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Damage control: Zit-popping without making a mess Popping a pimple might as well be the greatest temptation during a breakout episode to end all blemish woes. Deep down, we should know better that it's not the right thing to do. But hey, zits happen and are asking for that desperate squeeze. You can't help but give it a little pinch. You know what they say: old habits die hard. Enraged, the next thing you know is that ugly, tiny monster has exploded and you just want it healed … fast! Believe…

An Eye for an Eye Did you know the famous saying “an eye for an eye” is actually 4,000 years old! Approximately 4 millennia ago, a great king known as Hammurabi conquered the land of Mesopotamia. He then established a very famous set of laws to run his newly-formed empire. However, these laws had extremely harsh and cruel punishments for many criminal acts, such as dismemberment and death. Hammurabi’s code was mostly an unjust system, but he did create some revolutionary new laws.…

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are organisms that have been changed around by mutating, inserting, and deleting genes with the use of genetic engineering techniques or biotechnology (Goldbas 20). The goals genetic engineers seek is to create plant resistance to weeds, insect pests, plant diseases, droughts, and floods (Lundquist 26). Grumet, Hancock, Maredia, and Weebadde explained how genetically engineered crops are developed using a combination of genetic engineering and conventional…

“Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands” was published in the Lancet, a well-known medical journal, to share the effects of near-death experiences and the possible influences that act upon it. Psychologists observed patients throughout eight years in an effort to see their outcomes on life. The experimenters also wanted to know if other influences such as medications, time between CPR, seriousness of crisis, and psychological factors caused…

So it was that early in the middle ages, a small town banded together and created one of the greatest Christian sanctuaries the world has ever known. In many ways, it would set the standard for all other gothic cathedrals: It is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres. Chartres Cathedral stands on a hill above the river Eure, in the town of Chartres. Its spires rise like beacons on the horizon, and can bee seen miles away. Today, its majestic carved towers and facades project a mediaeval…

Barbie dolls with distorted arms, cheap bedazzled jewelry, cherry-flavored chap stick or stolen makeup from Mom: things you can find in a little girl’s drawer. But not mine. My drawer consisted of test strips, alcohol pads, syringes and lancets. At the age of eight, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Given this news, I felt isolated and my future became a blur. To make a long story short, my whole lifestyle had to change in order to survive: a new diet plan, constantly needing to prick my…

This research paper will discuss the healthcare profession of a Dietitian. In words of the Amir Khan’s of publication of an article in the ‘Health.Usnews’, “America's waistline continues to expand, according to a study published today in The Lancet. The obesity epidemic remains the biggest public health issue facing the country, and despite awareness of the need to get in shape, more than a third of the country is now obese.” Dietitians are often referred to as RDs (registered dietitian), they…

A diet provides individuals nourishment through the consumption of food and while maintaining a well-balanced diet is what all strive for, most diets are faulted and recently it has been shown that even children are suffering from inadequacies in their diets. In particular those associated with deficiencies in Vitamin A and Vitamin D. A study conducted by the Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, at the University of Texas SW Medical Center aimed their research towards the evaluation…

think that’s unfair because, it may have been an accident and not on purpose, so the physician shouldn’t have his hands cut off, he may not have meant to kill the patient. Law 218 is unfair because, it says ‘if a surgeon has operated with a bronze lancet on a free man for a serious injury, and has caused his death, … his hands shall be cut off.’ That’s unjust because, the surgeon obviously was trying to save the man’s life and not kill him. Cutting off the hands of the surgeon will not bring the…

How to Test Your Blood Pressure at Home Problem Background In this time and age, lifestyle diseases and health conditions are a bigger menace than the untreatable and unpreventable ailments the world knows. Unfortunately, these conditions, which people have attracted to themselves is causing massive deaths of individuals worldwide. Most of these are brought about by people’s eating habits, drug abuse, and laziness. More precisely, diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, obesity, depression…