Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Where is package insert?


The drug that passes the test of the clinical trial is approved by FDA. How will the medical practitioner that suggests the drug to treat your diseases will know about the ingredients of the drug. The document that details the complete information about the new drug approved by FDA is known as package insert. Each package insert of the drug includes the following information.
  • Chemical structure
  • Information about how the body absorbs, distributes, metabolizes, and excretes the drug
  •   Results from some clinical trials
  • What specific circumstances the drug is used for
  • Dosing and administration schedules
  • Side effects
  •  Contraindications
This information is available on the interment as well. The medical practitioner uses the drug to treat the diseases for which the FDA has approved it for.

Monday, 28 November 2011

Clinical Trial Bring The New Drug Makena To Treat The Premature Births


Clinical trial is the main gateway for the drug to hit the public market. The clinical trials now bring the new drug Mekena to treat the premature births in the women. The women that give the birth to the premature baby will have the risk of reoccurance when compared to the women who delivers developed baby. FDA approved Mekena is designed to treat the risk factor the women that give the birth to premature babies.

The clinical trial conducted with the group of 463 women with singleton pregnancies and gave the positive results. The Mekena treated women experienced the drastic increase in their time period of delivery when compared to the patients that received the placebo.

Friday, 25 November 2011

Legal Ethics In The Medical Trials Are Moving To The Corner

The process of the clinical trials has to pass through much regulatory compliance to hit the public market. The surging clinical trials in the US are cornering these ethics by faking the data of the clinical trial process to bring in the quick results. The regulations and ethics on are too lengthy and pharmaceutical companies are looking out for a jump start to speed up the process of bringing the drug to the public market. This is crushing the underlying reason of the medical trials. I don’t say that we have to cut down the rules and ethics of the clinical trials. They are very important to ensure the safety and efficiency of the clinical trials. Instead of lengthy regulatory process, they have to run in parallel to cut down the time length of the clinical trials. This will avoid the jump start of the pharmaceutical companies to escape the ethics and regulations of the clinical trials.

Cycle Of Commercial Drug Research And Development


Medical field is always excited about the new developments in the field. The high ended technology of the medical field is due to the constant research that was under taken by the medical experts for the years. Thanks to pharmaceutical companies who have invested such huge in amount in conducting the research and development and getting them approved. The new innovation in the medical field does not stop at formulation of the drug in the clinical trial process, once the medicine is formulated by the health experts to treat the particular diseases; the drug development is relegated to other companies that formulate the medicine by deciding the correct dosage. After that the most crucial part of the drug development process, seeking the approval from the regulatory authorities, is done by conducting the clinical trial. Clinical trial is the process conducted to ensure the safety and efficiency of the medicine before it hits the public market.

Monday, 21 November 2011

Point-Of-Care Clinical Trial Increases Success Rate Of The Clinical Trial


Success rate in the clinical trial has become dream come true in the medical world in the recent times. The increased expenditure, lack of data availability, insufficient volunteer participation has led to the failure of the clinical trials today.  Erasing all these draw backs in the medical trial emerged the point of care clinical trials. These kind of medical trial target on increasing the success rate of the medical trials and deliver best care to the patients while learning from each experience and redefining that care. 

Point-of care Clinical trials are very helpful in suppressing the expenditure and cutting down the length of the medical trial. These methods of the medical trials help to reduce the time consumption and randomize patient selection without eliminating the potential bias of why certain patients got certain treatments. Point-of-care allows the researchers to compare treatments on a local patient population, then immediately implement the best alternative into the physician ordering system of a clinic. The decisions are tailored to specific populations, based on their genetic, geographical and socioeconomic compositions, so any drawbacks in the clinical trial are easily detected and tailored to increase the success rate of the clinical trial.