Pharmacovigilance is defined as study and surveillance of post marketed drugs. The importance of pharmacovigilance is to ensure the safety of drugs consumed by patients. So, why U.S. Food and Administration (FDA) still surveillance post marketed drug even though, these drugs go through such vigorous review, follow strict procedures and standards that are in compliance with GMP established by FDA during clinical trials and also goes through CDER. The Center of Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) is
protect them from harm. No parent would allow their child to play with a loaded weapon, even with the safety on, and expect the best outcome. It would never happen. But it does. With every vaccine that is given, we are playing Russian roulette with our children’s lives. Childhood vaccinations have replaced common childhood illness as a “rite of passage” for many young children. Many parents, at the recommendation of their physician, diligently bring their children to the doctor every couple of months for
Introduction Vaccines against diphtheria, polio, pertussis, measles, mumps and rubella, and more recent additions of hepatitis B and chicken pox, have given humans powerful immune guards to ward off unwelcome sickness. And thanks to state laws that require vaccinations for kids enrolling in kindergarten, the U.S. presently enjoys the highest immunization rate ever at 77%. Yet bubbling beneath these national numbers is the question about vaccine safety. Driven by claims that vaccinations can be
far outweighs the small risks associated with vaccination. Some diseases are preventable like measles and mumps if the child was vaccinated. These diseases could cause permanent damage like disability and death. For the most part vaccines are safe and very effective. Vaccines have kept our children healthy and saved millions of lives for many years. Some diseases cannot be treated with just medical therapy therefore vaccination will be a better solution. Some people travel abroad and they may have
Solutions 1.Make the vaccine exemption requirements stricter, requiring the approval of the child’s physician. 2. State of California recently passed a bill to eliminate personal belief exemptions 3. California should follow Dr. Edgar Marcuse’s, from University of Washington
A vaccine is a substance used to provide immunity against a disease. In some cases, vaccines have done more harm than good. Ignoring this fact, vaccines are mandatory in every state, and some states are trying to take away the parent’s right to deny them. The disadvantages, diseases, and disabilities caused by vaccines justify the parent’s right to decide against the risk of vaccination. The extent of adverse reactions to vaccines is crippling. Every year, there are more than 20,000 vaccine adverse
saving them from the disease they didn’t know they were going to get. Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.” – Scientist, William Foege “Vaccines have contributed to a significant reduction in many childhood infectious diseases, such as diphtheria, measles, and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). Some infectious diseases, such as polio and smallpox, have been eliminated in the United States due to effective vaccines. It is now rare for children in the United States to experience the devastating
Vaccines: Fact vs. Fiction Introduction Vaccines have been developed to prevent the spread of diseases that have serious effects on the world’s population. The more individuals that go unvaccinated the greater the chance that these diseases, that are easily preventable, are spread. The issue of vaccinating children has been a recent "hot button" issue and highly debated. Parents have many reasons for not vaccinating their children. More often than not, I have heard from parents who say that they
The argument regarding vaccinations has been a debate for numerous people. A vaccine is described as “a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.” (Oxford Dictionaries). People should be for vaccinations because not only do they protect individuals, but also entire communities against
complex developmental brain disorders known as Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). The other pervasive developmental disorders are PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified), Asperger's Syndrome, Rett Syndrome and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder. Many parents and professionals refer to this group as Autism Spectrum Disorders.” They also said that “Asperger’s syndrome is a developmental disorder that makes it very hard to interact with other people.” Your toddler may
direct use of animals in the last 100 years. Can you believe this? Taking out dogs pancreases helped us discover insulin, chimpanzees helped us get a vaccine for Hepatitis B, and even the polio vaccine was tested on animals. Animal testing has also helped us treat and understand conditions like brain injury, breast cancer, cystic fibrosis, childhood leukemia, tuberculosis, multiple sclerosis, malaria, and many others. It even helped us develop anesthetics, pacemakers, and cardiac value substitutes
Health care information system (HCIS) is an arrangement of information (data), processes, people, and information technology that interact to collect, process, store, and provide as output the information needed to support the health care organization (Wager, Lee, Glaser, 2013, p. 105). Having ready access to timely, complete, accurate, legible, and relevant information is critical to health care organizations, providers, and the patients they serve (Wagerm Lee, & Glaser, 2013). In the health care
The American Psychological Society. Bethesda, MD. 2010. Print. "Forty Reasons Why We Need Animals in Research." Understanding Animal Research. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Aug. 2014. “How Do Animals Benefit from Animal Research?” The National Academies Press. (1991): 14. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10089&page=14 Maxwell, Marius. "Chimpanzees Don 't Hold Cures for Diseases." People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. 06 Jun. 2007: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 04 Aug
community that either results in or has high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, mal-development or deprivation."(2) The definition of violence includes a broad range of outcomes which echoes the rising need of recognising violence as a threat and burden on individuals, families and health care systems all over the world. Any form of violence towards children, women and elderly may not necessarily cause injury, disability or death, but it does have an immediate or latent debilitating
When faced with the task of discussing the challenges and opportunities of the healthcare services in the future, we divided the topic into what we collectively believe to be the four fundamental areas of importance. We propose to investigate the opportunites afforded by advances in (1)research and (2)technology, and question the challenges posed by (3)financial restraints and (4)life style choices. We will examine how these factors will impact healthcare services in the future and suggest some effective