Cardiology
For this assignment, I chose Medicine as my main topic and within medicine there are many important fields of study, buy none is more important than cardiology. Cardiology is the medical study of the structure, function, and disorders of the heart. For my career path, I definitely want to pursue this field, because every since I was little, I wanted to learn more and more about the heart and its functions. I was very intrigued by the studies of the heart, which has lead me wanting to pursue the field of cardiology. I chose to talk about three main journals, which highlighted many important facts about the heart and its functions that in my opinion and that most people need to know to about in our world.
The first article I read was titled “Chronic heart failure” from the journal, The Lancet written by Gregg C Fonarow. In this article, efficacy and safety of the statin rosuvastatin in patients with heart failure was investigated. There was an experiment done in which, 326 patients of ages 18 yrs. or older with chronic heart failure were enrolled into New York Heart Association. These individuals were given placebos, which have no pharmacological effect, but given to satisfy a patient, who supposes it to be a medicine. As long as the patient think there taking medicine that is helping them get better, they will continue to use it, even though its all in their head about the medicines effects, in this case it’s the placebos, which have no pharmaceutical association with real medicine. There were two groups, one was given placebos and one was given normal medicine over the course of one year. The findings showed that both groups had similar recovery patterns, even though one of the groups wasn’t given any real medicine at all. When I read this I was alarmed, because I could never think that a placebo could potentially serve as real medicine. So, from reading this article I definitely got a different understanding on how even placebos can serve as real medicine, when it comes to heart associated illnesses.
The second article, I read was titled “Sudden cardiac arrest associated with early repolarization”, from the journal The New England Journal of Medicine written by Nicolas derval. From reading this article, I learned that early repolarization is a common electrocardiographic finding that is generally considered to be benign. What this means is that if you have repolarization the early stages of this disease are very gentle and non- harming, but as time goes by this disease becomes very harmful. This article also explains that in an experiment in which there were 206 case subjects at 22 centers who were resuscitated after cardiac arrest and these individuals were reviewed and there was data taken from the conditions they were in. The control group consisted of 412 subjects without heart disease, who were matched for age, sex, race, and level of physical activity. Results showed that early repolarization was more frequent in case subjects with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation than in control subjects. Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation is a condition in which there is uncoordinated contraction of the cardiac muscle of the ventricles in the heart, making them tremble rather than contract properly.
Among the individuals studied, those with early repolarization were more likely to be male and to have a history of syncope or sudden cardiac arrest during sleep than those without early repolarization. So, after reading this article, I learned about early repolarization and how it can affect the heart.
The third article, I read was titled “Risk Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease”, from the journal, The American Journal of Cardiology, written by Kevin McGeechan MBiostat. In this article, I learned that recent studies showed that retinal vascular signs like quantitative retinal vascular caliber were associated with increased risk of incident coronary heart disease. Also, I learned how retinal vascular caliber added to the prediction of coronary heart disease. The study in this article restricted its individuals to people without diabetes, because current treatment guidelines for the prevention of CHD conclude that people with diabetes have high risk of damage, when conducting the
“Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease” study. So, if we can predict coronary heart diseases very early in their development the chances of curing these diseases can greatly increase, because we will be able to kill these viruses, while their still maturing.
So, in conclusion I talked about three main journals, which highlighted many important facts about the heart and its functions that in my opinion and that most people need to know to about in our world. After reading these articles, my understanding of how the heart functions has greatly increased. I learned terms in this article that I never knew and wouldn’t have learned in years until I went to medical school. From reading these articles, I was even more inspired to learn about all the functions of the human heart.
Work-Cited
American Journal of Psychiatry, 178(19), 1276-55. Retrieved November 3, 2008, from
Research Library database. (Document ID:1654500841).
Chronic heart failure. The Lancet written by Gregg C Fonarow, 177(4), 182-87. Retrieved
November 3, 2008, from research library database. (Document ID: 1374188844).
“Sudden cardiac arrest associated with early repolarization”, from the journal
The New England Journal of Medicine written by Nicolas derval.
“Risk Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease”, from the journal
The American Journal of Cardiology, written by Kevin McGeechan Mbiostat
Research Library database. (Document ID:13254532123).
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Module III- My revisions from the Rough draft to the final draft
After I looked at how people responded to my rough draft, I decided to change up a few things to improve the quality of the paper. I changed up quite a few things from my rough draft. Since, I had already written the paper in the rough draft, I had a solid foundation to work with. I made some grammatical changes in the paragraphs, because many different people told me that I needed to fix the grammar, so I took their advice and I did my best to make as many positive grammatical changes as I could.
In this paper I had also many run on sentences in the rough draft and I had very long sentences, so I did my best to fix those minor problems, while still trying to keep the paper flow nicely from sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph. I had already put in many facts into the rough draft, but I still decided to insert more information into the final draft to provide as much positive and negative information as I could to the reader that I learned from doing this paper.
In my final draft, I fixed added some definitions to words that otherwise would be hard to understand. I also changed up my thesis statement, so people could agree or disagree with it, before it was just a one sided statement in my rough draft. In my final draft, I also added in my thesis statement to my conclusion. I also created a word-cited page, which I didn’t have in my rough draft. So, these were the main changes that I made to make my final essay way better than the rough draft.
In this paper I had also many run on sentences in the rough draft and I had very long sentences, so I did my best to fix those minor problems, while still trying to keep the paper flow nicely from sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph. I had already put in many facts into the rough draft, but I still decided to insert more information into the final draft to provide as much positive and negative information as I could to the reader that I learned from doing this paper.
In my final draft, I fixed added some definitions to words that otherwise would be hard to understand. I also changed up my thesis statement, so people could agree or disagree with it, before it was just a one sided statement in my rough draft. In my final draft, I also added in my thesis statement to my conclusion. I also created a word-cited page, which I didn’t have in my rough draft. So, these were the main changes that I made to make my final essay way better than the rough draft.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Module III first draft
Cardiology
For this assignment I chose Medicine as my main topic and within medicine there are many important field of study, buy none is more important than cardiology. Cardiology is the medical study of the structure, function, and disorders of the heart. For my career path I definitely want to pursue this field, because every since I was little I wanted to learn more and more about the heart and its functions. I was very intrigued by the studies of the heart and that is why today, I want to pursue the field of cardiology.
I chose to talk about three main journals, which highlighted many important facts about the heart and its functions.
The first article I read was titled “Chronic heart failure” from the journal, The Lancet written by Gregg C Fonarow. In this article, efficacy and safety of the statin rosuvastatin in patients with heart failure was investigated. There was an experiment done in which, 326 patients of ages 18 yrs. Or older with chronic heart failure were enrolled into New York Heart Association. These individuals were given placebo’s, which has no pharmacological effect, but given to satisfy a patient, who supposes it to be a medicine. As long as the patient think there taking medicine that is helping them get better, they will continue to use it, even though its all in their head about the medicines effects, in this case it’s the placebo’s, which have no pharmaceutical association with real medicine. There were two groups one was given placebo’s and one was given normal medicine over the course of a year. The findings showed that both groups had similar recovery patterns even though one of the groups wasn’t given any real medicine at all. When I read this I was alarmed, because I could never think that a placebo could potentially serve as real medicine. So, from reading this article I definitely got a different understanding on how even placebos can serve as real medicine, when it comes to heart associated illnesses.
The second article, I read was titled “Sudden cardiac arrest associated with early repolarization”, from the journal The New England Journal of Medicine written by Nicolas derval. From reading this article, I learned that early repolarization is a common electrocardiographic finding that is generally considered to be benign. What this means is that if you have repolarization the early stages of this disease are very gentle and non- harming, but as time goes by this disease becomes very harmful. This article also explains that in an experiment in which, there were 206 case subjects at 22 centers who were resuscitated after cardiac arrest and these individuals were reviewed and there was data taken from the conditions they were in. The control group consisted of 412 subjects without heart disease, who were matched for age, sex, race, and level of physical activity. Results showed that early repolarization was more frequent in case subjects with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation than in control subjects. Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation is a condition in which there is uncoordinated contraction of the cardiac muscle of the ventricles in the heart, making them tremble rather than contract properly.
Among the individuals studied, those with early repolarization were more likely to be male and to have a history of syncope or sudden cardiac arrest during sleep than those without early repolarization. So, after reading this article, I learned about early repolarization and how it can affect the heart.
The third article, I read was titled “Risk Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease”, from the journal, The American Journal of Cardiology, written by Kevin McGeechan MBiostat. In this article, I learned that recent studies showed that retinal vascular signs like quantitative retinal vascular caliber were associated with increased risk of incident coronary heart disease. Also, learned how retinal vascular caliber added to the prediction of coronary heart disease. The study in this article restricted its individuals to people without diabetes, because current treatment guidelines for the prevention of CHD conclude that people with diabetes have high risk of damage when conducting the
“Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease” study .So, if we can predict coronary heart diseases very early in their development the chances of curing these diseases can greatly increase, because we will be able to kill these viruses, while their still maturing.
So, in conclusion after reading these articles my understanding of how the heart functions has greatly increased. I learned terms in this article that I never knew and wouldn’t have learned in years until I went to medical school. From reading these articles, I was even more inspired to learn even more about all the functions of the human heart.
For this assignment I chose Medicine as my main topic and within medicine there are many important field of study, buy none is more important than cardiology. Cardiology is the medical study of the structure, function, and disorders of the heart. For my career path I definitely want to pursue this field, because every since I was little I wanted to learn more and more about the heart and its functions. I was very intrigued by the studies of the heart and that is why today, I want to pursue the field of cardiology.
I chose to talk about three main journals, which highlighted many important facts about the heart and its functions.
The first article I read was titled “Chronic heart failure” from the journal, The Lancet written by Gregg C Fonarow. In this article, efficacy and safety of the statin rosuvastatin in patients with heart failure was investigated. There was an experiment done in which, 326 patients of ages 18 yrs. Or older with chronic heart failure were enrolled into New York Heart Association. These individuals were given placebo’s, which has no pharmacological effect, but given to satisfy a patient, who supposes it to be a medicine. As long as the patient think there taking medicine that is helping them get better, they will continue to use it, even though its all in their head about the medicines effects, in this case it’s the placebo’s, which have no pharmaceutical association with real medicine. There were two groups one was given placebo’s and one was given normal medicine over the course of a year. The findings showed that both groups had similar recovery patterns even though one of the groups wasn’t given any real medicine at all. When I read this I was alarmed, because I could never think that a placebo could potentially serve as real medicine. So, from reading this article I definitely got a different understanding on how even placebos can serve as real medicine, when it comes to heart associated illnesses.
The second article, I read was titled “Sudden cardiac arrest associated with early repolarization”, from the journal The New England Journal of Medicine written by Nicolas derval. From reading this article, I learned that early repolarization is a common electrocardiographic finding that is generally considered to be benign. What this means is that if you have repolarization the early stages of this disease are very gentle and non- harming, but as time goes by this disease becomes very harmful. This article also explains that in an experiment in which, there were 206 case subjects at 22 centers who were resuscitated after cardiac arrest and these individuals were reviewed and there was data taken from the conditions they were in. The control group consisted of 412 subjects without heart disease, who were matched for age, sex, race, and level of physical activity. Results showed that early repolarization was more frequent in case subjects with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation than in control subjects. Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation is a condition in which there is uncoordinated contraction of the cardiac muscle of the ventricles in the heart, making them tremble rather than contract properly.
Among the individuals studied, those with early repolarization were more likely to be male and to have a history of syncope or sudden cardiac arrest during sleep than those without early repolarization. So, after reading this article, I learned about early repolarization and how it can affect the heart.
The third article, I read was titled “Risk Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease”, from the journal, The American Journal of Cardiology, written by Kevin McGeechan MBiostat. In this article, I learned that recent studies showed that retinal vascular signs like quantitative retinal vascular caliber were associated with increased risk of incident coronary heart disease. Also, learned how retinal vascular caliber added to the prediction of coronary heart disease. The study in this article restricted its individuals to people without diabetes, because current treatment guidelines for the prevention of CHD conclude that people with diabetes have high risk of damage when conducting the
“Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease” study .So, if we can predict coronary heart diseases very early in their development the chances of curing these diseases can greatly increase, because we will be able to kill these viruses, while their still maturing.
So, in conclusion after reading these articles my understanding of how the heart functions has greatly increased. I learned terms in this article that I never knew and wouldn’t have learned in years until I went to medical school. From reading these articles, I was even more inspired to learn even more about all the functions of the human heart.
Friday, October 31, 2008
A 500-word blog post that responds to another article
MySpace and Facebook
The article that I chose to do my blog entry on was MySpace and Facebook: Applying the Uses and Gratifications Theory to Exploring Friend-Networking Sites. By reading this article I learned many things. Most importantly I learned how MySpace and Facebook have changed the lives of millions of people of all ages. Before friend networking websites existed, mostly everyone used emails and instant messaging for.
The article points out that MySpace and Facebook are two friend-networking that are very important in the lives of high school and college students. It has been estimated that MySpace has over20 million registered users, with a sign-up rate of over 230,000 users per day, 7 and Facebook was estimated to have approximately 9.5 million users as
Of September 2006.8 these networking sites have number of features that allow individuals to communicate with others. Both of these sites allows its users to post information about them, post pictures, and leave messages for friends. These sites allow their users many different styles of communication. The different types of communication are very important; because they keep the young generation entertained and if you can keep their attention then your business will prosper.
The article talks about how there was a study done on a group of students in which when students arriving to the study section, they were given a two-part packet to complete. The first page contained only one question, “Do you have a My-Space or Facebook account? Students responded by checking yes or no to this question.
Part I of the packet was filled out by students who had MySpace or Facebook. There were four sections in this part. Section 1 asked the students general questions about how long they had been involved in these sites. In section 2 students were asked to for what reasons did they use the sites. In section 3 students why doesn’t everyone have accounts on these sites? The fourth and final section of Part I obtained information including sex, age, and ethnicity.
Part II of the packet, completed by students didn’t have MySpace or Facebook account, also contained four sections. Section 1 asked students general information about why they did not have a MySpace or Facebook account. Section 2 had students indicate the reasons for not having an account, for example was it because they didn’t have many friends? In section 3, students were asked to predict why other students would have accounts on these sites. The final section of Part II obtained information, including sex, age, and ethnicity.
The results of the study indicated that 87.1% of students said they had a friend-networking account online. The article states that because of spring semester there was an increase in the number of participants having accounts and that the same study conducted with primarily freshman in the fall semester would have lower percentage. Most students said that they had had their accounts for 7 to 24 months, extending back past the start of the fall semester. The article also states that it is impossible to note the number of college students using these sites and the amount of time per day students spend on these friend-networking sites. Overall, results suggest students spend almost 3hours per day either on their accounts or someone else’s account.
The article that I chose to do my blog entry on was MySpace and Facebook: Applying the Uses and Gratifications Theory to Exploring Friend-Networking Sites. By reading this article I learned many things. Most importantly I learned how MySpace and Facebook have changed the lives of millions of people of all ages. Before friend networking websites existed, mostly everyone used emails and instant messaging for.
The article points out that MySpace and Facebook are two friend-networking that are very important in the lives of high school and college students. It has been estimated that MySpace has over20 million registered users, with a sign-up rate of over 230,000 users per day, 7 and Facebook was estimated to have approximately 9.5 million users as
Of September 2006.8 these networking sites have number of features that allow individuals to communicate with others. Both of these sites allows its users to post information about them, post pictures, and leave messages for friends. These sites allow their users many different styles of communication. The different types of communication are very important; because they keep the young generation entertained and if you can keep their attention then your business will prosper.
The article talks about how there was a study done on a group of students in which when students arriving to the study section, they were given a two-part packet to complete. The first page contained only one question, “Do you have a My-Space or Facebook account? Students responded by checking yes or no to this question.
Part I of the packet was filled out by students who had MySpace or Facebook. There were four sections in this part. Section 1 asked the students general questions about how long they had been involved in these sites. In section 2 students were asked to for what reasons did they use the sites. In section 3 students why doesn’t everyone have accounts on these sites? The fourth and final section of Part I obtained information including sex, age, and ethnicity.
Part II of the packet, completed by students didn’t have MySpace or Facebook account, also contained four sections. Section 1 asked students general information about why they did not have a MySpace or Facebook account. Section 2 had students indicate the reasons for not having an account, for example was it because they didn’t have many friends? In section 3, students were asked to predict why other students would have accounts on these sites. The final section of Part II obtained information, including sex, age, and ethnicity.
The results of the study indicated that 87.1% of students said they had a friend-networking account online. The article states that because of spring semester there was an increase in the number of participants having accounts and that the same study conducted with primarily freshman in the fall semester would have lower percentage. Most students said that they had had their accounts for 7 to 24 months, extending back past the start of the fall semester. The article also states that it is impossible to note the number of college students using these sites and the amount of time per day students spend on these friend-networking sites. Overall, results suggest students spend almost 3hours per day either on their accounts or someone else’s account.
Work Cited MLA format
Work Cited
"Cell Phones." 30 Oct. 2008 .
"Cell Phones." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 26 Oct 2008, 07:33 UTC. 30 Oct 2008
.
Glorias, Shaebudia. “Cell phone users say friendships are maintained in the long run by communication.”
Democraticandchronicle.com. 28 August 2005. <
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/ pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20050828/cellphones/280335/1001>.
“Is the Cell Phone Undermining the Social Order?: Understanding Mobile Technology from a Sociological Perspective”
Hans Geser
Inc. 1 Apr. 2008. 30 Oct. 2008
"Cell Phones." 30 Oct. 2008 .
"Cell Phones." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 26 Oct 2008, 07:33 UTC. 30 Oct 2008
Glorias, Shaebudia. “Cell phone users say friendships are maintained in the long run by communication.”
Democraticandchronicle.com. 28 August 2005. <
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/ pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20050828/cellphones/280335/1001>.
“Is the Cell Phone Undermining the Social Order?: Understanding Mobile Technology from a Sociological Perspective”
Hans Geser
Inc. 1 Apr. 2008. 30 Oct. 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
ModuleII Essay
Cell Phones
Cellular phones have been on the market for over 14 years and the cellular Telephone Industry Association (CTIA) estimates over 51 million users across the country. Due to the tremendous increase in popularity of cellular phones, many questions are surfacing concerning safety, health and environmental issues. Cell phones are a very important part of our society today. Everyone from students, businessmen to a stay at home mom rely heavily on cell phones every single day to insure protection of their families, friends and businesses. Cell phones give us many advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion cell phones do more good for our civilization than bad.
According to Hans Geser Cell phones have not interested many sociologists are trying to disconnect us from the social part of what life has to offer. “The telephone has interested very few sociologists, because it is too exclusively connected with the very lowest level of social life” said, Hans Geser. This is a very strong point that Geser made because no longer do we have to meet face to face with people in order to discuss potential business deals or just to keep in touch with people in our communities. We have become so reliant on cell phones that we no longer for the most part go to people’s houses to talk with them or discuss business matters; we just make phone calls and do everything over the phone. So where is the social face to face conservation that enhances the communication between different individuals?
Today million dollar investments and deals are made right over the phone with people from different countries. Businessmen exchange million’s of dollars without even looking at the face of whom there trading with. All they know is that the company does very well in that particular country, so they just invest in it. If things keep going as they are, then one day we may not have any social gatherings at all, because it is so convenient to do everything over the phone, and saving time.
One of the advantages of cell phones discussed in the article by Hens Geser, says that Cell phones have strengthened ties among people. “Despite its technical capacity for making any individuals immediately accessible to each other, the phone has nevertheless contributed to strengthening ties among people already familiar with each other” said Hens Geser. I agree with this statement made by Geser, because with the help of Phones people, who already know each other can talk with one another everyday to maintain strong bonds of relationship with one another. It is because of phones that relatives from different countries and Maintain a strong bond with one another by talking to each other everyday. I am originally from India, when my family moved here 8 years ago, we left behind many relatives of ours. We were able to keep in touch with them by using phones, without hearing our relative’s voices; we may have lost touch with them over all these years. So from my opinion cell phones do more good for our communities than bad.
Most media reports would have you believe that research studies on the negative health effects of cell phones use are few and far between. Many reports on the health risks of cell phones have been published over the last few decades. A study led by Dr Agarwal, Ph.D summarizes some of the researched health consequences of the microwave radiation we are exposed to through cell phone use. “Cell phones expose humans to wavelengths at very dangerous levels that could ultimately result in human DNA strand breaks and also in the reduction of melatonin, which is a hormone produced in the brain by the pineal gland from the amino acid tryptophan” Dr Agarwal Ph.D.
The use of cell phones has also been related to Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named for German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive and fatal brain disease as many as 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer's destroys brain cells, causing problems with memory, thinking and behavior severe enough to affect work, lifelong hobbies or social life. Alzheimer’s gets worse over time, and it is fatal. Today it is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. So, cell phones even with all the advantages they offer humans can be very destructive to the human body.
Cell phones are very important in our society and will remain important for many years to come, because they have much to offer to the human race. Adults and Students of all ages today are already very amused by cell phones, because they allow many different forms of communications with one another. Not only can we use the phones to talk with one another, but today we can also text messages back and forth with one another saving time. It is just not the teenagers that use texting to drastic measures, but also the adults today that manage many businesses or have many responsibilities also use texting on drastic measures to insure the safety of their businesses, families and friends. Essentially in my opinion everything breaks down to saving time and efficiency. Cell phones offer both and that’s why they are so popular within our society and will remain important for generations to come.
So, in conclusion cell phones offer many advantages and disadvantages to humans. But if we can overlook some of the defaults in the cell phones, we will see that life without cell phones wouldn’t be the same. In our society today everything if about saving time and cell phones allow us to save time and have communication with anyone from anywhere. This is exactly why cell phones will remain in our lives until the day we die and will be passed on to oncoming generations. Cell phone is a device that has been created with no end. So, overall in my opinion cell phones do more good for humans than bad.
Cellular phones have been on the market for over 14 years and the cellular Telephone Industry Association (CTIA) estimates over 51 million users across the country. Due to the tremendous increase in popularity of cellular phones, many questions are surfacing concerning safety, health and environmental issues. Cell phones are a very important part of our society today. Everyone from students, businessmen to a stay at home mom rely heavily on cell phones every single day to insure protection of their families, friends and businesses. Cell phones give us many advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion cell phones do more good for our civilization than bad.
According to Hans Geser Cell phones have not interested many sociologists are trying to disconnect us from the social part of what life has to offer. “The telephone has interested very few sociologists, because it is too exclusively connected with the very lowest level of social life” said, Hans Geser. This is a very strong point that Geser made because no longer do we have to meet face to face with people in order to discuss potential business deals or just to keep in touch with people in our communities. We have become so reliant on cell phones that we no longer for the most part go to people’s houses to talk with them or discuss business matters; we just make phone calls and do everything over the phone. So where is the social face to face conservation that enhances the communication between different individuals?
Today million dollar investments and deals are made right over the phone with people from different countries. Businessmen exchange million’s of dollars without even looking at the face of whom there trading with. All they know is that the company does very well in that particular country, so they just invest in it. If things keep going as they are, then one day we may not have any social gatherings at all, because it is so convenient to do everything over the phone, and saving time.
One of the advantages of cell phones discussed in the article by Hens Geser, says that Cell phones have strengthened ties among people. “Despite its technical capacity for making any individuals immediately accessible to each other, the phone has nevertheless contributed to strengthening ties among people already familiar with each other” said Hens Geser. I agree with this statement made by Geser, because with the help of Phones people, who already know each other can talk with one another everyday to maintain strong bonds of relationship with one another. It is because of phones that relatives from different countries and Maintain a strong bond with one another by talking to each other everyday. I am originally from India, when my family moved here 8 years ago, we left behind many relatives of ours. We were able to keep in touch with them by using phones, without hearing our relative’s voices; we may have lost touch with them over all these years. So from my opinion cell phones do more good for our communities than bad.
Most media reports would have you believe that research studies on the negative health effects of cell phones use are few and far between. Many reports on the health risks of cell phones have been published over the last few decades. A study led by Dr Agarwal, Ph.D summarizes some of the researched health consequences of the microwave radiation we are exposed to through cell phone use. “Cell phones expose humans to wavelengths at very dangerous levels that could ultimately result in human DNA strand breaks and also in the reduction of melatonin, which is a hormone produced in the brain by the pineal gland from the amino acid tryptophan” Dr Agarwal Ph.D.
The use of cell phones has also been related to Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named for German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive and fatal brain disease as many as 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer's destroys brain cells, causing problems with memory, thinking and behavior severe enough to affect work, lifelong hobbies or social life. Alzheimer’s gets worse over time, and it is fatal. Today it is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. So, cell phones even with all the advantages they offer humans can be very destructive to the human body.
Cell phones are very important in our society and will remain important for many years to come, because they have much to offer to the human race. Adults and Students of all ages today are already very amused by cell phones, because they allow many different forms of communications with one another. Not only can we use the phones to talk with one another, but today we can also text messages back and forth with one another saving time. It is just not the teenagers that use texting to drastic measures, but also the adults today that manage many businesses or have many responsibilities also use texting on drastic measures to insure the safety of their businesses, families and friends. Essentially in my opinion everything breaks down to saving time and efficiency. Cell phones offer both and that’s why they are so popular within our society and will remain important for generations to come.
So, in conclusion cell phones offer many advantages and disadvantages to humans. But if we can overlook some of the defaults in the cell phones, we will see that life without cell phones wouldn’t be the same. In our society today everything if about saving time and cell phones allow us to save time and have communication with anyone from anywhere. This is exactly why cell phones will remain in our lives until the day we die and will be passed on to oncoming generations. Cell phone is a device that has been created with no end. So, overall in my opinion cell phones do more good for humans than bad.
ModuleII Questions
Questions
• According to the article, how do most Teachers and people of our communities feel about Cell phones? Why do they feel this way? Do you believe cell phone addiction can occur that causes people to use cell phones from the classrooms every minute of the class?
• Should cell phones be banned on the roads, when people are driving, because they are hazardous to our communities well being?
• According to the article, what are the advantages and disadvantages of Cell phones; do you agree or disagree?
• Explain how cell phones have kept you in contact with others. Explain why you prefer to use cell phones over other ways of communication for keeping in touch with certain people?
My question for the paper: According to the article, what are the advantages and disadvantages of cell phones; do you agree or disagree?
• According to the article, how do most Teachers and people of our communities feel about Cell phones? Why do they feel this way? Do you believe cell phone addiction can occur that causes people to use cell phones from the classrooms every minute of the class?
• Should cell phones be banned on the roads, when people are driving, because they are hazardous to our communities well being?
• According to the article, what are the advantages and disadvantages of Cell phones; do you agree or disagree?
• Explain how cell phones have kept you in contact with others. Explain why you prefer to use cell phones over other ways of communication for keeping in touch with certain people?
My question for the paper: According to the article, what are the advantages and disadvantages of cell phones; do you agree or disagree?
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