For centuries, animals have been used in medical research. Since 1875, animal experimentation has been an ongoing heated debate on whether experiments on animals are ethical. At the very start, the movement against animal testing focused mainly on the \"inhumanity of hurting and killing living being...

Animal research has always been a debated topic that we may never resolve. It is easy to show incidences in the past, usually dating back at least 50 years, that animal testing has been beneficial, but it is also easily argued that testing on animals has been outdated by more up-to-date testing meth...

Animal experimentation is a process also known as vivisection, that means "killed while it was alive", it attempts to "recreate human diseases in animals in order to study them" (Levin, 1995). According to many scientists who practice animal experimentation, it is a scientific ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) has defined alternative medicines as \"Any medical practice or intervention that (a) lacks sufficient documentation, for safety and effectiveness against specific diseases and conditions; (b) is not generally taught in medi...

James Cassedy\'s Medicine in America, A Short History takes a comprehensive look at medical progress in America from its colonial days to the present time. The book takes on five different themes in discussing medicine. First, it examines the medical establishment, and how it develops over time. Sec...

A New Technology of Cloning Humans Is cloning the new method to treat human beings in the future? Recently, there has been an argument about cloning a human being. When it comes to cloning, people seem to want it both ways: "no" to reproductive cloning on moral grounds and "yes" to therapeuti...

There are many benefits to the development of human cloning. Cloning of cells and genes has been a foundation in the development of many new drugs. These drugs can benefit many people suffering from heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and many other diseases. There have been many dis...

People getting sick is an everyday issue. If we did not have laboratory research on animals, people would be dying from illnesses such as the common cold. Animal Rights Activists are against animal testing, but then again when they get sick do they not use the same drugs that were tested on those ...

According to Wisconsin's Model of Academic Standards, "Information and Technology Literacy is the ability of an individual, working independently or with others, to use tools, resources, processes, and systems responsibly to access and evaluate information in any medium, and to use that in...

The First Lady Hilary Rodham Clinton and the Clinton Administration has proposed to increase focus and funding for research on the use of psychotropic medications in very young children. The recent reporting of stories in the news media documenting the increased use of psychotropic medications in...

Next time you have an involuntary twitch in your pinky finger, think of that as just being the first warning of a disease that will change your life. Parkinson's disease is a neurological disorder that affects over a million Americans. This is a physically debilitating disease that has ye...

Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's disease is a complex disease that affects the brain. "Approximately 4.5 million Americans have this disease" (Alzheimer's Disease, 2004, 1). Alzheimer's disease is a disorder that causes the gradual loss of brain cells. "The di...

In Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Marijuana, author Alan W. Bock addresses both the political and philosophical argument in favor of freedom to use medical marijuana. His book is a good source of information on Medical Marijuana because he knows his stuff. This is in part due to his extensive ...

In this article David Cutler puts forward the idea and that Health care reform in the United Stated needs to take place because there is a crisis looming in the future. From an American perspective he suggests that older people uses more Medicare dollars than any other age group in society. Also t...

Sending prescription information electronically and via the Internet has become common practice with some doctors and pharmacies. In recent years more and more health care facilities are choosing this method for many different reasons. The practice of writing prescriptions and sending them elec...

Animal TestingAnimal testing is necessary for human survival and medical research. I will give a brief background and description of animal testing, explain some of the medical advancements achieved from animal testing, and give my own opinion as to why animal testing is beneficial to humans. I wi...

As the number of individuals suffering from diseases that are incurable demand for alternative medicine practices for healing has been gaining momentum, many people perceive alternative practices as the most reliable and easily accessible way for healing. For many advocates of alternative medicines,...

Many people suffer from a disease that affects them day in and day out. Sadly, many do not believe that this disease is even serious, but if it is left untreated or if it is improperly treated, it could be fatal. What is this disease? It is depression. Dr. Ainsworth states that "depression...

Many people suffer from a disease that affects them day in and day out. Sadly, many do not believe that this disease is even serious, but if it is left untreated or if it is improperly treated, it could be fatal. What is this disease? It is depression. Dr. Ainsworth states that "depression ...

"They have an intense fear. It's so overwhelming that they'd rather be dead than fat." (110 Brownwell) An abusive disease that kills ten percent of its victims is Anorexia Nervosa. This self-starvation disorder affects one percent of all females and is a silent killer (1 Powell)....

Patient safety is such an important part of our health care system and it helps define quality health care. Keeping our patients safe is a challenging issue because errors and mistakes can and do happen. Error occurs "when a planned sequence of mental and physical activities fail to achieve ...

A psychiatrist is a licensed medical doctor who specializes in disease of the mind (not the brain, that\'s a neurologist). A psychologist is a non-medical health-care professional who has taken a master\'s degree or doctorate in psychology and treats people using interaction (therapy). A psychiatris...

Conflict-Of-Interest Policy: Who's Interests are at Stake?The thought of commercialization in the school environment leaves one to speculate that all sources of human development are easily bought. Large commercial business' are able to sew a price tag to the lapel's of grand universities, making th...

Where Do We Draw The Line?Throughout human history living creatures have been used and exploited for our benefit and entertainment. In "The Pain of Animals" Dr. David Suzuki addresses this issue and presents some arguments on the detriment of this behaviour to humanity and to our planet. It is witho...

Information about the authorNorman Cousins is senior lecturer at the School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, and consulting editor of Man and Medicine which is published at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. For almost all of his professional life, Nor...