drug trial
Testing new medicine
A drug trial is a controlled study testing a medication's safety and effectiveness in humans.
Trials proceed through phases: early phases test safety on small groups, later phases test efficacy on larger populations.
Pharmaceutical companies conduct drug trials before seeking regulatory approval.
The drug trial showed promising results for patients with advanced cancer.
- clinicalEmotionally detached, medically precise
- placeboInactive therapeutic substitute
- control groupUntreated subjects for comparison
- FDAU.S. health regulator
- participantOne who takes part
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- Medical Advancespenicillin, vaccine, X-ray, insulin pump, pacemaker
- experimentsexperiment, experiments, test, tests, experimental group
- trialsretrial, mistrial, dry run, practice test, pilot test
- medical researchmedical research, biomedical research, cancer research, clinical research, clinical studies
- animal researchanimal testing, vaccine testing, pharmacokinetics, bioavailability, cancer research
- clinical trialsplacebo, double-blind, control group, double blind, phase 1
drug trialevidence-based medicine
Clinical care guided by research
standard of care · routine care · clinical practice · folk medicine
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