Natural and unnatural medicines: advantages and disadvantages Jae Eastern Time COM/220 Jewel Jackson Which is better for the consumer‚ pharmaceutical medicine or herbal medicine? There are good sides and bad sides to both types of medicine. Because of my own personal experience with several different antidepressants and heart burn medicine made by pharmacy companies and their herbal‚ or natural‚ equivalent‚ I can provide my point of view with these two particular types of medicine‚ but does
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chemotherapy‚ to designate the use of antimicrobial compounds to treat microbial infections. In 1910‚ EHRLICH discovered the first antibiotic drug‚ Salvarsan‚ which was used against syphilis. EHRLICH was followed by Alexander FLEMING‚ who discovered penicillin by accident in 1928. Then‚ in the 1935‚ Gerhard DOMAGK discovered the sulfa drugs‚ thereby paving the way to the discovery of the anti-TB drug Isoniazid. Then‚ in 1939‚ René DUBOS became the first scientist to discover an antibiotic after
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usually look at whether a defendant’s conduct has in any way contributed to the damage sustained by the plaintiff. It is a fact that the fight between X and Y resulted in X being hospitalised and subsequently getting an infection‚ being administered penicillin and having an allergic reaction to it‚ resulting in brain injury and which ultimately led X to lose his
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Frequent text message users‚ social media advocates‚ and opinionated bloggers all write about various topics‚ but how does that compare to classic writing? Clive Thompson‚ author of Smarter Than You Think‚ continuously supports his mark that the Internet‚ regardless of its credibility‚ is progressively transforming today’s way of writing‚ allowing society to write more effectively and for longer lengths. Based on Thompson’s claims he makes in “Public Thinking”‚ it is apparent that appeals to logos
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ORE Part 1 – Format Part 1 of the test comprises two‚ three-hour written papers‚ undertaken on a computer and is made up of Extended Matching Questions (EMQs) and Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) in the form of Single Best Answer questions (SBAs). Extended matching questions (EMQs) Extended matching questions are grouped into themes. Each theme has a heading that tells you what the questions are about. Within each theme there are several numbered items. These are the questions and the
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a break in your skin genitals area or mouth. Once in your body‚ about three weeks it becomes a sore or have multiple sores. The sore looks like a crater on the surface of the skin. In the first stage it can be treated easily with antibiotics or penicillin. The second stage the syphilis spreads to the rest of the body. It is visible in your hand and soles and in your feet. It can cause cardio-vascular disease‚ mental problems‚ paralysis‚ blindness and tumors. Syphilis has links to HIV/AIDS. It also
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some of which include; Drugs from Fungi At the beginning of the 21st century‚ Fungi were involved in the industrial processing of more than 10 of the 20 most profitable products used in medicine. Three anti-cholesterol statins‚ the antibiotic penicillin and the immunosuppressant cyclosporin A are among the top 10. Fungi are extremely useful organisms in biotechnology. Fungi construct unique complex molecules using established metabolic pathways. Different taxa produce sets of related molecules
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Sickle Cell anemia is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders‚ or a collection of recessive genetic disorders characterized by a hemoglobin variant called Hb S. Normal red blood cells are round like doughnuts‚ and they move through small blood tubes in the body to deliver oxygen. Sickle red blood cells become hard‚ sticky and shaped like sickles used to cut wheat. When these hard and pointed red cells go through the small blood tube‚ they clog the flow and break apart. This can cause pain‚
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment took place in Macon County between the years 1932 and 1972. The U.S. Public Health Services teamed up with Tuskegee University to study how syphilis would advance when left untreated. A total of 600 African American were joined in the study‚ out of these men 399 were diseased before the study began and 201 did not have the ailment. All the participants were uninformed of what they were actually being treated for. According to the
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disease. It was morally wrong to test these men without permission and mislead them to false hope of an antibiotic. These men were given standard treatment but were denied antibiotics. In 1940‚ researchers discovered that penicillin was an effective cure. During the 1950s‚ penicillin
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