Summary
All new drugs have to be thoroughly tested before they are licensed and made available to the public. But it can take years for them to go from "the bench to the bedside".
All prospective drugs must go through the same process before they can be considered by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) for approval, and only one per cent of new medicines make it to this stage.See the full content of this document
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Focus: Lengthy Process From the Bench to the Bedside
First the new drug must be tested in a laboratory, and if the results are pro...
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