• Question: are you confident that the drugs will be safe for use

    Asked by to Daren on 13 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Daren Fearon answered on 13 Jun 2014:

      Any drugs that are approved for use by people have to go through very careful trials to prove that they work and that they are safe. This is actually the longest and most expensive part of the drug discovery process and is the step in which most potential drugs (or clinical candidates) fail. How safe a drug will be is difficult to predict early on so these trials are very important and are very strict.

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