Toxicology

Cruelty to animals or we can call it simply as animal abuse, is a situation where a human inflicts pain or causes suffering and harm to animals beyond necessity. According to Ontario SPCA and Humane Society (n.d.), animal abuse falls into two categories which are neglect or intentional cruelty. Neglect is a situation where the owner fails to provide animals basic necessities such as water, food, shelter or even proper care. Some of the examples of neglect are starvation, dehydration, parasite…

Why Forensic Pathology? Many have disputed the importance of going to college, many say that college is a waste of time, many say that college is the only option for their families. High school students see college as the only way to be successful in their lives, while on the other hand people believe that there are too many students in college. They believe that most students that do not score above the 90th percentile are “too dumb” to go to college, that it is too stressful of an environment…

For decades, animal testing has been and still is one of the most controversial topics discuss in the modern world, our society is no exception. Like a never-ending story, animals have been brutally used as testing objects in scientific research purposely for humans’ usage. It can be dated back as early as 1880’s that animals including mice, pigs, rabbits, and etc. were exploited in scientific experiments. Vaccines, medicines, and cures are discovered with animal testing, but the practice of…

Are Vaccines Toxic? The subject on vaccine being dangerous raises many sensitive conflicts/arguments between doctors, families and the U.S regulators ever sense the FDA approved the vaccine. Vaccines became one of the biggest accomplishments to society. Vaccines are made to prepare the immune system by arousing the antibodies and encouraging them to fight and defend the body from infectious diseases; it provides a boost for the defense system. They were created to protect many against the…

The United States have nine genetically modified plants: corn, cotton, soy, sugar beets, Hawaiian papaya, canola, zucchini, yellow squash, and alfalfa for animal’s feedings. The plants are modified for new desirable traits and the recombinant DNA is forced into the DNA of other species to make new organisms. During the process to accelerate the rapid growth, the gene (s) can become unknown and the host plant mutation causes collateral damage that induces toxins, allergy reactions or new…

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: Direct Environmental Impacts GMOs environmental record demonstrates that they are highly likely to have a deleterious effect on long-term food supplies because they are already damaging the environment. U.N. scientist Olivier De Schutter has discovered that the production of genetically modified grain seeds—for corn, soybeans, rice and other staple crops—has eliminated 75% or more of the wild species of these grains (Schutter “Seed Policies”). A disease that destroys the…

The King of Rock and Roll It was a beautiful August afternoon in Branson Missouri. The kids went on adventures, while Norma and Walter just sat back on the deck at their lake house, enjoying the sweet summer breeze and the relaxing feeling of the outdoors. After a while, they decided to take the kids out on the lake and maybe get a little fishing in before sunset that evening. But little did they know, the music industry was changing as they spoke. A legend breathed his last breath the evening…

Trade Name: Daklinza Generic Name: Daclatasvir Daklinza is a newly the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) approved drug to treat patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 3 infection.4 The company that markets the drug is Bristol-Myers Squibb, located in Princeton, New Jersey. The date of approval by the U.S FDA for the drug is July 24th, 2015. Although, Japan was the first country in the world to approve the drug , now the drug is being marketed in U.S, including northern and central…

Head Firearm Injury Introduction: Gunshot deaths are self-inflicted in most of the cases with incidence rate per 100,000 populations in 2001 was 0.14 in UK in which suicidal and homicidal deaths represent 65% and 7% respectively, and with a rate of 10.2 in US in which suicidal and homicidal deaths represent 67% and 27% respectively.1 In study of 64 firearm deaths in Dammam, the age of the cases was ranging from 16 to 45, in which suicidal injuries accounts for 11% of all fatalities. In 80% of…

When first trying to understand the issues of technology abuse facing children today, we must consider that times aren’t like what they used to be. Just around 10 years ago, children would play outside, ride bikes, play tag, and engage in sports. They were all masters of their own imagination, creating new and enjoyable ways to entertain themselves without costing their families an arm and a leg. But now, todays families are different, and this change has occurred due to technology. Technology’s…