General Topics
- Clinical significance – a conclusion that an intervention has an effect that is of practical meaning to patients
- Drug discovery – the identification of candidates, synthesis, characterization, screening, and assays for therapeutic efficacy
- Drug development – the process of taking a new chemical through the stages necessary to allow testing in clinical trials
- Biotechnology – the technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms to make or modify products or processes for specific use
- Biopharmaceutical – a drug produced using biotechnology
- Clinical trial – an experiment with human subjects to assess safety and efficacy of drugs
- Academic clinical trials – clinical trials run at academic centers (e.g., medical schools, academic hospitals, and universities)
- Clinical trials unit – biomedical research units dedicated to conducting clinical trials
- Epidemiology – the study of factors affecting the health and illness of populations
- Epidemiological methods – statistical techniques used in epidemiology
- Evidence-based medicine – the assessment of the quality of evidence relevant to the risks and benefits of medical treatments
- Pharmacology – the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and drugs that alter normal biochemical function
- Biopharmacology – the pharmacology of biopharmaceuticals
- Clinical pharmacology – the scientific discipline focused on rational drug development and utilization in therapeutics
- Pharmacokinetics – the study of the fate of drugs administered to the body
- Bioequivalence – the biological equivalence of two preparations of a drug
- Pharmacodynamics – the study of the biochemical and physiological effects of drugs on the body
- Pharmacometrics – the science of interpreting and describing pharmacology in a quantitative fashion
- Pharmacovigilance – the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects of medicines
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