Food and Drug Administration

competition and ultimately convincing them of buying their product. On the other hand, some organizations use this method of communication to send a powerful message to the audience about issues concerning society. In this case, the United States Food and Drug Administration produced a commercial to send a message about how powerful the addiction for cigarettes is. The commercial is called “Bully” and is one of the many similar commercials of “The Real Cost” campaign which purpose is to reduce…

Type A and type B tularemia have similar signs and symptoms that seem nonspecific until after the incubation period. Tularemia is presented as an illness that includes symptoms such as chills, headache, muscular pains, and fever and skin ulceration. However after the incubation period, people infected with the bacteria will develop 1 to 6 different clinical symptoms depending on the portal of entry. Typically the incubation period falls anywhere between 1 to 21 days, however symptoms…

more people will die from obesity than starvation. While we are producing more food, many view obesity as a choice that occurs from cultural practices that are passed down from generation to generation. However this isn’t the case. The rise of obesity began when major food corporations started to use cheaper unhealthy products, like corn syrup, to make their food. In a way to combat and show how these processed foods affect health, the 1977 McGovern report tried to warn legislation but with the…

Counseling Abused Children Child abuse and treatment for child abuse are multifaceted. Categories of maltreatment discussed are: physical abuse, emotional abuse, physical neglect, criminal domestic violence, substance abuse, medical neglect, homelessness, sexual abuse, and educational neglect. Specific treatment needs and approaches for those needs were clearly identified. Therapists who counsel children who have been abused have many interventions to choose from. This paper addresses…

Before the passing of the American Food and Drugs act, the company convinced consumers to buy their product through dishonest scare tactics and misleading home tests. They made such claims as “one half of all deaths are the result of kidney disease” and if the audience was in doubt, offered a “simple at home test” which required that the audience put “morning urine in a a glass … for twenty-four hours … If it is then milky or cloudy…

Science, chemical and big name companies had done hazardous experiments with the consumers food without the world’s communities approval and it still continues today. Labeling the genetically modified organisms was also known as “Proposition 37.” Genetically modified organisms had contaminated the food supply. “A GMO (genetically modified organism) is the result of a laboratory process where genes from the DNA of one species are extracted and artificially forced in the genes of an unrelated…

Vaccination do not only help the individual, but also help their entire community to prevent diseases from spreading. With the overall community being vaccinated, they are able to achieve herd immunity. Herd immunity is when “a critical portion of a community is immunized against a contagious disease” and with this the other part of the community that is not immunized will be protected (Tolsma). To achieve herd immunity, “the coverage target is greater than or equal to ninety-five percent…

There is great importance in regards to reporting medication errors within a facility. The report of medication errors trigger the healthcare staff to unveil what has gone wrong in their system of medication administration. In many settings reporting of medication errors are voluntary and the perceptions of the healthcare staff influence their decision-making process on whether to report the errors or not (Samsiah, Othman, Jamshed, & Hassali, 2016). In order for facilities to enhance their…

experiments involving animals are flawed, wasting the lives of the animal subjects, Animal tests do not reliably predict results in human beings, and Drugs that pass animal tests are not necessarily safe for humans. There are the experiments in the United States that allows animals to be burned, poisoned, isolated, undernourished, drowned, addicted to drugs, and more. In all of these experiments they are not required to use pain killers, so as it's happening they are feeling all the pain. The…

in the form of an auto injector allows administration of the medication in under a minute of obtaining the injector. The EpiPen, when prescribed by a doctor comes in a box that contains two auto injectors…