Gertrude B. Elion: Why Is She Important? It was the day Gertrude Belle Elion would share the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology with George H. Hitchings‚ a medical doctor she assisted. It was their use of innovative methods for developing drugs that people recognized as an important discovery. Elion is an American biochemist and pharmacologist. Elion’s goal was to alleviate‚ meaning to make less severe‚ human suffering from illnesses. Other than the individual drugs she discovered‚ she also developed
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decisions concerning her. He allows Anna’s organs to be donated‚ thus saving Kate’s (Anna’s sister) life; Kate was dying of leukemia and believes that Anna took her place in heaven. Whereas‚ in the motion picture‚ it is more focused on Kate and her memories‚ using a scrapbook she made for her mother. As well as‚ Anna is told she won her case and Kate died because of her leukemia. The ending of the story is key to the book’s message‚ “that sad things in life are going to happen and some things can’t
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creatures that can be used to help humans with many different health problems. An important reason that animals should be used for research is‚ that some hold the key and have helped to curing diseases and cancers. Scientist are close to curing leukemia using mice and rats. Mice have already helped with breast cancer patients because cancer survival rates have gone up. They have helped with the medicine breast cancer patients are using. In addition‚ there are many other different animals out there
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expansion of air. The result was the immediate death of 75‚000 people. (www.grolier.com) The long-term effects of the bomb on the environment and children are horrible. Atomic blasts cause many prolonged injuries such as‚ keloids‚ cataracts‚ leukemia and other cancers. (earthbase.org) The total death count for the atomic bombing is estimated at 140‚000. This means that almost as many people died from the long-term effects as were killed in the initial explosion. People who think that dropping
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winning the Heisman Trophy as the outstanding college football player in America‚ his younger brother Joey‚ John’s younger brother‚ was suffering from leukemia. Something For Joey the true-life story of John Cappelletti‚ once a professional football player‚ and his younger brother Joey‚ a victim of leukemia. Joey is a young child trying to cope with leukemia and has only one hero in the world‚ his older brother John‚ who is a football player that attends Penn State. Joey lives to see his brother John‚
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Why should marijuana be legalized? Marijuana can be argued for different reasons. In my case I will be arguing the medical purposes for legalizing marijuana. Marijuana has positive features‚ and how people prefer using marijuana. Marijuana helps individuals get through a variety of things that they suffer. Marijuana provides relief from pain‚ rather than other medications out there. Many individuals prefer marijuana over anything else to relax. An argument on why people using marijuana spend more
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Edited by Coffin JM‚ Hughes SH‚ Varmus HE. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 1997::475-586. 2. Nowinski RC‚ Hays EF: Oncogenicity of AKR endogenous leukemia viruses. J Virol 1978‚ 27:13-18. PubMed Abstract | PubMed Central Full Text 3. Cloyd MW‚ Hartley JW‚ Rowe WP: Lymphomagenicity of recombinant mink cell focus-inducing murine leukemia viruses. J Exp Med 1980‚ 151:542-552. PubMed Abstract | Publisher Full Text 4. Rowe WP‚ Cloyd MW‚ Hartley JW: Status of the association of mink cell focus-forming
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year back my sister died due to Leukemia and my mom had a surgery for brain tumor this year and she have Lung cancer. Cancer is the disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of a body. The cell can spread to other parts of the body through blood and lymph system. There is not one kind of cancer there are more than 100 types of cancer. They can be grouped in to broader categories. The main categories of cancer are Carcinoma‚ Sarcoma‚ Leukemia‚ Lymphoma and Myeloma and Central
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the child.” (Men too) “When a male smoke before birth it may result in lower birth weight and an increased the risk of life threatening diseases such as leukemia‚ lymphoma‚ and brain cancer. There is also an increased risk of fathering a child with a cleft lip‚ cleft palate‚ water-on-the-brain‚ or heart defects.” (Men Too) So in conclusion‚ a man does affect his future child’s health. Many don’t know this but I feel if they did they would treat their body better so they don’t risk their future
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occurred as people were drinking this polluted water and they were using it for cooking. That region was characterized by large number of illnesses and sick people. Unfortunately contaminated water became the reason of death of children‚ who died from leukemia. According to general obligation law to environmental contamination caused by businesses‚ company must pay compensation if its manufacturing processes resulted in contamination and this pollution in its turn caused the personal injury or property
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