Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Explained in Simple Terms

Often times people will wonder why drugs seemDrug companies have spent millions of dollars over
so expensive and why a cure for cancer hasn'tthe course of decades working on new drugs
been found yet. Mankind, after all, has recentlythat in fact did work. In final clinical testing on
put a robot on Mars and also landed a man on thehumans however, it was discovered that the
moon decades ago. The fact is, that drugs aredrugs in question presented an element of risk
very expensive and time consuming to developthat was deemed unacceptable and that was the
and produce and a cure for cancer is beingend of the drug as well as the money and
developed even as your are reading this.manpower invested in them.
The Research ProcessSo you must bear in mind when you buy a drug
Medical researchers employed by drug companiesat the pharmacy that you aren't just paying for
have found many different ways to kill cancerthe drug itself but you are also paying for its
cells already but the trick is to kill cancer cells indevelopment as well as the development of
humans with out killing the patient. The problemsnewer and better drugs for future generations.
with bringing a cure from the test tube to theIt Takes Years and Years
actual patient are innumerable and it takes yearsEven after a cure for a disease is discovered and
to solve all of them. The truth is, that searchinga drug is developed to deliver the cure it takes on
for effective drugs is very expensive and timeaverage over a decade of testing before the
consuming, so drug companies have to bedrug can be made available for the general public.
selective with regards to where they direct theirThis means that if aspirin was discovered today it
research money.would be ten years from now before you could
Not All New Drugs Clear Testing for Approvalbuy some and use it to cure a headache.