Zohydro And A New Obstacle To Medical Innovation

Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 20:01 in Health & Medicine

One of the major goals of pharmaceutical companies is to get through FDA approval so that they can begin selling a drug on the market.  This step is so important that pharmaceutical companies actually make decisions regarding drugs in their pipeline based on the results of other drug approvals.  Further, pharmaceutical companies will choose safe diseases to initially test drugs, even if there is no preclinical indication that the drug will be effective for those diseases.  For instance, they go the ocular route because that is not a systemic administration of drugs.   read more

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