For Minority Kids, No Room to Breathe

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-asthmachildren-ess.html

This article is about how more minority children are at more risk than white children dying from asthma. “If you look at inner-city children, they’re sensitized to more allergens and exposed to more allergens at higher levels in their homes, allergens that it’s difficult for them to avoid,” said Dr. Andrew Liu of the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver. Due to poor condition in their homes and schools they are more likely to have more attacks. And another factor why their asthma attacks are more critical is because the lack of outpatient medical treatment. this article persuades the reader because this article speaks to me personally. This is a problem that needs to be fixed but information is not being known. The solution is kind of simple because all you have to do is provide them with inhalers and good medical treatment if the family could not afford it.

Girls Are Often Neglected Victims of Concussions

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/sports/othersports/02concussions.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

This article talks about how girls are getting more concussions than boys. “Generally speaking, the medical profession does not do a very good job in recognizing that female athletes sustain concussions at an equal or even higher rate as males,” said Dr. Robert Cantu of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, one of the nation’s leading experts in concussion management. But studies have shown that the symptoms don't usually show and the girl(s) will usually keep playing. Doctors also feel that girls are more likely to report an injury that why they have numbers to back up their theories. We already know girls sports aren't taken serious so when the girls get hurt they are looked over. But girls are just as competive as boys. i feel that the writer is trying to persuade the readers because this topic is very important but highly looked over. Many people should read this because this is some vital information and could open peoples eyes to girl sports and their injuries.

Man Sues Over Stolen Bone Placed in Neck

Sep 26th, 2007 FORT WORTH, Texas -- A man who found out the bone implanted in his neck to relieve back pain was stolen from a corpse is suing a medical technology company and several tissue processing businesses, including two in Tennessee.
James Livingston, 44, of Weatherford, does not seek a specific monetary amount in his suit filed in New York last month against Minneapolis-based Medtronic Inc. for fraud and negligence.
Other defendants are Memphis, Tenn.-based Sofamor Danek Inc.; Knoxville, Tenn.-based Spinalgraft Technologies Inc.; Alachua, Fla.-based Regeneration Technologies Inc.; Fort Lee, N.J.-based Biomedical Tissue Services; Michael Mastromarino and Joseph Nicelli.
"How can you sell parts out of a body, just like parts from a stolen car?" Livingston said.
New York authorities believe Mastromarino, owner of now-defunct Biomedical Tissue Services, made deals with funeral directors to remove bones, tendons and heart valves from corpses without notifying their families or screening for disease. He has pleaded innocent to charges that include a felony punishable by up to 25 years in prison.

Its sad to hear that people are stealing bones and other parts of the body from dead people. this article is important because some people aren't aware that they could have a stolen bone or tissue in their body. Even though they did recall some of it and scanned some of the bones, a disease could have already been transmitted. It persuades the reader because the title is very eye catching.

Drugs Banned, Many of World’s Poor Suffer in Pain

Although the rainy season was coming on fast, Zainabu Sesay was in no shape to help her husband. Ditches had to be dug to protect their cassava and peanuts, and their mud hut’s palm roof was sliding off.But Mrs. Sesay was sick. She had breast cancer in a form that Western doctors rarely see anymore — the tumor had burst through her skin, looking like a putrid head of cauliflower weeping small amounts of blood at its edges.
“It bone! It booonnnne lie de fi-yuh!” she said of the pain — it burns like fire — in Krio, the blended language spoken in this country where British colonizers resettled freed slaves.
No one had directly told her yet, but there was no hope — the cancer was also in her lymph glands and ribs.
Like millions of others in the world’s poorest countries, she is destined to die in pain. She cannot get the drug she needs — one that is cheap, effective, perfectly legal for medical uses under treaties signed by virtually every country, made in large quantities, and has been around since Hippocrates praised its source, the opium poppy. She cannot get morphine.

With all the money America has, you think they would help poor countries. Its sad that we spend money on some of the useless things when some people in other countries are dying. I think its time for America to step up help since they say that we are the volunteer country.