Failed Drugs
Side Effects
Development Costs
World Health
Legislation
100
This company's Parkinson's drug recently failed in clinical trials.
Who is Phytopharm?
100
According to “9 Really Weird Drug Side Effects” by Fox News, this drug, the only FDA-approved over-the-counter weight loss drug, may leave you with the unpleasant side effects of gas with oily spotting, loose stools, and more frequent stools that may be hard to control.
What is Alli?
100
According to PhRMA, this amount was spent researching over 2,900 compounds for new drugs in 2011.
What is $49 billion?
100
This country was awarded the title of “World’s Healthiest Country” according to Bloomberg’s rankings of the world’s healthiest countries in 2012.
What is Singapore?
100
This former professional basketball player confounded some activists this week when he argued that President Barack Obama has fought AIDS more fiercely than any other president — including George W. Bush, who was widely praised while in office for making worldwide AIDS relief a top international priority.
Who is Magic Johnson?
200
According to Matthew Harper, a member of Forbes Staff, fewer than ______ medicines that start being tested in human clinical trials succeed.
What is 1 in 10?
200
According to listverse.com, some of the side effects of this acne treatment drug include: Rectal bleeding, hirsutism (an overabundance of rapidly-growing hair), psychosis, crying spells (and general bouts of depression), Hepatitis, herpes (possibly), and bone-fractures.
What is Accutane?
200
This is the largest drug maker in the world by revenue, bringing in $67.4 billion in revenue in 2011.
Who is Pfizer?
200
According to the CIA World Factbook, this country has the highest crude death rate in the world.
What is South Africa?
200
This 1906 Act was the first of more than 200 laws that constitute one of the world's most comprehensive and effective networks of public health and consumer protections.
What is The Food and Drugs Act?
300
According to the US Food & Drug Administration (Sept. 6, 2012), drug approval rate has plunged by ______ percent since 2005 while spending on research and development has almost doubled.
What is 40 percent?
300
The use of drugs for unapproved indications—that is, for their side effects—is termed this.
What is off-label use?
300
This drug was designed to treat a rare blood disorder known as paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and is the most expensive drug in the world, costing users $400,000 per year.
What is Soliris?
300
This specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) is concerned with international public health. It was established on April 7, 1948, and has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
300
The East Sitting Hall is situated above the East Room, which has a ______ high ceiling, access to the East Sitting Hall was originally by way of a small set of stairs from the Stair Landing.
What is 22 ft?
400
In 2012, this Pfizer drug to treat Alzheimer’s failed its first clinical trial.
What is bapineuzumab?
400
According to the American Cancer Society, this cancer treatment methodology can cause side effects by damaging normal, healthy cells near the cancer.
What is radiation therapy?
400
According to the Burrill Report on Dec. 7, 2012, out of pocket costs for drug development rose nearly ______ percent from the 1970s to the 2000s
What is 600?
400
According to the World Health Report in 2003, these are the top two causes of death in the world.
What are (1) Ischaemic heart disease and (2) Cerebrovascular disease?
400
This many states have legalized medical marijuana (not including DC).
What is 18?
500
On February 15, 2013, Gilead recalled one lot of this drug due to presence of particulate matter.
What is Vistide?
500
Mounting evidence shows “cannabinoids” in THIS DRUG slow cancer growth, inhibit formation of new blood cells that feed a tumor, and help manage pain, fatigue, nausea, and other side effects. At least The Daily Beast believes this is the case.
What is marijuana?
500
This drug has been made famous by Forbes as the world’s single most expensive drug, coming in at $409,500 a year.
What is Soliris?
500
The single largest preventable cause of cancer in the world is eliminating the use of this agricultural product.
What is tobacco (or tobacco products)?
500
The IRS projects the cheapest health insurance plan available under Obamacare in 2016 will cost each family this amount per year.
What is $20,000.
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