Discovery of a new drug

Have you ever think how people discover a new drug?

Every day around the world, many people will sick. No matter how worst it is, they still need to take medication to recover. Do they ever know what the medicines that they consumed are? How safe the medicines are? Do they really cure when they have that medication? Do they concern whether it is placebo or original drug?

Don’t worry people..

Because why? Yes, you can know what the medications that you consumed are. How? Just a reminder, you need to check the label outside the packaging and also ask your doctor who prescribed the drug to you. Moreover, yes, the drug is safe and proven that it is safe. Why? For a new drug to be marketed, it has to go through a long and hard procedure. Let me let you all know how a new drug discovered. The discovery of a ‘sexy’ molecule which later will become the drug is not as easy as ABC because our scientist put a lot of time and their effort to find the most important and desired molecule. It will take many years before they found it.

Furthermore, after they discovered the so-called ‘sexy’ molecule, it will not stop there because various steps and procedures that need to go through in order to turn it into a safe new drug. There is where the new drug has to undergo animal lab testing and clinical trial which comprise of 4 phases and again, it will take several years. Again, it is take many years  and guys, it is not a simple test.

The most crucial time of the new drug development is where the clinical trial takes place. Why is it? When we defined the term of clinical trial, it is always refer to a testing something on human being. Yes, the drug has undergone animal lab testing, and if it is successful test, it will proceed to the clinical trial. However, whether it is safe on animal, it doesn’t mean that it will safe to human being yet. Therefore, the people who volunteered to be the subject in a clinical trial, they are brave people who would face unknown risk. Pity them, right? Don’t misunderstood on this situation because those people are helping usactually and we should thank them for that.

After that, when the new drug successfully tested on animal and human being, it will  be marketed to the consumers especially the patients. Then again, please thank the people who take part in the  process of discovery of the new drug especially the so-called ‘human guinea pig’ which is the clinical trial’s subject.