Design of clinical trials
May 20th, 2008There are many Americans that rely on their prescription drugs to help them feel better, control their disease, and even help to keep from getting sicker. So it is always a wonder why so many criticize the industry on who expensive these particular medicines cost the general public. What needs to be understood that these medicines take years and hundreds of millions of dollars to bring to the market. There are several phases that a drug must go through before it is brought to market to assure it’s efficacy and safety. The clinical trials have to be designed and patients recruited to test the experimental drug against standard of care to insure that the medicine will bring value to the patient. During the clinical trials the use of a experienced clinical laboratory service can help in avoiding duplicate efforts and bring an economy of scales and can even help to reduce the time to market. This is done as the labs that are responsible for the trials have established trial sites and know where and how to recruit for the study which can take a huge amount of time which will increase the length of the trial. So if you are one of the millions of Americans who rely on the pharmaceutical industry and their products remember what it takes to actually get that pill to market.





