FDA -what does it stand for and what does it do? - answer Food and Drug
Administration, oversees the safety and efficacy of new medications.
FDA -PDUFA - answer Prescription Drug User Fees Act, requires drug companies to
pay fees to support the drug review process.
Biotechnology - answer sees the human body as a collection of molecules and seeks
to understand and treat disease in terms of these molecules.
Rational drug design - answer Developing drugs by design requires mapping the
structure and creating a three-dimensional graphical model of the target molecule
Bioinformatics - answer which uses computers to solve biological problems; dental
informatics, which combines computer technology with dentistry to create a basis for
research, education, and the solution of real-world problems in dentistry; and nursing
infor-matics, which uses computers to support nurses.
Human Genome Project - answer "an . . . effort to understand the hereditary
instructions that make each of us unique. The goal is to find the location of the 100,000
or so human genes and to read the entire genetic script. . . ."
Drug delivery on a chip - answer The drug is embedded in a chip,which is surgically
implanted in the patient. The drug may be released by diffusion.
Medication reconciliation errors - answer errors typically occur when a patient
changes status-that is, is admitted to, moved within, or released from a hospital.
Effective drug development may be the result of understanding the genetic basis of a
disease - answer True
Robotic pharmacy - answer Decentralized hospital dispensing units do not reduce
dispensing errors to zero, but they come close.
DentSim - answer is a program that uses virtual real-ity. Its purpose is to teach
technical dexterity to dental students.
Electronic dental charts -what are some of the things they include? - answer The
electronic dental chart is standardized, easy to search, and easy to read. It will include
administrative applications, the patient's conditions ,treatment.
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