Grey's Anatomy

Should organs be legal to sell around the world? Sally Satel, a practicing psychiatrist and kidney receiver, believes so. Satel states that there is a global organ shortage, and that has to do with kidney selling being illegal. In order to make organ selling legal, one would have to price a kidney at $50,000, and implement rigorous health screening. However, what Satel argues in “Why We Need a Market for Human Organs,” reprinted from The Wall Street Journal, is a high risk, high reward deal task…

The position of the foramen magnum, the length of the leg, the shape of the spine and pelvis are four of the seven steps of bipedality. The position of the foramen magnum is located in the bottom of the skull, near the teeth in humans, and in the rear area for apes. This distinguish humans and apes because it demonstrates that the human head sits on the body rather than on the front of the body, like apes. The shape of the spine is s-shaped for humans and c-shaped for apes. Specifically, in…

Organ Sales Legalized Rhetorical Analysis for "Organ Sales Will Save Lives" It does not make sense for people to die unnecessarily if there is a way to easily save their lives. Author of "Organ Sales Will Save Lives", Joanna Mackay seems to agree. In her essay, she argues that the government should regulate organ sales, rather than ban them. In "Organ Sales Will Save Lives" Mackay uses facts and statistics to reveal shocking numbers to the audience, revealing how lengthy the waitlist for…

When a human dies, his or her body gets decomposed until there is nothing left but bare bones. This phenomenon is possible due to millions of bacteria that exist in around us.They essentially feast on the cells, breaking the human’s building blocks down for their own use. But if the living and the dead are composed of the same fundamental materials, what prevents us, the living, from being devoured by the horde of hungry pathogens? The answer lies in the body’s immune system. The story starts…

Shortage of the organs and tissues has always been a critical medical problem. According to the data from Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, the patient waiting list for organs in US consists of more than 80,000 patients and many of them die waiting on their organ list. There are several approaches for addressing this problem like artificial organs, xenotransplantation, etc. But these have other limitations like expensive organ- transplant…

Ranging from anatomical aspects of wisdom teeth and ear muscles to the behavioral palmar grasp reflex and goosebumps, to the molecular pseudogenes, human vestiges are quintessential imperfections of human evolution (Vieth, 2010). Synonymously referred to as evolutionary “leftovers,” vestigial structures are residual features derived from an organism's predecessors that have lost most or all of its ancestral function (“Evidence for Evolution,” 2016). The existence of vestigial structures is often…

Core training is an important method to stabilize the body trunk (Park & Yu, 2013). Athletes train in order to stabilize the spine, abdomen, and pelvis in order to be able to accomplish functional movements and to reduce the stress on the spine in order to avoid lower back pain (Park & Yu, 2013). Research has shown several techniques and exercises in order to produce this stabilization two of which are the bracing maneuver and the drawing-in maneuver. There are several researchers that work to…

Scoliosis is a condition where a child has a curve to their spine, with an unknown cause. Often times this curve is seen as an S-shape or C-shape during an examination of the spine. There are two types of scoliosis: structural and nonstructural. Structural scoliosis is a curve along the spine that affects the vertebral movement of the spine. Nonstructural scoliosis is caused by an effect, not by the spine but results from poor posture, differences in leg length, or an uneven gait. If…

There are many individuals who are in desperate need of an organ transplant. Many people die waiting after being on the waiting list for years. The individuals who sell their organs illegally do it for the simple fact of financial reasons. The American’s who sell their organs have not been educated of the dangers they are putting themselves in by selling their organs illegally. By these individuals doing this make it harder for others to even want to consider donating their organs to help others…

In the Augmented Perception for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation study experimenters were looking at different hand postures and movements used in everyday skills. This was evaluated through identifying different motions of the arms, elbows, wrist, and fingers, and imitating these motions. With respect to identifying the motion, the participant either with or without a headset on, heard a beep, saw two stick figure arms, then saw either the left or right arm move and perform 1 of 4 actions (wiggle,…