Past, present and future of drug safety: Editorial
Michael Rieder,
Andrej Belančić
Abstract:For most of recorded history, drug therapy was primarily conducted based on traditional beliefs and anecdotal reports with agents that were often ineffective, frequently not expensive and frequently fairly innocuous. This changed dramatically with the Therapeutic Revolution when the discovery in 1935 that bacterial infection could be cured with specific therapy produced paradigm changing effects on health care and medical practice. 1 The excitement over the use of sulfanilamide therapy was however soon muted w… Show more
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