Aravind Eye Care System: A unique model It was year 1976. Padmashree Dr. G. Venkataswamy‚ popularly referred to as Dr. V.‚ had just retired from the Government Medical College‚ Madurai‚ India as the Head of the Department of Ophthalmology. Rather than settling for a quiet retired life‚ Dr. V. was determined to continue the work he was doing at the Government Medical College‚ especially organizing rural eye camps to check sight‚ prescribe needed corrective glasses‚ do cataract and other surgeries
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Chemicals Production Company. The enterprise itself is headquartered in NYC‚ yet its Research Labs are mainly located in Connecticut. They develop and produce medicines and vaccines for a wide array of medical situations ranging from regular pain to immunology and inflammation. In 2007‚ Pfizer invested $8.1 billion in research and development‚ the largest
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Science plays a major role in my career as a veterinarian. A veterinarian is basicly a medical doctor‚ that helps and cures animals scientifically. Vets will have to use their biology‚pathology‚ microbiology‚ pharmacology‚ biochemistry and immunology skills and knowledge to determine the diagnoses and perform surgery on animals correctly. It takes about nine to ten years to become an official licensed vet. It takes longer than normal doctors because vets have to learn every anatomy of each animal
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Course Curriculum for Master Degree in Dentistry/Orthodontics The Master Degree in Dentistry/Orthodontics is awarded by the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) upon the fulfillment of the following requirements: 1. Compliance with the J.U.S.T. Master Degree regulations approved by the Dean Council (No. 492/2006)‚ dated 8/8/2006. 2. Successful completion of (34) credit hours in one of the following tracks: First: Thesis Track 1. Compulsory
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USMLE/ COMLEX Step 1 Plan Table of Contents Basic Timeline…………………………………………………………Page 2 Review Books and other Study Materials……………………………..Page 3 Question Sources………………………………………………………Page 4 Basic Sciences…………………………………………………………Page 5 Systems………………………………………………………………...Page 6 Last 2 Weeks…………………………………………………………..Page 7 COMLEX-specific Info………………………………………………Page 10 General Pointers……………………………………………………...Page 10 Question Answering Advice………………………………………….Page 10 Week Before‚ Day Before‚ Day
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Christina Mock Ms. Betres ENGL-101 November 13‚ 2014 Fear of the Ebola Virus The Ebola virus was discovered in the 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Ebola virus—previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever—has been typically a disease of Central Africa‚ which it was until recently. There are five different confirmed strains of the virus. There is the Zaire Ebola‚ the Sudan‚ the Tai Forest‚ Bundibugyo virus‚ each of which can affect humans. The fifth
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Human Cloning: Genetic Advancement or Genetic Manipulation? Some people might argue that the real offense would be to hinder the progress of science and experimental investigation with regard to human cloning. That to do so would mean to deny the right to scientifically explore and gain from such. Exploration and discovery in advanced technologies and science quite often proves to be beneficial to mankind; however‚ even though human cloning capabilities may tempt man’s inherently diabolical God-playing
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techniques and advanced technologies to develop medicines that address significant unmet needs and provide clinical benefits to millions of patients worldwide. Their development pipeline includes more than fifty projects in the areas of oncology‚ immunology‚ and disorders or tissue growth and repair (Genentech‚ 2008). On January 22‚ 2008‚ Fortune magazine named Genentech one of the "100 Best
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History of Leprosy Leprosy has long been a well-known chronic & infectious disease affecting the skin and nerves from biblical times through modernity‚ infecting not only physical health in the society but the development research into new bacterium diseases. This contagious disease can infect an individual by direct person-to-person contact‚ making it very difficult for them to live normal lifestyles. In result‚ this disease can cause people to lack the feeling/numbness in the limbs‚ disfigurement
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Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology‚ immunology and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928‚ for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Walter Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. Alexander Fleming was born August 6‚ 1881 at Lochfield‚ a farm near Darvel
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