renowned government academy, he is incompetent. But I always begged to differ and rather believed that if a person is genuinely meritorious and diligent, he...
The patient protection and affordable care act is a significant healthcare reforms act which has been developed to ensure that the quality of healthcare is affordable to majority of the United States citizens. The affordable care act has significant emphasis on the quality of care...
In this case, a client named Wong Kai Long who is a 56 years old taxi driver. He is living with wife and son in a public-house unit. He worked as a bus driver for 23 years and was being dismissed 1 year ago after...
Professor. Manandhar Glycolysis and Beriberi One of the important cofactors necessary for the activity of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex is thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP). TPP is derived from the vitamin thiamine, also called vitamin B 1. The function of TPP in the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex is...
Introduction Marijuana is often regarded as the introduction to more dangerous substances or referred to as the gateway drug. However, the drug does not have as harmful effects compared to more dangerous drugs such as cocaine. It is commonly used for recreational purposes by adolescents....
If I had to think back to a time when she taught me something it would be, self importance; self reliance. Not everyone is nice, not everyone will help you out. I learned that all from her and then some. I had just turned eighteen...
“Compassion in its fullest sense is not a standing apart from the one in need; it is a sharing in the pain and suffering of a need unfulfilled, an injury not healed, an injustice not rectified.” (Farley, 65) Compassion is an emotion that is felt...
Dealing with a death, both physically and emotionally, is one of our society’s greatest struggles. In our society, the ways in which people physically deal with dead bodies include harvesting the organs for science and disposing the bodies. While there is no single right way...
Cloning is the reproduction of organisms as an exact copy of an animal or possibly a human. There are both pros and cons to cloning. You can create a new social class but you can also eliminate diseases by cloning. Cloning is a long process...
Human cloning is one of the most revolutionary yet controversial topics in the world of genetic research. To clone, or create an organism with an exact genetic copy as that of an existing organism’s, not only provokes a plethora of ethical concerns but further surfaces...