Health administration

"Achilles Heel" that is the Food and Drug Administration In Greek mythology, Achilles was a great warrior who did many great deeds. He was extremely strong and his enemies eventually came to fear the very mention of his name. Although strong, Achilles had a massive weakness that eventually proved fatal once it was exploited. In modern times, we now refer to a great weakness amidst great strength as an "Achilles Heel". The Food and Drug Administration oversees the nation 's food supply and…

its mission. FDA (U.S. Food & Drugs Administration): It is a federal administration which protects the safety and public health of the U.S. The mission of the FDA is to ensure the safety of every American family by ensuring the control and the potency of the products offered to the population, such as food supply, cosmetics, medical devices, medications, and others. Also, the goals are to provide obtainable and secured public health service to improve the health of the U.S population based on…

of the Interior Department, and the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. On August 9, 1921, the Congress consolidated all federal Veterans programs by combining World War I Veterans programs to create the Veterans Bureau. Public Health Service Veterans’ hospitals were reassigned to the Veterans bureau, and this is the beginning of a determined hospital construction program for World War I Veterans (VA,…

Gallate. When caffeine and green tea extracts are combined, the effect on weight loss is small. The United States Pharmacopeia is a nonprofit organization that sets standards for dietary supplements. These standards are enforced by the Food and Drug Administration. According to the United States Pharmacopeia, Green tea extracts have been probable causes in seven cases and a possible 27 other cases of liver damage. When these supplements are taken on an empty stomach, the outcomes can be fatal…

common knowledge that there is an exponential growth in the amount of money being spent annually on resources by health care administrations, most of which ends up becoming useless. There are administrators assigned to writing policies that can help cut the spending budget in order to reduce wasted materials, but there has still been no drastic change. An article published by the Health Affairs journal stated that in reducing spending, “a key target is eliminating waste – spending that could be…

First of all, the National Recovery Administration offered white people jobs first before black Americans. Not only that, white people received higher pay than black Americans. (Document 7)This proved the New Deal to be unsuccessful because black Americans were heavily discriminated and it promoted…

Phase III Multinational Clinical Trials for Biosimilar USFDA and Health Canada have established exclusive approval pathways for biosimilars, they are not identical copies of their originators but needs to show a highly similar structure and similar clinical efficacy, safety and immunogenicity to their approved reference biologics. The main goal is to approve biosimilars are to reduce the cost and make it available to the large population. Biosimilars also undergo for testing at all stages of…

Mofetoluwa Adeosun HST410H1S Light, D. (2010). The Risks of Prescription Drugs. New York: Columbia University Press. Donald light is a professor of comparative health at rowan university schools of osteopathic medicine. He received his B.A in history from Stanford University, his MA in sociology at the University of Chicago and a PhD in sociology from Brandeis. He is one of the founding fellows of bioethics and he is interested in the historical roots of institutional corruption and how this…

The Veterans Health Administration is “the largest integrated provider of health care in the United States – public or private- operating one hundred fifty-two hospitals and over one thousand four hundred outpatient clinics across the United States.” (Moore) The system services nine million veterans despite the publicized scandals starting in 2013. The VHA medical centers provides services including hospital based services, surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology…

initial thoughts to warrant were withdrawn to unwarranted, not acknowledging the danger associated with Vioxx and their action to act on approving the drug (Bresalier et al., 2005; Risk Sciences International, 2012; United States Food and Drug Administration,…