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‣ Average review time for a new drug -answer✓✓18 months
‣ Sales Team -answer✓✓Pg 7
‣ The "engine of innovation," focused on discovering or inventing
promising new product. -answer✓✓Research & Development
‣ This includes supply chain, manufacturing, trade, and distribution
functions of the business. -answer✓✓Manufacturing & Operations
‣ In 2012, FDA regulators approved 39 new drugs for use in the U.S. -
answer✓✓True
‣ 3,070 new meds are in development for cancer. -answer✓✓True
‣ Define Off-label -answer✓✓Usage of a medication for purposes other
than the specific ones appearing on the label
,‣ Toxicity -answer✓✓The extent, quality, or degree to which a substance
is poisonous or harmful to the body
‣ Institutional review Board (IRB) -answer✓✓A committee of
physicians, staticians, community advocated, and others which ensure
that a clinical trial is ethical and that the rights of the study participants
are protected. All clinical trials must be approved by an IRB before they
begin.
‣ Placebo -answer✓✓Inactive pill, liquid, or powder that has no
treatment value aka sugar pill
‣ Edema -answer✓✓Swelling
‣ Asymptomatic -answer✓✓Without signs or symptoms
‣ Clinical Pharmacology -answer✓✓The study of the effects and
movement of drugs in the human body
‣ Anatomy -answer✓✓The study of basic structures of the body
‣ Physiology -answer✓✓The study of how those body structures
function
,‣ Basic clinical pharmacology involves 3 main concepts -
answer✓✓Pharmacodynamics, Pharmacokinetics, drug distribution and
elimination.
‣ Pharmacodynamics -answer✓✓Study of the biochemical and
physiological effects of drugs and their mechanisms of action i.e. the
study of what a drug does to the body. It describes the therapeutic effects
of drugs (pain relief, blood pressure reduction, their side effects and their
sites of action.
‣ Pharmacokinetics -answer✓✓Study of how a drug is processed by the
body, with emphasis on the time required for absorption, duration of
action, distribution, and method of excretion. The study of how the body
affects drugs.
‣ Drug distribution & elimination -answer✓✓Drug delivery systems,
route of administration , modes of excretion.
‣ Plasma -answer✓✓The liquid portion of the blood that carries proteins
and other substances
‣ Organs -answer✓✓Specialized cells and tissues grouped together to
perform specific body function for a common purpose. (Kidney, heart,
intestines, and skin)
‣ Nucleus -answer✓✓Brain of the cell that regulates all activities.
, ‣ Proteins -answer✓✓A nutrient made up of of chains of amino acids
‣ Fats -answer✓✓A nutrient stored in special body tissues as a great
source of reserve energy
‣ Carbohydrates -answer✓✓A nutrient that is the body's immediate
source of energy. It's broken down to glucose and used for immediate
metabolic reactions.
‣ Vitamins -answer✓✓A nutrient substance necessary for growth,
development, and normal regulation of metabolic processes. Must be
taken from outside the body.
‣ Minerals -answer✓✓A nutrient necessary for bodily purposes such as
the balance of body fluid
‣ Water is NOT a nutrient -answer✓✓True
‣ Body's Major Systems -answer✓✓Cardiovascular, Respiratory,
nervous, musculoskeletal, reproductive, immune
‣ Absorption -answer✓✓How the drug passes from its side of
administration into the bloodstream