The Importance Of Prescription Pharmaceutical Testing

Before prescription drugs are made available to the public they have to go through an experimental phase. Scientist have to test the drug to ensure its safety and efficacy. These scientists have to follow guidelines provide by the FDA and other organization as they test the drugs. “Researchers closely monitor these studies and FDA reviews results in detail to be sure that giving the drug to humans is safe” (FDA, 2016). These guidelines are based on ethical principle to prevent scientist to conduct immoral studies to ensure nonmaleficence and promote beneficence. “Pre-marketing assessment of the safety aspects of an application is critical to the determination of whether a drug can be approved and this assessment represents about half of the effort involved in a review, both in time spent and in documentation” (FDA, 2016). As we can see, the FDA plays an important role in mandating safety and efficacy studies for prescription drugs prior to approving and releasing them on the market.
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If patients already know their illness by name, they should do some personal research on which drugs are used to alleviate their symptoms and cure their illness. When they gather the information, they should know what to expect from the medical professions. “From the FDA perspective, once the FDA approves a drug, healthcare providers generally may prescribe the drug for an unapproved use when they judge that it is medically appropriate for their patient (FDA, 2009). If the medicine provide by their medical professional is not what they expected it to be, they can either research the name of the medicine to see if it is off-label use or they can contact the FDA. The should look for the side effect and try to obtain the medicine approved to treat their illness instead of using the off-label