both the patient and the doctor know what they are going to be given.
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What is a blind trial?
The patient doesnt know what they are getting but the doctor knows what they are giving
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What is a double blind test?
neither the researcher nor the patient knows what they are getting.
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How do vaccines work?
Small amounts of inactive pathogens are put inside your body, often by injection. The antigens then stimulat the white blood cells making antiobodies that destroy the antigens without causing disease. You become immune to future infection because you
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What is the difference between pre-clinic and clinical testing?
They do pre-clinical testing on cells tissue and animals and they do clicnical testing on on healthy patients.
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What does efficacy mean?
How well the drug cures the disease or improves the symptoms.
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What does herd immunity mean?
If a large proportion of the population is immune to a disease the spread of pathogens is very much reduced.
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What does antigen mean?
A protein marker on the surface of a cell.
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Card 2
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What is a blind trial?
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The patient doesnt know what they are getting but the doctor knows what they are giving
Card 3
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What is a double blind test?
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How do vaccines work?
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Card 5
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What is the difference between pre-clinic and clinical testing?
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