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Considerations in Government Supported Stem Cell Research

heal without scarring (Muneoka 56; Pilcher 42). Unfortunately, embryonic stem cell research is an ethical quagmire. Stem cell ...

Laws and Regulations for CAM

individuals in the treatment of a diversity of medical problems. Willow trees are the natural source of aspirin. Medicinal plant...

Massage as a Complimentary Medicine

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

The ‘Biology’ of Cloning: Its Importance and Potential Impacts

Today, plant research scientists accomplish cloning through the manipulation of a limited number of vectors. The Ti plasmid (a pl...

Death and Brain Death Criteria

In five pages this paper examines death and what constitutes brain death as considered by John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock in Ethic...

Medical Profession and Handling Errors

In five pages John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock's Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine is used in a consideration of how a medical prof...

Is Walking Beneficial for Human Health?

day. Rather than scheduling in daily walks, they try to increase their ordinary walking in the course of doing their daily tasks. ...

Nuclear Medicine: Past, Present, and Future

involves the use of radioactive isotopes to diagnose and treat disease. In more advanced technology radioactive materials are int...

Nuclear Medicine: Past, Present, and Future

the use of radioactive isotopes to diagnose and treat disease. Various types of cancer, for example, are being treated quite succ...

Complimentary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine (CAM)

record in terms of affecting improved health and welfare, Complimentary Alternative Medicine seeks an integration of mainstream me...

Using Bar Coding to Reduce Errors in Medicine Administration

technology systems" (Anderson and Wittwer, 2004, p. 5). Anderson and Wittwer describe the evolution of the system St. Marys uses,...

Love Medicine Chapter Summaries

(1934), pages 40-56. The story shifts to when Grandma is just 14. Her maiden name was Marie Lazarre. She is a headstrong girl, wit...

Humor Therapy

decreases blood pressure as well as reducing the level of stress hormones while increasing muscle flexion and boosting the immune ...

Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia.

various gods (Demand, 2000). The greatest contribution to the development of true civilization, however, occurred around 3100 BCE,...

Complimentary Alternative Medicine (CAM): Definition and Factors Influencing Acceptance

As positive as some CAMs are in promoting health, the general public has been somewhat reluctant to accept these...

“Economic Implications of Evidence-Based Prescribing for Hypertension: Can Better Care Cost Less?”

the least. Health care has changed dramatically in the past couple of decades. Numerous factors interplay in that change. One o...

Nigeria - Health

this country (Hargreaves, 2002). Tuberculosis is another one (Hargreaves, 2002). It has to do with a lack of inoculations against ...

Alternative Medical Approaches

use these techniques only in response to certain ailments, such as back or neck pain (Steiner 20). However, another difference is ...

Managing Finances and Ethics

family must earn money and make financial decisions but poor decisions can lead families into bankruptcy and homelessness. Is home...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

Modern Medicine and Religious Traditions of the East

were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...

Medicine from Ancient China

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

Need and the Inventor’s Spirit

and which will continue to grow in their impact. Additional effects of fossil fuel dependence are even more straightforward. The...

Medicinal Marijuana

dangerous or physically addictive. Of course, there is some debate about the safety of marijuana. Curtis claims that the FDA will...

Mind-Body Medicine

her last child moved out of the family home. Anti-depressants alleviated her condition somewhat, but made her feel groggy and deta...

Patient Satisfaction As An Indication of Clinical Quality

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

Developments in Medicine during the latter part of the Nineteenth Century

that it did was that it would give physicians a direction in which to focus as they looked for the etiology of various illnesses (...

Quantum Healing: By Deepak Chopra

has written; there are even video and audio cassettes/DVDs explaining his approach to healing. As with his other publications, Qua...

Narrative in Love Medicine and Monkey Beach

of the Rigger Bar" (Erdrich 1). From this moment her short story continues until she is alone and wandering in heavy falling sno...