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Understanding Sickle Cell Anemia

and intermittent episodes of vascular occlusion causing both acute and chronic pain. It is estimated that 70,000 Americans of diff...

Scientology and Its Impact on Actor Tom Cruise

its members. From this perspective it is easy to see that Scientology has more than likely had as negative of an impact on Tom Cr...

Television Violence and Its Detrimental Effects on Children

the words not to popular adventure theme songs but instead to mantras of Nazi and skinhead groups and become synonymous with horro...

How Potassium and Calcium Function in the Human Body

The writer discusses the various functions of calcium and potassium in the body and also how disruption of homeostasis in regards ...

Historical Impacts of the Disease Malaria

in World War II and those serving in the military in Vietnam. We have experienced this disease even more directly, however, right...

Book Review of Franklin Harold's The Way of the Cell:

organism in nature exists. While it is simple to say that the biological "riddle" of life, the understanding of cellular biology,...

Sickle Cell Disease, an Overview

This research paper offers a comprehensive overview of sickle cell disease (SCD). First of all, the writer describes the gene muta...

Comparing Solar Cells with Plant Cells

each material are different and diffuse between them, producing an "internal gradient in the electric field across the junction re...

Organ Transplant Policy: Australia

cell research. Federal legislation passed in December, 2002 placed significant boundaries upon how and when stem cells can be inc...

Falun Gong

falun, a spinning body of energy said to be located at the lower abdomen" (What is Falun Gong?, 2007). Followers of this disciplin...

Organ Transplants, Distributive Justice and the Allocation of Scarce Resources

billboard space, placed classified ads, appeared on talk radio and television shows to bring his situation into the public conscio...

The Kidneys and Renal Failure

"three important hormones: erythropoietin ... or EPO, which stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells; renin, which regul...

Media Issues

This paper pertains to three media issues. The first issue addressed is the manipulative aspect of ads, the second discusses the p...

Applying Utilitarianism to an Ethical Decision

for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...

Organ Transplant Willing Son, Aged Mother

Medicine has evolved astronomically in the last few decades. Doctors are...

Organ Donations, 2 Views

This paper pertains to the deficit in available organs for transplant and the issues associated with the black market. Three page...

Ethics of Heart Transplantation

This research paper describes the famous first heart transplant procedures performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard and discusses their...

General Information on Cochlear Implant

hearing loss and is successful in children as young as eighteen months. This is true despite some controversy not only due to cul...

Deontological and Utilitarian Ethical Perspectives on Organ Transplants

significant proportion of the feelings associated with organ transplant are positive. Not all aspects of organ transplant are ass...

Health Care Communication Protocol Enhancement

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer

semblance of order and productivity. He did not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, ins...

Consequentialist and Nonconsequentialist Ethical Perspectives on Organ Transplantation

that there are positive consequences in organ transplant. Organ transplant gives life to those previously destined to an early de...

Examination of Blood Cord Transplants

be outside the realm of acceptability; however, this is not enough reason to postpone the favorable results that have already been...

Ethics of Organ Transplantation

Considerations and Positions One commonly held ethical position is that espoused by utilitarians, whose ultimate champion is John...

Discrimination in Hong Kong

given a high priority. During 1996-97, for example, about 14,900 children arrived from the Mainland and were enrolled in governme...

Using the Cognitive Dissonance Theory to Evaluate the Decision of ER Doctor Elizabeth Corday

decide whether it was right to go against the law to do good. Many situations come up for individuals where they must decide what ...

El Salvador and Immigration to the United States

In five pages this paper examines why Salvadorian immigrants relocate to the U.S. and which regions have the greatest ethnic conce...

Partial Left Ventriculectomy Use, the Batista Procedure

In sixteen pages this paper examines how heart transplant surgery can be replaced by the partial left ventriculectomy known as the...

Epidemiology of Hepatitis C

The epidemiology of Hepatitis C is the focus of this paper. Liver transplants and recurrence after transplantation is also discuss...

Nursing Theory Practical Integration

different that needs attention, but many have been able to prepare for the changes that are happening to them. Geriatric patients...