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 * __No Pulse Heart__**

I found this article very interesting and learned a lot about hearts and how hard it is to get a donor organ that is suitable for a transplant. The reason this no pulse heart was created was to take away the need for donor hearts. To get a suitable heart for transplant, a perfectly healthy person must somehow die without injuring their heart. This causes the amount of donor hearts to be very low and creates a long waiting list. The no pulse heart is an answer to this problem. It is made of very long lasting and durable materials that can also be cut and sculpted in surgery if needed. The part of this heart that I find amazing is the fact that it has no lub-dub pulse that we are familiar with. Instead, the man-made heart sends a constant flow of blood throughout the body. This constant flow fixes the main problem with and artificial heart, longevity. If scientists tried to replicate the lub-dub effect of our natural heart, it would not last very long and break down more easily. This heart is a huge improvement to the heart and lung machine that was previously used. The heart and lung machine was a huge machine that would take up half a room and would not allow the patient to live, only exist. This no pulse heart is about the size of a human heart, fits inside the body and only needs a small battery pack that can be held in a shoulder holster. The technology that people are creating today is insane. We not have artificial hearts that provide life without a pulse and things that can act as a “cast to the heart” and can be taken out later. There is no wonder why people say that this generation has a good Chance of living past 100 years old.


 * __Medical Marijuana__**

After reading the Top 10 Pros and Cons of Medical Marijuana, I feel that it should be used and that the Pros outweigh the Cons. Many off the Cons of Medical Marijuana, as stated in this article, have something to do with a lack of scientific information and the side effects of the drug. These two points are easy to dismiss. You can have clinical trials to provide more scientific information, and one must realize, that __Any__ drug that you allow into your system will come along with side effects. The side effects related to Medical Marijuana, (damages to the brain, heart, lungs, and immune system) seem miniscule to the amount and severity of some of the other already legal drugs that are advertised on television daily. The Pros provide “relief of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer, and AIDS, or the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can be done with remarkable safety… Marijuana is less toxic then many of the drugs that physicians prescribe daily.” From the Pros of this article, Medical marijuana seems to be a less intense, safer form of morphine that can be used to treat everything from headaches to AIDS and cancer. I believe that with more clinical studies and research, Medical Marijuana can be regulated and be normal everyday drug prescribed by physicians.

I think what the parents in Philadelphia are doing is very noble and a good cause but there has to be a line drawn somewhere. Having parents picket and boycott stores to keep children away seems a little extreme. Yes, obesity and being overweight are problems that many American children face every day but people have to understand that you cannot keep a kid from eating candy or drinking soda. Personally I believe that we should be worried more about the exercise portion, not the calorie intake. Calories are not evil things that build up on your sides and make you fat. They are only energy and when you don’t use the energy you consume your body stores it for later. I’m not saying that it would hurt for children to eat less candy and soda but if they use the energy that they consume from those kinds of foods it would not be as large of a problem. This reminds me of when they tried to stop stores in New York from selling oversized drinks. You cannot change the habits and lifestyles of people by forcing them to buy/not buy a product. They have to want and constantly work towards the change themselves. One thing that they are doing right in Philadelphia is that they are trying to teach the young children right from wrong so that they don’t develop theses habits at all.
 * __ Philadelphia School Battles Students’ Bad Eating Habits, on Campus and Off __**