Schacter, Bernice Zeldin, 1943-

The new medicines : how drugs are created, approved, marketed, and sold / Bernice Schacter. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006. - xi, 267 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-257) and index.

The path from bench to bedside -- How did the FDA get to be in charge? The history of regulation of human drugs -- The eureka moment: how new medicines are discovered -- Test tube results are not enough: animal tests for a drug's utility -- The business decisions: committing to development -- Production of the new drug -- Laboratory and animal safety testing -- Getting set for clinical trials -- Phase 1 clinical trials -- Phase 2 clinical testing -- Phase 3 testing -- Putting together the application forapproval: the new drug application (NDA) -- Now everybody holds their breath (and some people may brush up on the rules for insider trading), will the FDA file the NDA? -- The FDA review -- What do outside experts think? The advisory committee meeting and FDA approval -- The launch-marketing the drug -- It's not over till it's over: post approval studies -- Are we (well) served? Do we have the system of industry and regulations we need want and may deserve.

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Drug development--Popular works.
Clinical trials--Popular works.
Pharmaceutical industry--Popular works.
Consumer education.
Drug Industry--organization & administration--United States.
Pharmaceutical Preparations--economics--United States.
Clinical Trials--United States.
Drug Design--United States.
Drugs, Investigational--economics--United States.
Legislation, Drug--United States.

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QV 736 / S291n 2006