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A new drug is tested on healthy volunteers first (in what are called Phase 1 clinical trials) to determine if the drug is safe to give to humans. The drug company has already done extensive testing in cell cultures, tissue cultures, computer modeling and animal testing and is relatively sure that the drug is not dangerous, but cannot be sure until humans have taken the drug.
In Phase 2 clinical trials, people who are ill with the disease the drug is trying to cure or treat take it, again to test safety and also to get an idea of what the dosing should be, if there appears to be any benefit from the drug and what side effects there may be.
Phase 3 clinical trials are when a large number of people take the drug to see if it actually works; safety and dosage have already been determined.
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∙ 14y agoYou test new drugs on humans to see if they will work on humans. The purpose of new drugs is to see if they will treat a disease that humans have. First the drugs are developed in the lab. Then they are tested on animals. If the animals survive they are tested on a group of ten humans. This is phase one. If those ten survive and the drug works with them, the test goes to phase two. Phase two tests the drug in several hundred people. If the drug works with them and does very little damage, it will go to phase three. Phase three, determines ideal dosage and involves several thousand people. Then if it works, the drug will be marketed. The manufacturer will know the drug works and can treat patients. Most new drugs do not work or have serious side effects. You might read about a new miracle cure. Then you discover that it killed a number of people in phase one or phase 2 of trials. A number of cancer patients were willing to try a new drug for phase one of a study. It was their only hope. They did not care if they only had a 10% chance of survival. Still, you test new drugs starting with a small number of humans so that you only kill a small number of humans instead of selling the new miracle cure to thousands and killing thousands.
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∙ 13y agoincase there are any serious side effects
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How are new AIDS drugs tested?
AIDS drugs are tested on people infected with the disease.
Are animal medicines tested on animals?
Experimental drugs and vaccines are tested on animals. Other medicines that are tested on animals include new cancer drugs and medicine for HIV.
What drugs are tested for in union jobs in new jersey?
Prositution
Why are the new medicines tested?
new medicines are tested to ensure that they work on the right aspect of what they are made for and to see if any side-effects can be harmful or worse, fatal, to human beings.
Is new technology is good for health?
Not necessarily, sometimes this new technology has not been tested enough, or a combination of drugs can be fatal if not been tested. How many times have you seen drugs called back due to being very harmful on human beings?
Was the atomic bomb tested somewhere before you used it on Japan?
Yes. New Mexico during the predawn hours of July 16, 1945. was where the first atomic bomb was tested.
The majority of new chemical molecules that are tested as new drugs come from?
the synthesis of new chemical chemical by chemists.
Where was the atomic bomb tested before hiroshima?
Alamagordo, New Mexico
Animals are commonly used in medical experimentation. In some cases, they are used to test theeffects of pharmaceutical drugs. New medical procedures are also often tested on animals beforethey are ever used on human beings. Some people believe this?
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What new illegal drugs are used today-?
The new types of illegal drugs getting abused in the current world are recreational drugs and designer drugs. This are just a redesign of the older illicit drugs. Such drugs may include synthetic hallucinogens, cocaine and ecstasy.
How do you use viability in a sentence?
The viability of the new product was tested before we put it into general use.
Where was the bomb tested before it was dropped in japan?
Los Alomos in New Mexico. It was known as the Manhattan Project.
