Drug Development FINAL Flashcards

1
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What was the reason for the Pure food and drug act?

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-Deal with addiction caused by opioids and cocaine.

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What does the pure food and drug act require?

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-Labeling ingredients for patent medicines (“secret ingredients”)

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What was the reason for the Modified food drug and cosmetic act?

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-antibiotics (sulfa drugs) were not soluble so they put in diethylenegylocol that killed a lot of individuals

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4
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What did the modified food drug and cosmetic act require?

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-The drug must be safe (didn’t say that it had to be effective)

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5
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What was the Durham-Humphrey Amendment?

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  • Makes the distinction of Rx vs OTC
  • Looked at the addiction potential
  • Looked at the toxicity
  • What is the indication (self limiting vs non self limiting)
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What is the reason for the Kefauver-Harris Amendment?

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-Thalidomide would cause phocomelia

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What did the Kefauver-Harris amendment require?

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-Safety and efficacy

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8
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What does the FDA regulate?

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  • Food
  • Dietary supplements
  • Bottled water
  • Food additives
  • Drugs
  • Biologics
  • Medical devices
  • Cosmetics
  • Veterinary products
  • Tobacco products
  • Advertising of products
  • Oversee the testing of the drugs
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What does the Dietary supplement health and education act regulate?

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  • Herbal products

- Defines herbal products as foods

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10
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How much money does it cost to develop a drug?

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-1-2 billion

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Animal preclinical testing is controlled by what?

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-Institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC)

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What are the 2 species of animals that are tested?

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  • Rodent

- Depends on what you are looking at testing (pigs and hearts)

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What is an IND?

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  • Investigation new drug

- notice that a new drug will be submitted for FDA consideration

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What is phase I?

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  • Small group of healthy (usually) subjects to test safety, doses, administration and other kinetics
  • Initial clinical phase
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What is phase II?

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  • Small group of subjects with condition to be treated to test safety (still) and efficacy
  • clinical pharmacological phase
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What is phase III?

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  • Extended clinical phase
  • Large group of subjects, using double blind construct, placebos and multi-sites groups to test for statistical efficacy
17
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What is phase IV?

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-Marketing and see how the product does in production

18
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What has to happen before a drug can go in to clinical trials?

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  • FDA approval

- IRB approval

19
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What is IRB?

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  • Institutional review board

- review of proposal for human testing

20
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What is the fast track drug?

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  • Streamline process for urgent situation
  • Qualify for special consideration in FDA-directed process that speeds up the evaluation step and extends the patent for life
21
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What is the Orphan drug act?

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  • For rare disease to encourage drug development (less than 200,000)
  • Gives you increased patent life
  • Tax incentives
22
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What is proprietary?

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-Name brand

23
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What is generic?

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-After patent expires

24
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What does DAW mean on a prescription?

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-Dispense As Written

25
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What is non-prescription drug category one?

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  • Safe and effective for indication

- Most OTCs

26
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What is non-prescription drug category two?

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  • Unsafe or ineffective
  • improper indication
  • Not OTC
27
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What is non-prescription drug category III?

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  • Not sure

- Requires more studies

28
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New drugs are always made prescription for at least how many years before considering their conversion to OTC status?

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-3 years

29
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What is the switching policy?

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-Goes from Rx to OTC

30
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Before you can switch from Rx to OTC status what has to happen?

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  • be a prescription for at least 3 years
  • Good safety record
  • Widely available
  • used frequently to demonstrate a need
  • based on the need to reduce cost
31
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What is an NDA?

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  • New drug application

- the final FDA step of approval/rejection after evaluating all the studies and data from testing phases

32
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what is FTC?

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  • federal trade commission
  • control labelling
  • products in this category cannot be promoted to diagnose, treat, or prevent disease
33
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T or F:

the FDA monitors and performs tests on products

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  • false

- they oversee testing, but do not perform the tests

34
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what 3 things determine the distinction between prescription and OTC drugs?

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  • addiction/abuse liability
  • relative safety
  • intent of use - does it require professional input/control?