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The FDA is charged with protecting consumers, patients, and enhancing public health globally by maximizing compliance of FDA regulated drugs, products, and devices and minimizing risk associated with those products. While FDA’s overarching mission remains the same, it has added additional products to regulate and further expansion of its global reach. FDA is now responsibility for regulating the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products to protect the public health and to…

Part of the Pharmacy Tech’s role in greening environments is to ask their manager for recycling bins appropriate to their area. This would allow for broken medical materials/emptied plastic or glass to be recycled and used for other daily items. When it comes to pharmaceutical waste, using the appropriate channels of communication for outdated medicine to be properly disposed of in an incinerator. As a Pharmacy Technician and an employee, we may request that our equipment be looked at to see if…

Improvement of TSAAfter September 11th , 2001, our country's airport security has changed and advanced forthe better of safety in the United States. Due to the hijacking of planes, the head of TSA(Transportation Security Administration), decided to increase the amount of security in airportsto avoid days like September 11th. With new systems and higher technology, our safetycontinues to go uphill for our safety.You can no longer walk up to the gates in airports, you must now go into security…

FDA takes a long time to approve generic drug. Thee FDA have led to delays of three or four years before generic manufacturers can win approval to make drugs not protected by patents (Lipkins). Sometimes, state laws and other “well-intentioned” federal policies limit generics’ abilities to keep costs down. Costs ran higher because pharmacists didn’t get patient consent and Medicaid had to pay for the costlier brand name drug even though a cheaper product was available (Lupkin). Last reason…

The prescription and over the counter drug markets have been rapidly increasing over the century. New drugs are continually being marketed to consumers of different ages for various symptoms and illnesses, some unheard of in the past as new scientific studies have determined newly found psychological and physical illnesses in recent years. New medications are becoming available for some form of treatment for every illness found (Levinthal 340). The government has increased restrictions for…

The demand for specialty medications will significantly increase. By 2020, 9.1 percent of healthcare spending will be for using specialty medications. After the Orphan Drug Act was enacted into law in 1983, more and more biological products and new medications have been developing to treat rare and critical diseases. Also, the Affordable Care Act ensures that patients cannot be denied coverage for pre-existing or high-cost conditions, which may require specialty medications. These laws create…

For the development of new drugs, there is a requirement for investment of major capital, human resources and scientific expertise. Not only are stringent regulations required on testing and manufacturing standards of the drug, there is also the general population healthcare requisite which needs to be met with the limited resources and technology available. For a new drug to reach the market, it takes more than a decade and several tests and trials that the FDA needs to clear. The information…

The Transportation Security Administration is a government agency that is over the security for highways, mass transit, and buses but they are mostly known for the security in America's airports. The TSA was created as a response to the September 11, 2001, attacks. The goal of the TSA is to make sure all flights are safe. The TSA has a funding that is roughly in the billions and the budgets come out of passenger tax. The TSA requires that passengers show ID at the security checkpoint before…

The United States Food and Drug Administration is the government agency responsible for regulating food, dietary supplements, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, biologics and blood products in the United States. The agency is authorized by the government to inspect, test, approve, and set safety standards for foods, chemicals, medical devices, cosmetics, and household devices (britanica.org). Made up of 2,100 scientist including chemists, pharmacologists, physicians, microbiologists,…

Do pharmaceutical companies really care about us? It’s crazy to believe that people you trust, don’t care for you one bit. Big Pharma, a group of pharmaceutical companies connected with the government gets large amounts of money from the people of the world; this conspiracy that people believe can be proven as factual through research over industry funded vs. government funded pharmaceuticals and the way the government finds a way to pay less and receive more money. It’s not easy to clearly…