It takes a long time and a lot of work to create the prescription medicines you and your family take. Each new medicine needs to go through a very difficult and long process to determine if it is safe and will work when appropriately prescribed. This process is called a clinical trial.
How does a clinical trial work?
There are many checkpoints in place to determine if medicines will be safe and will work well for the patients who need them most. Select a colored tab to learn about each phase of a clinical trial:
The "eureka!" moment
When doctors see a health problem and have an idea of how to solve it, the first step is to test an idea for a medicine in a lab to see if it might help treat or prevent a health problem, like type 2 diabetes or even cancer. Here’s how it works:
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Posted By: Cheer Leader
Monday, October 17th 2016 at 11:27AM
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