Posted by Squiggles on April 7, 2007, at 6:52:13
In reply to New drugs that the FDA are studying and may aprove, posted by football on April 7, 2007, at 0:01:26
> "It takes on average 12 years and over US$350 million to get a new drug from the laboratory onto the pharmacy shelf. Once a company develops a drug, it undergoes around three and a half years of laboratory testing, before an application is made to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
> (FDA) to begin testing the drug in humans. Only one in 1000 of the compounds that enter laboratory testing will ever make it to human testing."
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> Woozah!
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> Possible future useful drugs for us:
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> Nuvigil - Just like Provigil, except that it works twice as long. Sounds great, as long they don't decide to charge twice as much, as well.
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> Zenvia - The company behind ii is trying to get it approved for "involuntary emotional expression disorder." I have no idea what the hell that is, but it sounds anxiety/depression related, so maybe it could be helpful.
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> Pristiq - A new SNRI being developed for major depression. Can be taken be by males and females, but has the additional benefit of helping with menopause problems in females.
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> Bifeprunox - A new atypical antipsychotic that produces far fewer side effects then its rival drugs.
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> Silenor - New sleep aid that has no possibility of dependency or abuse.
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> Invega - Already approved by the FDA, Invega is another atypical anti psychotic.
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> SPD465 - The drug company is trying to get it approved for adult ADHD. Has the same active ingredients as Adderall XR, but works for 16 hours.
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> Indiplon - Another sleep aid.
>So much money, work and bureaucracy, and yet they rarely come up with anything that hasn't been a clone for the past 25 years, or a quality that doesn't have dubious advantages. The no-addiction property sounds like a backfire, as rarely do sedatives work if they are not a little bit addicting.
Why are the old drugs so good in comparison to the new ones? What has happened to scientific research? And why are there so *many* drugs of the same class on the market?
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