Blood-borne disease

sociology at Brandeis University and was a well accomplished and respected educator who enjoyed dancing. During summer in 1994 Morrie Schwartz was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease; he died 4 years later. After learning of his disease, Morrie decided to make the act of death and dying into a scholastic opportunity: The living would learn from his experience with death. "When you learn how to die," Morrie said, "you learn how to live."…

Jon Underwood is the founder of Death Café, a large movem ent where people gather to drink tea, eat cake and discuss death. Their aim is to increase awareness of death to help people make the most of their (finite) lives. Jon spoke to Global Inno vation Magazine about his current crowdfunding campaign and what made him start in the fi rst place. Tell us about yourself, where did you grow up? I grew up in Chester, which is near Liverpool in the North West of Eng land. My dad was an…

Why was Geography abandoned in American higher education after WWII? Many people developed a sensitivity towards the subject. Huntington spoke of how in his day, the subject was given to a targeted audience. Geography was distributed among peoples of “merit and wisdom,” being of the same party as Huntington. They found geography to contain racial slurs. This caused the subject to lose credibility, and people turned aggressive towards different group comparisons. After the negative stigma was…

Many diseases are apt to spreading and being altered. Damian Hoy wrote in his article that due to the rising temperature many diseases, like malaria and heatstroke, will have an increased amount of incidences happening (Hoy). The amount of diseases and incidents increasing will cause more health implications than anyone will want to deal with. However climate change not only…

possibilities ranging from hair color to intellect. There are several reasons that genetic modification is wrong, however; for example, parents should love their children no matter what. The only reasons genetic modification should be accepted is to rid of diseases and disorders in a child’s genes. Genetic modification may seem like a swell process for parents that want a perfect child, but it is wrong and unfair to the child unless it is to possibly save his or her life. Some people may argue…

a more popular topic every year, but doctors and gene specialist should spend more time looking for cures to diseases; rather than pleasing the hunger of ungrateful and unsatisfied parents. Playing God is a dangerous game that inevitably ends with a monster. If society eventually allows genetic…

(Lerner). IVF comes after the embryo is created in the lab with the desired genes. Louis Brown was the first IVF baby to be born, he is also known as the first "test tube baby." The designer babies are not usually the ones engineered to not get disease, but the ones engineered to be a girl and have blue eyes. Genetic engineering is not only used in humans though, it is also used to produce medicine and in agriculture. Before this process was developed, the only source for insulin was from…

Children of the Future Genes Have you ever had a family member or rather a parent with a genetic disease? If in such a situation, many of us will ask ourselves about the chances of our children will inherit the disease. Many people would want their parents to undergo the tests in order to determine the possibility of passing over the genetic disease to the next generation. Genetic disease are conditions passed from one parents to children, and with the modern world, most children always wish to…

fairy tales. However, growing older and more mature, I discovered a huge interest in science and helping others, leading me to choose to become an epidemiologist. An epidemiologist is a “health professional who investigates patterns and causes of disease and injury in humans” (“Summary”). To accomplish my dream of attending the University of Notre Dame to get a master’s degree in epidemiology, I have to research the education or training requirements, consider the salary and benefits offered,…

Thus, when the new gene is introduced in the body, it promises immunity from the fought disease. As a result, gene therapy is more effective than pharmaceutical medicine or surgery. Patients that suffer from diseases that cause seizures, low energy, and muscle aches are prescribed drugs from a health professional to alleviate the symptoms. However, the disadvantage of prescription drugs is that they…