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Open Question: Does anyone else have a congenital bicuspid aorta valve?

November 12th, 2008 | by admin | Open Question: ANIMAL MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION??????????? pleasee helpp? [debate project] ?
We are AGAINST animal MEDICAL experimentation in our debate project
and would like to know some peoples’ opinions on quotes from an
article that is FOR animal medical experimentation.
what would you say to these:
1. “Some people also argue that animal research is no longer necessary
because modern technology can replace the use of animals…However,
many factors affecting both human and animal lives can only be studied
using research animals. The use of research animals has been and will
continue to be essential to finding the causes and cures for many
diseases.
2. Rats are valuable research subjects because their body systems are
similar to humans and other animals in many respects. The animals are
also susceptible to many of the diseases that affect humans…whenever
surgery is performed, anesthesia is used.
3. Research involving animals has helped identify the causes of high
blood pressure and develop more effective drugs to control the
problems. Other research has resulted in treatments for strokes and
heart attacks that save thousands of lives and reduce recovery time.
4. Dogs have been especially important to researchers who developed
open-heart surgery, pacemakers, and heart transplants. These
techniques have revolutionized the therapy for people who have severe
heart disease.
5. According to Dr. Joseph Murray, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for
Medicine, “There would not be a single person alive today as a result
of organ transplant or bone-marrow transplant without animal
experimentation.”
My partner and I really need some different perspectives against/for
these quotes and would like to know the many opinions on animal
medical experimentation. We are against it for this debate.
thanks in advance ;]

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:39:45 GMT
Open Question: Does anyone else have a congenital bicuspid aorta valve?
I was diagnosed with this at age 54 because of a heart murmur that was heard during a physical. I want to know what preventive care I should be taking. What have others with this condition been told by their doctors?

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:02:22 GMT