WATCH: How Medicines Are Made

· by FBR Comms · Blog

Learn about the process for how prescription medicines get approved for use. Animals are key to medical product research, development and testing. From animal testing to validate an idea to improved therapeutics and childhood vaccines for many diseases, it usually takes 10 to 15 years and $2.6 billion for a medical discovery to go through evaluation and make it to market. Thanks to animal models, we have drugs to treat humans and pets alike. Animals play a vital role in helping scientists assess a medical product’s safety, benefits and effectiveness before testing with humans.