Medical Devices
A federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services that ensures the safety and effectiveness of food products, medicinal drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
A federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services that is responsible for applying and developing procedures and mandates to improve the overall health of U.S. citizens.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
A type of medicine that fights bacterial infections by killing the bacteria or preventing it from growing and multiplying.
What are antibiotics?
The federal act enacted in March 2010 that consisted of healthcare reform laws that battled economic inequality and supported universal healthcare.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
The federal act that allowed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to gain regulatory authority over the recognition and intention of medical devices.
What is the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act?
The disease that about 59% of the U.S. population is vaccinated against as of November 2021.
What is COVID-19?
Live microorganisms that provide health benefits when consumed or applied to the body. They can be found in yogurt, fermented foods, dietary supplements, and beauty products.
What are probiotics?
The two federal programs that assist in providing health insurance for all U.S. citizens.
What is Medicare and Medicaid?
A medical technique that generates pictures of a human's internal organs using magnetic fields and radio waves.
(Hint: Commonly used for diagnosing tumors)
What is an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
The contagious disease that the first vaccine was used against.
(Hint: Implemented by Edward Jenner in 1798)
What is smallpox?
This type of medication is taken to lower high blood pressure.
What are antihypertensives?
The only country in NATO that doesn't have a universal healthcare system.
What is the United States of America (USA)?
The year in which the Medical Device Amendments established three regulatory classes for medical devices based on criteria regarding the degree of health risks.
What happened in 1976?
This vaccine prevents a virus that can cause cervical cancer and other cancers linked to sexual transmission.
What is the HPV vaccine?
The antibiotic penicillin was discovered accidentally by this scientist in 1928.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This patient privacy law in the United States protects medical information from being shared without consent.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
This imaging device uses high-frequency sound waves to produce pictures of organs, tissues, and blood flow.
What is an ultrasound machine?
A type of immunity where an individual is given antibodies to a disease rather than producing through their own immune system. It can be acquired via birth or antibody-containing blood products.
What is passive immunity?
A type of medicine that comes in the form of tablets and is absorbed into the bloodstream.
What are sublingual medicines?
The two most important outcomes that medical frameworks must work toward.
(Hint: The financial and health benefits of a medical framework)
What are low costs and patient safety?