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When people go to get their driver license, they are always asked the same question; Do you want to be an organ donor? When people are asked to answer that question, they are usually uninformed on organ donation, or this is the first time they are hearing about organ donation and being an organ donor. Once people are informed about organ donation, the main reasons they decide not to be an organ donor is because they believe that doctors will be less likely to save them if they are an organ donor…

spinal cord damage. I have specifically chosen blindness, since I know that it is not easy to treat and cure blindness . Your eyes and, brain have a very important function for seeing. The eye is made up of many different parts, which include the cornea, iris, lens, and retina. All these parts work together to focus on light and images. Your eyes use special nerves to send what you see to your brain, so that it can process and recognize what is happening. If this process doesn’t…

also have different body function then animals, and experiments can lead to animal extinction. First of all, there are many alternative that cosmetic companies can use. One of them is the Bovine Corneal Opacity and Permeability. This alternative uses cornea tissues in place of live rabbits. Also, Human cells and tissue culture have helped advance the studies in human disease. Epidermis is a human cell culture that has replaced animals in skin irritation test. Epidermis places substances in the…

Vitrectomy A vitrectomy is a procedure to remove vitreous from your eye and replace it with a saltwater solution (saline). Vitreous is a sticky, gel-like substance that fills most of the inside of the eyeball. The vitreous is clear and needs to stay clear for you to see properly. This procedure is done to stabilize or improve your vision. You may need this procedure if: • Your vitreous is cloudy. • Your vitreous is pulling on the structures it touches and risks tearing them. • You…

When it look as George III would never recover, “it was now evident to the premier, that there must be either a legislative union or a parliamentary reform. From the discussions on the regency, it would appear the Tories are not devoted to hereditary monarch; they would prefer an elective one, provided it is arbitrary. The Whigs restrain their distrust of the monarch for the sake of a regular advancement of liberty. They will sometimes wear a royal livery to work out reforms, and to effect a…

This story is all about the time my eye got scratched, by a dog! Okay so let's back it up and start at the beginning of the day. I remember that specific morning was Thanksgiving day of either 2008 or 2009. I don't remember much about the morning but I can recall my mom talking on the phone a bit, then coming out and dressing my sister and I. We were still young and couldn’t properly pick our clothes out, especially since this was a special occasion. My mom knew this lady and they were good…

Tropical areas of the world are heavily ravaged by the burdens of parasitic diseases. While malaria attracts much of the attention, there are still unreasonable burdens placed on communities by other filarial infections such as Onchocerciasis. Recently, there have been effective strategies used to eradicate Dracunculus medinensis from almost all endemic areas. Both Onchocerca and Dracunculus are nematodes they are radially symmetrical, have three tissue layers, and have a hydrostatic skeleton.…

inherited disorder. It occurs at birth, but symptoms of the disease do not appear till the ages of 6 through 40 and is caused by a large accumulation of copper in the body. An indication of the disease is a deep copper colored ring around the edge of cornea and the most common medical consequences of Wilson disease is liver disease because the liver is what eliminates the absorbed copper when we consume food and turns it into bile so the copper levels in our body remain leveled. When the copper…

the eyes, blurry or decreased vision, dark floating spots, and light sensitivity. These symptoms should be reported to a doctor immediately, as uveitis develops rapidly. Uveitis occurs in a part of the eye called the uvea. The uvea is behind the cornea and includes the iris, lens, ciliary body, some of the vitreous, and choroid. Different kinds of uveitis affect different parts of the uvea. Anterior uveitis is an inflammation in the iris, sometimes called iritis. Intermediate uveitis is an…

In uncomplicated infection recovery begins soon after the appearance of the rash. However, complications will occur in up to 40% of all patients, the risk of a complication being higher for the very young or for adults and in undernutrition. Mortality is highest in infants and younger children. Complications most commonly are respiratory, and pneumonia causes most measles-associated deaths. The pneumonia risk is higher with immune suppression, which can be induced systemically by the virus…