Thalidomide
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- Created on: 24-04-13 18:51
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- Developing New Medicines
- A good medicine must be....
- Effective
- Safe
- Stable
- Safely taken into and excreted from the body.
- Researchers target disease and make lots of new drugs
- These drugs are tested in labs on cells, tissues, organs and systems - most drugs fail at this stage.
- Chemicals which pass lab tests are tested on animals to see how they work in a living organism
- Drugs that pass animal testing will go forth into clinical trials on humans - drugs will be tested on healthy human volunteers to check for side effects.
- If they pass this stage they go into bigger clinical trails to find out optimum dosage for drugs.
- Drugs that pass animal testing will go forth into clinical trials on humans - drugs will be tested on healthy human volunteers to check for side effects.
- Chemicals which pass lab tests are tested on animals to see how they work in a living organism
- These drugs are tested in labs on cells, tissues, organs and systems - most drugs fail at this stage.
- Double Blind Trials
- To see just how effective the drug is.
- Some subjects are given a placebo - a pill which contains no drug at all.
- Neither doctors or patients know who has recieved the placebo or the actual drug.
- Thalidomide
- Drug which was originally perscribed as sleeping pill
- Untitled
- In future, was perscribed to pregnant women suffering morning sickness
- Drug wasn't tested on pregnant women
- Drug which was originally perscribed as sleeping pill
- A good medicine must be....
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