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What is Drug Development

Global Supply Chains in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Is defined as the process of developing new medications according to the demand and need in the market for curing of diseases and protecting from further infections.
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Pharmaceutical Development Process
Yaashikaa Ponnambalam Ragini (SSN College of Engineering, India)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5921-4.ch006
Abstract
The most significant attribute of the pharmaceutical industry is its creations and advancements. The innovation of new drugs is necessary for improving the quality of human life and duration. Pharmaceutical drug development is a time-consuming, costly, and crucial process. The essential goal of drug development is to discover a dosage or dosage scale of a drug application that is both efficient in curing the desired disease and safe. Clinical trials including newly developed drugs that are directed in a progression of successive steps called stages to decide the security and efficacy of the new drug moreover the viability against the targeted diseases. There are four phases through which clinical trials are conducted. An investigational item can be assessed in more than one stage all the while in various clinical trials, and some clinical trials may cover two unique stages.
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