Medicine

Personalized Medicine In recent years, the growth and changes in medicine has been exponential than linear. With the innovations of new cutting edge technologies, medicine is not only changing through technological perspective but through human perspective as well. While millions of lives have been saved with the traditional one –size-fits-all blockbuster medicine, some drawbacks are still preventing an effective treatment for each individual. An individual’s response to any medications are…

unconventional view on Law and Medicine Montaigne’s work is a personal investigation of himself. He is skeptic not only of himself but on what we can gain from reflection. His skepticism and search for truth causes him to reject commonly accepted things such as law and medicine. He believes we should reason and experience according to nature because it reveals the likeness, however, it can mislead us because it also reveals the unlikeness. He touches on the two topics of law and medicine…

The book "Love Medicine" has a time span from 1934-1984, where it draws its attention on a dozen different main characters lives which all interconnect with one another. The book follows a circular pattern with it stating in 1981 backtracking its way to the 30s and then finally ending where it started in the 80s. It begins with the death of June Morrissey and while she does pass away at the beginning she has a prominent role in the story. Almost every main character takes a turn narrating the…

Chinese Medicine has both a long and rich history going as far back as 1600 B.C., where Chinese caldrons were used to make “pills” and other herbal medicines. Generally speaking, this is where the root of Chinese culture influenced an epidemic of rare animals becoming nearly extinct (Shen-Nong). For this reason, it is crucial to pave way to more laws in regard to wealthy Chinese people who are increasingly causing an environmental disaster to millions of rare and endangered animals due to…

host organism. Genetic engineering has applications in medicine, research, industry and agriculture and can be used on a wide range of plants, animals and microorganisms. The following are the applications…

As this year common reader at Barry University, we are learning information about DNA and how it personalized medicine. We are now in the genome era. It’s a major part of health and human being. In the mini conference, the keynote speaker Dr. Carla Easter is included in Community Involvement Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute and informs us about the Genome Project, how it apply to our health and how it evolved around society. My generation was the one that grew up with the…

the right medicine that would help ease the pain and length of labor, but having to forcefully go through the many hours of labor and delivery. Anxious when having sexual intercourse, because you know there is no way of preventing pregnancy because the protection, that is available today, was not available then. Now, a woman can get pregnant and be satisfied, she will not have to worry about if the delivery is going to be sanitary and properly performed, plus having…

nations, often overshadows upcoming advances or developments in therapeutic treatment. A rather niche approach, bioelectronic medicine, is particularly attractive to the field of biomedical engineering, relying less on biochemistry than an integration of device and neurology. Georgina Casey, nursing lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, writes that bioelectronic medicine is an internal or external therapy that targets a particular area of the body and disrupts action potentials through…

Are you a fan of drama and heartache? If so, then Love Medicine might be the book you’re looking for! Love Medicine is a fictional American novel by Louise Erdrich that was originally published in 1984 and was later rereleased in an expanded edition in 1993. It received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Fiction in 1984 and is “Erdrich’s first and most critically acclaimed novel” (University of Nebraska-Lincoln). Erdrich herself is “the daughter of a Chippewa Indian mother and a…

been found scattered across Saskatchewan and can have multiple meanings is the Medicine wheel. Through history the meanings may have been altered for a better understanding, and the meaning once again is understood differently by each aboriginal group. Some people can glance at the Medicine wheel and have a full understanding of what it means, where others may need a full explanation. The…