throat‚ and even putting chemicals into the animal’s eyes. This type of testing is useless and unnecessary‚ especially considering the fact that animals might react differently to certain chemicals than humans would. A prominent example would be Thalidomide. Thalidomine was a drug that came out of the Germany throughout the sixties and seventies and was stated to be safely tested on thousands of animals. It was then marketed as a wonder drug; an amazing drug which sedated or smoothed pregnant mothers
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Medicinal and Healthcare Regulation in the US: An Overview of Major Events Regulation as we know it today‚ particularly in health care‚ is a relatively young concept. According to Brennan and Berwick in their book entitled New Rules they state “Though the roots of the regulatory state in this country can be traced to legislation passed in the middle and latter parts of the nineteenth century‚ regulation assumed its modern aspect in the years of the New Deal” (Brennan and Berwick‚ p.10). The New
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Do you want to see animals abused and killed sometimes for nothing? Animal testing is flawed and can produce very unreliable results. Around 26 million animals are used every year for scientific and commercial testing. These animals are used to determine the toxicity and effectiveness of medications before they test it on humans. Therefore animal testing should be banned. First of all‚ research on animals is sometimes flawed because of biased scientists. According to pro-con.org “87% of the studies
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some experiments involve genetic manipulation that would be unacceptable to impose on human subjects before animal testing. Others disagree and think drugs that pass animal tests are still not necessarily safe for humans. The 1950s sleeping pill thalidomide‚ which caused 10‚000 babies to be born with severe deformities‚ was tested on animals prior to its commercial release and animal tests on the arthritis drug Vioxx showed that it had a protective effect on the hearts of mice‚ yet the drug went on
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Did you know that thousands of animals die each year because of animal testing? Lots of injuries and diseases are being developed because of animal testing. Animals and humans are being harmed. Animal testing is bad because it is very cruel and inhumane‚ lots of animals are being killed because it’s not safe‚ and it does not give reliably predictable results. First‚ some experiments on animals are very cruel and inhumane. Some places force animals into doing things that they don’t want to do
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of the animals used in the testing and experiments are blind‚ severely burned or poisoned. Animals don’t need to suffer testing. Animal testing is not accurate. First of all animals react to medicine differently than humans do. For example‚ thalidomide causes birth defects in humans‚ but not in rats‚ mice‚ and hamsters. 50% of drugs that have been approved by animal testing have to be removed because of harmful side effects in the U.S. There is actually no evidence stating that animal testing
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Animal Testing is a cruel experiment when animals are used as test subjects on products and drugs. This causes harm to the animals‚ and is not always reliable. Animas should not be tested on for products Animal testing is unreliable. Some may say animals are appropriate test subjects because they are similar to humans. Professor Paul Furlong states that "it’s very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we’re trying to achieve in the human.". So testing on animals wont
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Yes‚ there are times when animal testing has lead to discoveries‚ such as insulin. However‚ there are times that the discovery of medical interventions that were in fact tested on animals lead to many defects and disabilities in human fetuses. Thalidomide was tested in various species of animals and was accepted to be provided to mothers with morning sickness to relieve them of the nausea (Bowd‚ 206). But‚ it had the opposite affect instead resulting in various deformities within the unborn and born
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Importance of stereoisomers in a biological system Isomers are compounds that have the same molecular formula but different structural formulas. Stereoisomers are isomers that have the same sequence of bonded atoms‚ but they differ in their three dimensional orientation in space. [pic] shown above is an example of the two types of Stereoisomers; Enantiomers‚ which are stereioisomers which are non-superimposible mirror images‚ much the same as one’s left and right hands are the same
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Development • TERATOGENS: any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period. Depends on the: – Dose – Genetic Susceptibility – Time of Exposure to Teratogens • Key Teratogens – Prescription and NonPrescription Drugs • Thalidomide (sedative) • Accutane – Psychoactive Drugs (Caffeine‚ Alcohol‚ Nicotine‚ Cocaine‚ Marijuana‚ Heroin) • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Hazards… • INCOMPATIBLE BLOOD TYPES – Rh Incompatibility – Mental retardation‚ miscarriages‚ infant death
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