Why did it take so long for penicillin to be produced in Britain on a large scale? It took a long time for penicillin to be produced on a large scale in Britain because of many reasons. First of all, the discovery of penicillin was a chance discovery which meant that Fleming wasn’t prepared to put it forward as much as Florey and Chain did. After the discovery had been made, Fleming had to spend a long time researching why and how it killed the bacteria, which took time. Other than the chance discovery, another factor that held back Fleming was government funding.
Companies maintain this provides an educational service by keeping doctors updated on the latest changes in medical science. Critics point to a systematic use of gifts and personal information (details) to befriend doctors to influence their drug prescriptions. Usually these sales reps come by to sale or to advertise their company’s drugs to the doctor for them to prescribe to their patients to use (Fugh-Berman & Ahari, 2007). Typically the sales reps will offer samples, and gifts to help get the doctors interest in what they are selling so that they will prescribe their drugs to us over other companies’ drugs, even if it is not in our best interest. The question I ask here today is this ok?
Any industry is not without its own isolated illegal and unethical behavior. The pharmaceutical industry has countless examples of these, which is why we are going to look in on some of the general practices that all the companies participate in and the ethical debate around them. The marketing practices of the pharmaceutical industry have a great deal of controversy around the technique used to promote and advertise their products. More than a third of pharmaceutical companies’ resources go into promotion and marketing. Annually, the industry spends nearly twice as much on marketing as it spends on research and development.
From assessing the key arguments and research regarding the positives and negatives of MMT, it is evident that MMT is good for some patients, but perhaps not as good for others. Therefore, when deciding whether to undergo MMT or an alternative treatment, factors relating to methadone, the individual themselves and their surrounding context also need to be accounted for. These three factors can’t be assessed in isolation and rather the interaction between them need to be understood in order to decide whether undertaking MMT is the best option available. A Reflection on the Main Arguments in Regards to Methadone Maintenance Therapy Methadone has been used as a treatment for heroin addiction since the 1960s (Payte 1997). Methadone Maintenance Therapy (MMT) has been found to be highly effective in decreasing the number of deaths related to heroin use, due to it’s long lasting duration and oral ingestion, which halt it’s effects and cravings (Rawson, McCann, Hasson & Ling 2000).
Ryan Witt Doug Peterson ENC1101 December 5, 2014 The Soda Ban Act With portion sizes at chain-restaurants skyrocketing 457 percent over the last 20 years, it’s not hard to believe that in 2030 an estimated 42 percent of Americans will be obese. Statistics like this are what began the Soda Ban’s evolution. In the efforts to “help people help themselves by simply saying ‘No.’” as Nadia Arumugam would say, the soda ban restricts or puts a limit on the size drink Americans can purchase at most food franchises. However, will restricting the public of what they desire ultimately control the consumption of sugary beverages? The world can only advance through education, thus the Soda Ban’s restriction on sugary drinks contributed towards a
The Negative Ramifications of Antidepressant Medications I am very concerned about the increase in the use of antidepressant medications, which have been on the incline for the past 20 years. I believe that most of these drugs are being unnecessarily prescribed to millions of men, women and children every day across America. I notice that every time someone feels a little down or the least bit depressed they run to their physician and receive a prescription for some form of antidepressant which they believe will take care of all of their problems and unhappiness. I think some of the problem lies in the television commercials regarding these medications. When the public sees an advertisement stating that a pill will take away all of their bad feelings, they want to believe it and this is how the doctors and drug manufacturers convince the public that they need these medications.
✓ Easy to dispose and incinerate not like usual equipments (Ex: Syringe). ← Disadvantages: In my opinion it's 90% perfect because it has a weakness point while using it in medicine; there is large numbers of diseases so we need large numbers of this invention to fit the number of diseases, but professor George Whitesides and his team are developing papers to be able to perform several different tests several times so when this happens this invention will be 100% perfect. ← Conclusion: In conclusion, we notice that this invention has many benefits for humanity so I hope that it'll be developed more and more. References ✓ Kristina Grifantini. (2009).
The American people overwhelmingly support the medical use of marijuana and Eighteen States have medical marijuana laws and several more are currently working on medical marijuana legislation. Clearly, the light has been seen by the sick people of America because 2 states have completely legalized it for recreational use just like alcohol. Obviously there will be driving laws and public intoxication laws as there should be. Being stoned in public isn’t good for a person’s image anyway. Once the Judges, Governors, senators and every other political officials have come to an agreement on the controversy, I feel America will become a much healthier, smellier, safer place.
Where do we as a society place the blame for so many children being obese? There are many different theories as to why or how our children have become increasingly “bigger” over the past decade or so. * Television and video games are huge factors in the sedentary lives children lead today. Having over 200 channels and a remote control at their fingertips does not lead to an active lifestyle, nor do infinite life or ammunition on video games. Do we as parents blame ourselves for not limiting these activities or do we place the blame with the people who actually manufacture these television shows and video games?
You cannot expect to send a 16 year old to college and still have full control over their curfew and monitor their social life. Of course, along with drinking comes sexual promiscuity. STD’s, or sexually transmitted diseases, are also at epidemic proportions. American teenagers have more pregnancies, births, and abortions than youngsters in any other Western Industrialized country. One-third of young US girls, about 820,000, become pregnant before they turn 20 (80% are unmarried) and 4 million American teens contract an STD each year.