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    The Artificial Heart

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    Good morning! Today I’m going to talk about artificial heart as one of the most significant invention in the history of humanity. An artificial heart is a device that replaces the heart. Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to heart transplantation‚ or to permanently replace the heart in case heart transplantation is impossible. Since the late nineteenth century‚ scientists have tried to develop a mechanical device that could restore oxygen to the blood and remove

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    Heart Disease

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    Heart disease‚ strokes and high blood pressure The heart: Our heart is a vital organ; it is a super muscle which constantly pumps our blood around our body at a rate of 40 to 100 beats per minute for a lifetime. It never tires. The heart has two sides which are separated and each side has two chambers. Valves make sure blood can only flow in one direction. The right side receives de-oxygenated blood from the body through the vena cava and pumps it through the pulmonary artery to the lungs‚ and the

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    Gambling and Public Policy RONALD M. PAVALKO Abstract The expansion of legalized gambling poses a number of issues for policymakers. Two related issues‚ which have not been dealt with extensively from a public policy perspective‚ are examined in this commentary: state responsibility for addressing pathological and problem gambling‚ and the legal status and regulation of Internet gambling. A review of the recommendations of the 1998 National Gambling Impact Study Commission on pathological and problem

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    The Human Heart

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    The heart is one of the most important organs in your body. So what does it do? It’s function is to pump blood to all the other organs. But the heart can not function alone‚ it has other organs and blood vessels helping it. The human heart is a pear shaped and about the size of a human fist. It is made of muscle and there are three different layers. The outer layer is called the epicardium. The middle layer is called the myocardium which is made of muscles that contract. The inner layer is called

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    Heart Disease

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    Heart Disease Amber Brooks HCS-245 November 26‚ 2012 Tynan Weed‚ Facilitator Heart Disease Heart disease is what is known as the silent killer; to me I believe this whole heartedly. I hold this particular disease close to my heart because I had a lost due to the disease in my family. I had to realize that it must be really serious for the simple fact that it works so silently and could kill off so easily. I did my research on it and I now know the severity of it. Everyone

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    Heart Failure

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    right Before a heart Attack Your Body Will Give You These 4 Signs w3.newsmax.com Heart Failure  Definition Heart failure is a condition in which the heart has lost the ability to pump enough blood to the body’s tissues. With too little blood being delivered‚ the organs and other tissues do not receive enough oxygen and nutrients to function properly. Description According to the American Heart Association‚ about 4.9 million Americans are living with congestive heart failure. Of these‚ 2.5 million

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    Short Article-Kaiser Permanente Botches Its Kidney Transplant Center Project 1. Classify and describe the problems Kaiser faced in setting up the transplant center. What was the role of information systems and information management in these problems? The information technology based problems that Kaiser faced in setting up the transplant center are use of paperwork‚ lost records‚ incomplete or incorrect date‚ lack of specific procedures for transferring data‚ no process for tracking or responding

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    Ethics Memo

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    2013 Subject: Heart Transplant Candidate The purpose of this memorandum is to come to a conclusion about which individual should receive the heart transplant taking into account ethics. There are three people who are in need of the organ transplant; Jerry‚ Lisa‚ and Ozzy. In order to make an informed decision it is important to look at all three cases. Candidate #1- Jerry is a 55 year old male with three children. In his early 20’s Jerry used steroids which in turn damaged his heart. His life expectancy

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    Ethics

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    Edited by contributors: Jan Barfoot‚ Donald Bruce‚ Graeme Laurie‚ Nina Bauer‚ Janet Paterson and Mary Bownes Stem Cellsethics science and Stem Cells science and ethics Acknowledgements The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)‚ the UK’s leading funding agency for research in the life sciences‚ commissioned this booklet to help ‘A’ level and Higher/Advanced Higher students gain access to accurate and up-to-date information on stem cell research. The project was co-ordinated

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    keeping huge amounts of data safe from other people’s eyes or keeping them tracked via a systematic barcode. All these data sets collect information in various ways. Their job is to keep it all protected for their customers and patients. NHS Blood & Transplant Service (NHSBT) The NHSBT Service has massive amounts of data in which to store; mainly due to the high volumes of donors of blood and organs. This information has to be kept classified as it holds very important scientific data and personal information

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