Posts Tagged ‘Pharmaceutical Companies’

Drug Development and Discovery in an Industrial Context

Preface A growing industrial demand for high throughput screening of new molecular entities (NME) has spurred great advances in various divisions of scientific development. Researchers has begun to combine various scientific methods to meet the competitive demands in modern drug development, and as a consequence optimized individual phases of drug development. Technological improvements should ensure high quality [...]

How Do Dangerous Drugs Get Approved?

The short answer is that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) works for the pharmaceutical companies, not the American people. Since 1992 a large portion of the FDA’s budget has come from drug companies instead of federal funding. The pharmaceutical industry finances the agency which regulates it. To make matters worse, the FDA does [...]