Define
What type of research is conducted to increase fundamental knowledge and understanding of the physical, chemical, and functional mechanisms of life processes and diseases?
Basic Research
What is the study of disease incidence and its distribution in a population?
Epidemiology
What animal contributed to developing prosthetic devices for heart valves?
Dogs
Give one example for the treatment of cancer
1) Development of new drugs
2) Gene Therapy
What is the first document you have to send into the FDA in order to start a clinical trial?
Define Applied Research.
Research directed towards specific objectives such as the development of a new drug, treatment, or surgical procedure.
How many different types of epidemiological studies are there?
3
What animal helped find new treatments for cancer?
Mice
Which disease is caused by a deficiency of insulin or the inability to produce insulin?
Diabetes
Which phase determines a drug's interaction with the human system?
Phase 1
Define science.
Science is a continuous stream of ideas that are constantly being reshaped, added to, subtracted from, and built upon.
What are the three types of epidemiology?
Experimental
Descriptive
Observational
What animal contributed to advances in vaccines and therapy studies for AIDS?
Monkeys
What was invented to make open-heart surgery possible?
How many people and how long does Phase 2 take?
100 - 300 volunteer patients and 2 years
What is biomedical research?
The what, who, and how of science that determines the shape and structure of the scientific puzzle.
What type of study uses data from individual or small groups?
Observational
What did the Wild Armadillos contribute to?
Leprosy
How many bone marrow transplants occur worldwide?
12,000
How long does the entire process of clinical trials take?
12 years
What is correlation?
Two things that tend to happen together.
What is a limitation to epidemiological studies?
Considerable human exposure can take place before a toxic effect is detectable.
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Dr. Edward Jenner in 1794
What is a strength of human clinical trials?
It provides actual human data on the efficacy and safety of promising new drugs.