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  • March 23, 2021
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Evolutionary Advance?

Numerous folks have chosen dentistry as a occupation. The Division of Public Health and Community Dentistry is charged with providing future leaders with the skills necessary to care for a community as well as individuals within the community. Through our teaching program, research program, and community service our Division continues to meet this challenge. Oriental medicine programs that result in certification, like the certificate in Chinese herbal medicine (CCHM), are often offered as a post-graduate course to licensed acupuncture practitioners interested in enhancing credentials and education in herbology. I don’t recall exactly the name, but I recall watching a series of documentaries about how biblical stories reflect observations made by people of that age, however did not have the understanding of things as we do today, so described these events in a way which made sense to them at that time with their understandings. The Chinese have their own view … Read the rest

General Health
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  • August 5, 2020
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Evolutionary Advance?

Lagos is a port city located in South West corner of Nigeria. I personally have no religious preference. I’m not trying to promote either Creationism or Evolution’s explanation of earth’s origins. I simply think it would be wise to know exactly what goes on in scientific research, instead of blindly listening to whatever the scientific community says. Learn why they make the judgements they do. How do they determine evidence? What consists of a logical hypothesis? It’s all about philosophy, the philosophy of science; because as long as it is humans who are doing the scientific research, some element of human logic and human philosophy is going to have to be applied to find meaning to scientific findings. Therefore science is dependent upon the study of such things as logic and philosophy simply because understanding the human mind is dependent upon logic and philosophy. You can’t have science without a … Read the rest

Clinical Dentistry
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  • June 25, 2020
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Evolutionary Advance?

Oriental Medicine (OM) is a traditional Chinese medical practice that is based on the concept of balanced flow of energy through human bodies. My own doctoral dissertation—Human Replay: A Theory of the Evolution of Media (1979)—in a sense took McLuhan’s observation that electronic media recall oral patterns of communication and turned it into a theory that media become more natural, less artificial, more human, as they evolve. Fluoroscopy is a valuable imaging tool used frequently in orthopaedic surgery. This is composed of an X-ray tube, an image intensifier, a collimator and a display. Given the associated risks from radiation exposure, it is important to encourage surgical teams during set-up to adhere to protocols that limit this as much as possible 16 Many factors are known to reduce the level of radiation exposure including correct positioning of the c-arm and personal protective equipment (PPE) usage 16 Tremains et al. found evidence … Read the rest

Physiology
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