Clinical Trials
A clinical trial is a research study conducted in human participants to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a medicine to improve patient’s health. Clinical trials conducted on new medicines and sponsored by pharmaceutical companies can only be started after a compound has survived rigorous pre-clinical development work, which involves laboratory testing on animals (chemical/biological/pharmacological/toxicological). It is only when these tests show favourable and promising results that a company can proceed to assess the medicine in humans.
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