When pharmaceutical companies develop a novel drug for the market, several steps are required to assess and regulate its safety, effectiveness, manufacturability, and reliability. These processes, and ...

Creating a new drug involves significant time, effort, and resources. Many assume drug development is straightforward, with final products approved fairly quickly, but the drug approval timeline can ...

Medicinal chemistry, also known as pharmaceutical chemistry, is a branch of chemistry focused on the development of new drugs and the improvement of existing ones. It is an interdisciplinary field ...

Economic incentives and patent protections drive development of innovative medications. Drug prices are determined by consumer demand, not production costs. Therefore, governmental regulation risks ...

Glucagon-like peptide agonists (GLP-1s, like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro) have been hailed as breakthroughs. From statins to Viagra, occasionally a drug development breakthrough occurs that is ...

Some drugs may seem like they were named by throwing darts at the alphabet – but the process of drug naming is actually very intentional. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Dr. Dave Latshaw, CEO ...

Researchers at USF Health are making dramatic strides in understanding how new opioid compounds work inside the body to provide pain relief, offering greater hope that new classes of these drugs may ...

Sandra Gostynska and Augen Pioszak, Ph.D., of the University of Oklahoma are authors of a new paper in Science Signaling that sheds light on the hormone amylin and the receptors it targets in the ...

G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are proteins triggered by ligands (protein-binding chemicals) from outside cells to ...

Developing high-quality, safe, and effective drugs is a complex process that requires varied scientific skills and stringent regulatory assessments. Drug development is a process that spans many years ...