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    has created a very sculpted, advantageous society. One of the many technological advancements that has help change society overtime is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and it continues to be enhanced to lead to more cutting edge health care. The “father of the MRI” is what Dr. Raymond Damadian is best known as, although there has been major controversy over who exactly made this medical discovery. Damadian’s medical breakthrough happened in the years 1970-1973 when experimenting with nuclear magnetic

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    Medical research benefits humans greatly. In fact, decades of medical studies have made several diseases treatable, such as diabetes, tuberculosis, and malaria; moreover, medical research has prevented diseases altogether. Common for all these developments is animal-testing. While testing on animals is not morally ideal, scientists lack good alternatives. Thus, abandoning animal-testing is premature because medical research needs complex-system test-subjects, and the absence of which can be risky

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    series of test for our safety. Animal testing is also a very debatable subject on whether it should be continued or not. Animal testing should be continued because no one wants to take the risk of an untested product and there are plenty of new medical advancements being made from it. To begin with, animal testing is something people really take for granted. Without it we would be put in a dilemma everyday of deciding if we want to buy a product. In Source C, they show an illustration of

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    physician assistant school wants. According to AAPA website most of schools prerequisites include biology, chemistry, physiology, anatomy, and microbiology as well. Including your prerequisites you also may need to develop some hands on experience in the medical field before applying to some physician assistant schools. You can gain this experience by working as a certified nurse, paramedic, surgical tech and etc. After you complete all of this your next step will be getting accepted into a physician assistant

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    My primary goal as a biomedical engineer is to impact the accessibility of medicine, including cost, efficiency, and user friendliness, through the general advancement of medical technology and the development of new methods. Such advancements contribute to the overall improvement and availability of medical technologies in standard medical care facilities and could also impact areas with limited access to modern medicine. These are large scale ideas, but they are the foundation of my professional

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    every year. Of these one hundred and fifty billion many of them are used for medical research but also many are used for unnecessary pleasure to humans. We take advantage of animals every day without thinking about the consequences that result. Destruction of animals is essential for providing nutrients and allowing medical discoveries, but not for the sake of entertainment. A key component for having more advancements in medicine and to become more knowledgeable about the world around us is animal

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    The age of the globalisation has gifted mankind of many advancements and enhancements in many aspects or areas. One of the advancements is the technological enhancements in the field of health technologies which is evolving tremendously every minute; but whether this advancements in health technology is in our advantage or disadvantage is entirely a different question. Many disadvantages arises with such advancements as it does with most technologies known to mankind. Our research has yielded some

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    Case for Animal Testing

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    say, liver failure; if it were not for the research done on pigs in regards to liver transplants, there may have never been an opportunity for this person to survive (“Medical Advances” 21). Animal experimentation is validated simple by the benefits it has created in both our medical fields and the veterinary field. The advancements over the past century are astonishing. Backed by the weight of scientific literature the case that animal experiments can produce scientifically valid results is clear

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    Diagnostic medical sonography is a profession where sonographers direct high-frequency sound waves into a patient’s body through use of specific equipment to diagnose or monitor a patient’s medical condition. As described by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this examination is referred to as an ultrasound, sonogram, or echocardiogram. The high-frequency sound waves emitted from the handheld device, called a transducer, bounce back creating an echo and therefore produce an image that can be viewed

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    What would Wilhelm Roentgen, the father of X-ray, say about the technological discoveries in radiology today? Since the start of X-rays in 1895 significant advancements have revolutionized the field of radiology. One illustrates how different scanners have improved, in addition how picture archiving communication system can assist doctors, and finally the outlook on the future of radiology. To begin with, how has technology changed the field of radiology? Since the discovery of X-radiation

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