Essays Tagged: "Polio vaccine"
Jonas Salk
for cures of illness. Jonas Salk found acure for one of the worst illnesses in the history of man, polio. Jonas Salk's polio vaccinewas a great discovery of his time, and it is still being used today ... alk's polio vaccinewas a great discovery of his time, and it is still being used today to eradicate polioworldwide. Dr. Salk is also known for other medical discoveries. He was a quiet manwho lived a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Effects of Polio on Society
Effects of Polio on Society Polio had existed in society for a long time in history, although not as big ... society were great. People feared that tomorrow they or their family members or friends would catch polio. Although polio has been significantly reduced in numbers, it still continues to exist ... mbers, it still continues to exist in Africa and some parts of Asia. People are still infected with polio, and there are still global initiatives for the eradication of polio. These initiatives are no ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Animal Testing
Research on animals is important in understanding diseases and developing ways to prevent them. The polio vaccine, kidney transplants, and heart surgery techniques have all been developed with the hel ... y, research using primates has led to major medical breakthroughs, most notably in the treatment of polio and Rh disease. Vaccines have reduced the cases of polio in the U.S. from 58,000 to one or two ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Animal research and its importance
Research on animals is important in understanding diseases and developing ways to prevent them. The polio vaccine, kidney transplants, and heart surgery techniques have all been developed with the hel ... y, research using primates has led to major medical breakthroughs, most notably in the treatment of polio and Rh disease. Vaccines have reduced the cases of polio in the U.S. from 58,000 to one or two ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
HIV: Vaccine Resistance
t controversial theory states HIV developed from contaminated vaccines used in the immunization for polio. The polio vaccine is harvested using monkey kidneys that were contaminated by SIV. This is a ... peptides will trick the body into mounting an immune response against the infected cells. The Sabin polio vaccine uses this method to defeat the poliovirus. The vaccine contains a weakened version of ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Adult stem cells should replace embryonic ones.
n numerous scientific and medical discoveries over the years. Extraordinary discoveries such as the polio vaccine or penicillin have prevented epidemics such as small pox and polio. Yet, as advanced, ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology
Summary/ Pr
l Research Saves Human Lives" shows the benefits of using animals to test vaccinations, such as the polio vaccine. Sabin opens her article asking readers to recall a scene in the movie Forrest Gump wh ... earch of her late husband, Albert Sabin, that this scene may be the only thing we may recall of the polio epidemic. Sabin briefly talks about the fear young mothers experienced in the early 50's, and ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Animal Testing
Polio Vaccines
There are two polio vaccines that are used throughout the world today. There is the oral polio vaccine and the inj ... t that time. The vaccine was began testing in 1957 and was introduced to the world in 1962.The Oral Polio Vaccine was much more fit for the younger polio victims. Most polio victims were young childre ... it for the younger polio victims. Most polio victims were young children but most complication with polio was with the older people who had polio. Babies and young children must take their polio vacci ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Technology Ignited on Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradury
ght side. Actually this decade was rather productive with the inventions of the computer, Univac, a polio vaccine, and color television. Velcro, power-steering, and Mr. Potato Head were also a part of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Jonas Salk
was one of the most eminent figures in the field of medicine. Jonas Salk discovered the vaccine to poliomyelitis, more commonly referred to as polio. The potential of this viral disease was unbelieva ... otential of this viral disease was unbelievable and incomparable to any other disease in the 1950s. Polio was introduced in the United States in the early 1920s when it struck the United States Presid ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Polio
Castro, Christina M & W 7:15 October 15, 2014 Castro, Christina M & W 7:15 October 15, 2014 Polio"Polio or poliomyelitis is a disease caused by poliovirus. It can cause lifelong paralysis and ... adly" (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). While a plague to the human race for centuries, polio was never the devastating curse that other diseases, such as bubonic plague and smallpox, were ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases