Pharma Flashcards
Dietary supplement:
botanical & herbal,without prescription ,without FDA or other governmental premarketing review of efficacy or safety, and with little government oversight of purity, variations in potency, or adverse effects.,
Alternative medicine:
Treatment that are not generally recognized by medical community as standard or conventional medical approaches
Controlled clinical trials:
A clinical trial that compares a group of subjects who are receiving a treatment with a closely matched group of individuals who are not receiving the treatment
Placebo
An inactive medication made to resemble the investigation formulation as much as possible
Placebo effect
Is when a person has a response to a fake treatment.