Medical Milestones
This type of medicine is tested in experiments to see if they work properly.
What is a drug?
In this US study, men with syphilis were not given treatment.
What is Tuskegee study?
Before joining a study, people must give this to agree/participate.
What is consent?
This term refers to the unintended negative effects of public health intervention.
What is public health fallout?
This mineral was added to salt to stop goiters.
What is iodine?
This shot is given to young kids to prevent Polio.
What is the Polio vaccine?
During WW2 these doctors performed cruel experiment on prisoners.
Who were the Nazis?
This ensures good and proper checks should be in place to ensure size is good.
What are ethics boards?
This 1970s scandal involved sterilization of Native American without proper consent.
What is the Indian Health Service sterilization controversy?
This element was added to drinking water to protect teeth from cavities.
What is fluoride?
Antibiotics were discovered through this type of scientific testing.
What is experimentation?
In 1951, this woman had her cell taken without permission (Still used today).
Who is Henrietta lacks?
This means experiments must do no harm and provide health benefit.
What is beneficence?
This psychology effect can occur when the communities feel exploited by researcher.
What is trauma or collective distrust?
This US agency checks to see if new medications are safe & effective.
What is the FDA (Federal Drug Administration)?
These studies involve volunteers to help test if new treatments are safe.
What are clinical trials?
US researchers once infected people in this country with disease without consent.
What is Guatemala?
Rules to ensure doing good, fairness over a principle of the important right.
What is Belmont Report?
This type of fallout can occur when experimental drugs are rushed to market without adequate testing.
What is adverse drug reaction or public backlash?
This scientific tool allows researchers to go in and edit genes.
What is CRISPR?
This common vaccine was an early success at wiping out a deadly disease globally.
What is the Smallpox vaccine?
Because of this abuse many communities today have less of this toward researchers.
What is trust?
Today, no study can begin without approval from this committee type.
What is Institutional Review Board?
This Global health crisis revealed ethical tensions between rapid vaccine development and equitable distribution.
What is the Covid-19 pandemic?
The main goal of public health experiments is to improve this.
What is health (public health)?