• Question: How do you test the drugs that you make?

    Asked by Mr. Random to Aislinn on 2 Feb 2015. This question was also asked by Dawid Karczewski.
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      Aislinn Coghlan answered on 2 Feb 2015:

      The drug goes through clinical trials. This means that it is given to patients who may be out of other options and they are willing to take a risk. Before it even gets this far there is years if testing to make sure it won’t harm anyone.

      Patients are given a placebo,which is a pretend medicine with no healing powers, or the trial medicine. If the patients on the trial medicine improve a lot more than the placebo, you’re onto a winner!

      Once approved, the medicine we manufacture is tested multiple times for lots of different things to make sure it is 100% pure and safe. Every single vial is inspected before it is shipped out to doctors and hospitals for use.

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