How Can The Government Use Biotechnology Improve Public...

Andrew Firestone Professor Feldmann Biotechnology 12 November, 2015 How Can the Government Use Biotechnology to Improve Public Health? Biotechnology is the use of existing systems and organisms to develop products(). One sector of Biotechnology that will help in improving public health is medical biotechnology which focuses on genetic causes of diseases and individualized cures().The problem is that federal regulations affect research choices and procedures that limit the potential of these study’s. Public health issues range from infectious disease to prescription drug abuse. In order for the United States government to resolve these issues it is not only going to take state legislatures shaping the public health system which includes†¦show more content†¦Developing countries feel the affect of infectious disease greater than anyone else. Global health is something society works on improving every day. To improve how society battles health disparities one must look at the science involved in curing diseases and sickness. Rapid and effective diagnostic tools, new vaccines and drugs, and efficient del ivery methods form the groundwork for a successful public health system that will in itself lead to a global health improvement. In addition to improving global health, poverty will also come closer to eradication which is what society strives for on a daily basis. The application of each of these improvements in societal health problems will effectively get people closer to achieving the common goal of eliminating disease and discovering a perfect system that allows any individual access to health care. These means can be achieved very effectively using biotechnology. Biotechnology has astonishing potential to address these problems and improve upon them. A cure for the Ebola infection has not yet been found in humans but scientists in Canada announced the successful treatment of the infection in monkeys in 2012. This was found using combined antibodies that agreed with the casing around the Ebola virus. This cure was found in a Biotechnological laboratory in Winnepeg, Manitoba(). Although this may not be a cure for humans it is a big step forward. This eliminates many difficult challenges that scientists were facing when