/library/oar/handle/123456789/44511 2025-12-29T10:55:53Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/44577 Title: Chronic venous insufficiency Authors: Zammit, Anthony Abstract: Chronic Venous insufficiency (CVI) is a common disease with significant morbidity that results from venous hypertension of the extremities. Increased perfusion pressure probably traps excessive numbers of white blood cells in the capillaries. 2006-07-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/44576 Title: The scars of Venus : part 2 Authors: Carabot, Philip Abstract: Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are very common, with an estimated 330 million new cases yearly. They are the cause of serious morbidity (e. g. pelvic inflammatory disease, tubal infertility and ectopic pregnancies), as well as congenital and neonatal complications and even death. 2006-07-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/44575 Title: Stem cell research and cloning Abstract: The ethical problems with stem cell research are reserved for so-called embryonic stem cell research, There are sources of embryonic stem cells that are available from cord blood (collected from a cut umbilical cord just after delivery) which do not present any problems. The problem arises when researchers harvest stem cells by the destruction of the human embryo. Stem cells are naturally available as tissue found in the embryo in the fIrst few days of development. Unfortunately these cells may only be obtained by the destruction of the embryo itself or by inhibiting the normal development of totipotent cells into an embryo. Some justify this as a necessary price to pay for research to proceed, others argue that spare embryos left over from 'in vitro', fertilization would die anyway, so it would be better to get some positive benefit out of them, before they become worthless. Whichever way one looks at this, two facts are indisputable. The first is, that human life is being used for research purposes and destroyed in the process. The second is, that human beings are being commodified on an increased scale and being rendered an object of financial and economic gain, the demand will increase the supply! 2006-07-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/44571 Title: Keeping up with the (Dow) Joneses : a turbulent start to the third millennium Abstract: The Dow Jones Industrial Average was first published on May 26, 1896. That same year the modern Olympics began in Athens and it is incidental that both the Olympics and the Dow, in their respective fields, are a professional measurement of performance. 2006-07-01T00:00:00Z