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    There are several hazards and risk with prenatal development. I believe that ‘Drugs’ has a huge impact on prenatal development. Prenatal substance abuse continues to be a significate problem in the country and possess import health risk for the developing fetus. Abusing narcotics during pregnancy increases your risk of miscarriage or still birth, preterm labor, placenta abruption, fetal death and even maternal death. It can also cause impaired fetal growth and lead to a host of health problems

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    Undoubtedly, a huge role in the women abuses plays by the biological characteristics of the development of drug addiction. The most important are features of a constitution and hormonal difference, which significantly affect the pharmacokinetics of drugs (NIAA, 2015). In general, women have a lower activity of hepatic enzymes related to drug metabolism. Resulting from the body weight and a higher ratio of fat tissue in relation to the muscle, there is a higher concentration of surfactant in the blood

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    Inter-relationship between pathways to drug discovery, drug development and drug manufacturing When it comes to small-molecule drugs specifically, the journey to eventually becoming an approved and marketed drug ready for the public is an exhausting and comprehensive odyssey which involves the following components: basic research, finding the medicine, initial testing, complex clinical trials involving human beings and then eventually hard-sought after approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (Corr

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    Testing and development of new drugs can be a long, strenuous and costly project for a manufacturing company. In 2003 drug companies spent $2.4 million on bringing new drugs to the market. By 2005 that figured ballooned to $802 million. If you think that is crazy, now experimental drugs cost pharmaceutical companies $312 million just for the post approval process of the drug and a whopping $2.9 billion to place the new drug on the market. The whole process can take 8-12 years until completion.

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    Describe and discuss recent developments in drug discovery. As our society is evolving so is diseases many drugs that were previously effective to cure certain diseases are simply not as effective any more or on the other hand there isn’t sufficient medicine to battle the current new health problems that are arising with our evolving society for example obesity and a range of cardiovascular diseases. In addition many of the medicine available today either only treats the symptom or cures the disease

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    Sanofi Genzyme is a branch of the Sanofi Corporation that specializes in the development and manufacturing of products to treat a variety of rare diseases. The Allston Landing Facility (ALF) currently produces a single enzyme replacement therapy which treats patients with Type 1 Gaucher disease. This treatment falls within the classification of an Orphan drug which is a drug or biologic that treats a patient population of less than 200,000 within the United States. There is an entire segment of

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    influence over their children 's development and although kids come with their own temperaments, it is ultimately the parents ' job to provide an interface with the world to help the child prepare for complete independence in a rapidly changing world. Parents play the lead supporting role in their children 's learning and development and influence a child 's well-being. But what happens when a child’s parents are not actively involved in their lives and abuse drugs? This study asks: Is there is a

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    TRM6002 Essay 2 – Drug Development State what the target for the drug imatinib is, and why that target was a good choice for a drug discovery project. Summary/Abstract: Until the 1990’s, drug discovery relied on forward pharmacology where trial and error produced medications that were usually involved in changing DNA synthesis and/or cell division. These medications were efficacious, but had issues with systemic toxicities due to their non-selectivity of diseased cells or disease causing proteins

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    to antipsychotics The drug development journey leading to olanzapine (Zyprexa) reaching the market did not always follow the steps of rational drug design. Inspired by the first antipsychotic drugs, it took a while from the first discovery of antipsychotic drugs until Zyprexa was developed. The first antipsychotics were come across largely by chance. They were not specifically tailored to a relevant biological effector as rational drug design promotes. Even now as most drugs, Zyprexa is not quite

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    A diverse and sustainable compound library to aid drug development and sales. ________________________________________ Public Profile The consumer-facing side of your profile is written so anybody can easily understand your product or service. Information about the investment opportunity is detailed on the “Business Plan” side of the profile to maintain compliance with SEC ‘general solicitation’ regulation. Carmolex Inc. 3-5 sentence “quick pitch” outlining key takeaways that will be explored

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