Clinical trials

Clinical trials

Clinical trials are sets of tests performed for medical research and drug development which is used to extract safety and efficacy data.

Industry: Medical devices; Pharmaceutical

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Food and Drug Administration

Pharmaceutical; Clinical trials

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency responsible for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of all drugs, biologics, vaccines, and medical devices, including those used in the ...

pharmacokinetics

Pharmaceutical; Clinical trials

The processes (in a living organism) of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of a drug or vaccine.

placebo

Pharmaceutical; Clinical trials

any dummy medical treatment; originally, a medicinal preparation having no specific pharmacological activity against the patient's illness or complaint given solely for the psychophysiological ...

hypothesis

Pharmaceutical; Clinical trials

a supposition that appears to explain a group of phenomena and is advanced as a basis for further investigation; a proposition that is subject to proof or to an experimental or statistical test.

preclinical

Pharmaceutical; Clinical trials

before a disease becomes clinically recognizable.

An unfavorable change in the health of a participant, including abnormal laboratory findings, that happens during a clinical study or within a certain time period after the study is over. This may or ...