Dec
11
But I do not know what that is, so if someone could clarify to me what it is and how abortion would benefit for stem cell research that would be fantastic . Thanks!
JAIME
Jun
24
Drug Research – How It’s Manipulated
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We want to reckon that the research done by the pharmaceutical companies is honest, but more than one news tale has shown otherwise. If we had the political will, or if the FDA was less political, drug trials could be made more honest very nearly immediately with one simple procedure. Unfortunately, that change has been fought by the drug companies. Let’s see why.
The drug companies probably very nearly never directly tamper with clinical drug trials, nor are they likely to change the reported results afterwards. Dishonesty or criminal behavior like that is probably very rare in drug research, because it isn’t needed. More subtle ways are unfilled .
How To Manipulate Drug Research Results
The most run of the mill way to manipulate the results of drug research, is the simplest of all. If you want to show that a new pharmaceutical works, just get rid of the trials that show it doesn’t, and keep the ones that show some effect. Investigations have demonstrated that this is run of the mill , that negative data is often hidden or discarded.
Infer a new drug is given to twelve groups of broadcast who share a given disease. It appears to help the broadcast in four of the groups, but the subjects in the other eight groups have no improvement or perhaps even get sicker or have serious side effects. Differing results from one trial to the next is run of the mill , since broadcast get better or worse for many reasons. This is why many trials are necessary to be statistically significant.
What if in this case, the company chose that only the four trials with positive results are vital , and they quietly get rid of the data from the other eight. Suddenly a drug with no real benefit appears to have helped in every clinical trial – at least every one we’ll know about. It is very terrible science, of course, but one of the most run of the mill ways pharmaceutical companies manipulate drug research results.
How do we stop this? Researchers have been recommending an inexpensive solution to this conundrum for decades: make the companies register all trials, so none can be “lost.” To use the results of any drug research to get a new pharmaceutical approved, a company would have to register the trial before it starts , in a compulsory international trials registry. It would add very small to their costs.
Naturally the drug companies are against this simple thought , and certainly have their arguments to present. The most likely real reason they are fighting it is that it doesn’t allow them as much control over the “truth” or the results of drug research. And with our own FDA staffed by their friends and former coworkers, we can expect this dishonesty to go on.
EMMANUEL
Jun
15
The real subject of pharmaceutical research and development is very broad and covers many areas of products development and analysis. As a direct result of the broad scope of the research and development work that is being done in the pharmaceutical industry, there is wide variety of unique development programs as a whole to deal with the huge number of intrinsic issues related to the work.
More Effective Drug Therapies
One result of the degree that pharmaceutical research is spread out and diversified is that a proportionally large number of pharmaceutical companies engaged in it are presently operating online as well as off line to expedite the completion of their ongoing projects. Bold new, innovative development concepts and newer more progressive project management concepts and techniques have all combined to lead towards the development of newer more effective products and therapeutic treatments.
Two Seperate Catagories
Commonly, pharmaceutical research and development is bisected into two discreet categories with discovery being one and development being the other. As a general rule, pharmaceutical discovery tends to be focused in the area of biological and chemical considerations. Development, on the other hand, encompasses a large number of aspects, including but not excluded to drug and therapy development, safety and security issues as well as clinical research and other medical aspects.
Multitudes of Legal Considerations
Still one more area of pharmaceutical research and development deals with the multitudes of legal issues that take in the pharmaceutical industry as a whole, such a patents and transfer technicalities. The testing process alone, to insure viability and safety after the real development process on a drug has been completed can take up to ten years. In the end though , all of the complexities of pharmaceutical research and development converge as a whole for the run of the mill goal of producing effective and affordable drug therapies.
SANTOS