True or False!
Random!
Fill in The Blanks!
Stage, Phase, and Trial Questions!
Toughies!
100
True or False, Your body needs medicine when you're healthy
False
100
What are two requirements that a potential drug has to meet in order to be selected for further research?
-it isn't poisonous -it'll be effective against the disease -it won't break down too quickly in the body -no major problems can be forseen for making it on to a larger scale
100
A method known as ________ is used to test new products in development.
Screening
100
How can compounds be given to humans in clinical trials?
Only once the compound has gone through both in vivo and in vitro tests
100
Does the targeting part of the biological process that causes the problem come before or after the discovery?
Before
200
True or False, Understanding and determining a way to treat a disease takes a few years compared to a few weeks
True
200
What protects a company from other companies manufacturing the same compound?
A patent
200
Scientists use ________ , including high-throughout screening (HTS), combinational chemistry and computer stimulation to fasten and simplify the discovery of potentially useful new compounds.
Sophisticated Techniques
200
How many phases are there in clinical trials?
Three phases
200
What kind of test used to be done in glass test tubes or petri dishes?
"in vitro" tests
300
True or False, Large scale studies consist of 1-10 people
False
300
How long does a patent last for?
20 years
300
Only 1 in every 5,000-10,000 compounds that are screened eventually become a(n)_______.
Approved drug
300
In what Phase does small numbers of 20-80 healthy volunteers take a short course of the medicine?
Phase 1
300
What kind of test uses laboratory animals and are vital for safety checks?
"in vivo" tests
400
True or False, There are longer term studies in health volunteers during Phase 2
True
400
True or False, Fewer than 100 new prescription medicines are yielded each year from the millions that are tested
True
400
After ________ approval, problems of production methods and costs must be worked out before manufacturing begins.
FDA
400
After the trials in what Phase will the company ask the Medicine Control Agency for permission in running trials on patients?
Phase 1
400
Before screening an antibiotic, what is a sample first placed in?
Bacterial culture
500
True or False, Companies don't have to complete all three Phases in order to submit their results to Medicine Control Agency in order to apply for a license for the medicine
False
500
What is the range of new chemical compounds that are rapidly tested in libraries that start this scientific process of developing and testing medicines?
Thousands to millions
500
Most pharmaceutical production plants are highly _______.
Automated
500
What is the last stage in the long process of developing and testing medicines?
The actual manufacturing of drugs
500
What must the U.S Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) do after a drug successfully passes animal and clinical tests?
Review the drug's performance on human patients before approving the substance for commercial use
M
e
n
u