National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act

introduction in the late 1700s, vaccinations have been a controversial topic of discussion. Vaccines are a safe and effective way to prevent the spread of disease. Although we can attribute the eradication and control of many diseases to vaccinations, there are still many Americans who are refusing to vaccinate their children based on their belief in a few unfounded fears. Most of these fears that the anti vaccine community believes are centered around the health risks involved with the practice of vaccinating

INTRODUCTION: Pertussis is an extremely contagious infection of the respiratory tract that results in the greatest mortality and morbidity in children. The infection is caused by Bordetella pertussis, a gram-negative bacterium that settles and replicates in the ciliated epithelium of the respiratory tract resulting in adhesions and severe coughing episodes. Pertussis is also known as “whooping cough” and is characterized by three chronological stages: the catarrhal, paroxysmal, and convalescent

number of ways. Laboratory testing of animals should not be stopped because it is an effective way to test drugs, leads to important discoveries that save human lives, and it benefits the animals as well. Animals are used to test many drugs and vaccines before the medications are released to the public. This is an effective way to test the safety of these drugs because animals, such as chimpanzees, have 99% similar DNA to humans (“Should Animals Be Used For Scientific or Commercial Testing?”).

becomes evident between 6 and 8 months of age, when infants are less likely to accept strangers. * Reactive attachment disorder results from maladaptive or absent attachment between the * infant and primary caregiver, and continues through childhood and adulthood Sleep and Activity * Activity * Play should provide interpersonal contact and educational stimulation. * Infants have short attention spans and will not interact with other children during play (solitary play)

Temple Grandin, an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, said of Autism, “Autism is an extremely variable disorder.” Autism is an extremely variable disorder because of the many different characteristics shown in children diagnosed with the disorder. Many Americans are clueless about Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. In order to understand Autism one needs to know the definition of the disease, ascertain the characteristics of the disease, know the probability

Professor Sophie Sills English 240 December 16, 2011 Should Animals be used for Research During the past ten years, a major controversy over the use of animals in biomedical and behavioral research has arisen. The debate about using animals for medical testing has been ongoing for years. The struggle is usually between animal rights activists and scientist. I believe that animal testing is imperative to the progression of medical cures, procedures and drugs. Scientists have been solving medical

requested by the physician. The medication should be checked when obtaining it from the storage unit, when dispensing it from the container prior to administration, and then again before returning it to the storage unit. The volume of Hepatitis B vaccine was for 1 mL. The amount that would have shown on the syringe is 1.0. The expiration date was 03/2007. This date was important because the medication was expired, but still administered. The medical assistant should have immediately told the physician

use everyday. The animals are used to test toxicity, consumer products, medical devices, and new drugs. The Federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) regulates animal testing in the United States. The AWA defines an “animal” as any live or dead dog, cat, monkey, guinea pig, hamster, rabbit, and other warm-blooded animals. The AWA does not protect 95% of these animals. The Act excludes animals such as, birds, rats, mice, reptiles, and most fish. While the AWA regulates the housing and transportation of animals

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

are bred for only this reason there has been many laws put into place to protect animals from mistreatment. There are local and states laws that have always been in place. But animal research is regulated by the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) since 1966. This Act enforces minimum housing regulations and standards for animals (enclosure size, temperature, access to clean food and water and more), also the AWA requires regular visits and checkups with a veterinarian for all animals. The research