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In 1763, a clergyman named Edmund Stone claimed that he had found the remedy to fevers, common amongst those who lived in damp areas. He stated that the answer lay in the powdered bark of willow trees. Although this philosophy …

Recent evidence has also suggested that as well as preventing pain, heart disease and cancer, aspirin may also prevent Alzheimer’s disease, by approximately 10%. Although the exact cause of Alzheimer’s disease is still unclear, one suggestion is that the inflammation …

Over a century after it was first discovered, scientists are now learning what the mechanism of action is that makes paracetamol such an effective and useful drug. It now appears that paracetamol has a highly targeted action in the brain, …

With medical advances promising ever more detailed pre-natal genetic screening, do we have a duty to prevent the birth of physically and/or mentally impaired individuals? ABSTRACT: Medical advances, notably PGD, offer the chance to ensure that children can be born with much …

If society, and indeed a child’s parents, have a duty to provide that child with adequate opportunities for achievement,vi then they are surely guilty by negative responsibilityvii if they fail to prevent a disability which will certainly impact on that …

The third key issue surrounding this topic is our right to judge the quality of someone else’s life, and how serious a disability needs to be before it is considered right to try and avoid its manifestation. It has been …

The above quotation gives an impression of how difficult it is for scientists to study one of the very subjective matters of mind: consciousness. One possible reason for this is that the nature of consciousness itself is still uncertain, how …

Another important findings of consciousness in terms of its manifestation in the brain processes come from commissurotomy or “split-brain” patients (Sperry, 1982). The patients undergo a midline surgery of the corpus callosum and other forebrain commissures in a last effort …

The Florentine Chronicle was written in the late 1370’s by Marchione di Coppo Stefani. It is an account of The Black Death that struck the inhabitants of Florence in 1348. Stefani goes into great detail about the severity of the symptoms …

Caused by disorders of iron metabolism, disorders of porphyrin and heme synthesis or disorders of globin synthesis Iron deficiency is the most common cause Iron is the essential component of hemoglobin and is in constant demand during erythropoiesis IDA develops slowly in 3 …