How Did Good Clinical Practice Start?
Clinical Research is probably the most regulated industry in the world, and for good reasons. The Pharmaceutical industry provides the majority of medicinal products taken in the developed world, and the drugs developed must be effective and as safe as we can make them.
Like much of our modern life, we take it for granted that there are strict rules governing clinical research - but it was not always like that.
Good Clinical Practice has developed over time, driven by three main factors. Rollover the images to find out what they are...
In many cases significant advances in clinical practice have come from medical or public health disasters. We will consider two areas where unethical behaviours have led to better regulations for clinical trials.
