Healthcare IT News: Drug Development

Drug development is a process of discovering and designing new drugs. It involves exploiting biological processes to trigger a therapeutic benefit. A newly developed drug should have many qualities, such as affinity, selectivity efficacy, potency, metabolic stability, and oral bioavailability. Despite many advances in the field of drug technology, drug development is still a complicated process (capital intensive, lengthy, inefficient) and has a slow rate of therapeutic discovery. The drug development process involves several steps, including the identification and validation of candidates, synthesis and characterization of drugs, screening assays for therapeutic efficiency, etc.