New Test Finds Hidden Toxicity Of Antidepressants Earlier In Development

Monday, December 15, 2014 - 13:10 in Health & Medicine

Though drugs spend years in development and hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars are spent in increasingly demanding clinical trials before approval, a lot of prescription drugs get added warning labels - or can even be withdrawn - after release to the public because of hidden toxicity that clinical trials did not find.  A new toxicity test invented at the University of Utah could make it possible to uncover dangerous side effects earlier in pharmaceutical development. read more

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