Drug Approval

"Drug Approval" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Process that is gone through in order for a drug to receive approval by a government regulatory agency. This includes any required pre-clinical or clinical testing, review, submission, and evaluation of the applications and test results, and post-marketing surveillance of the drug.

Descriptor ID	D017277
MeSH Number(s)	E05.337.300 I01.880.604.605.250.250
Concept/Terms	Drug Approval Drug Approval Approval, Drug Approvals, Drug Drug Approvals Food and Drug Administration Drug Approval Drug Approval Process Drug Approval Process Approval Process, Drug Approval Processes, Drug Drug Approval Processes Process, Drug Approval Processes, Drug Approval New Drug Approval Process New Drug Approval Process New Drug Approval New Drug Approval Approval, New Drug Approvals, New Drug Drug Approval, New Drug Approvals, New New Drug Approvals Food and Drug Administration Drug Approval Process Food and Drug Administration Drug Approval Process

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Drug Approval".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Investigative Techniques [E05]
Evaluation Studies as Topic [E05.337]
Drug Approval [E05.337.300]
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Sociology [I01.880]
Social Control, Formal [I01.880.604]
Legislation, Drug [I01.880.604.605]
Drug and Narcotic Control [I01.880.604.605.250]
Drug Approval [I01.880.604.605.250.250]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Drug Approval".

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drug Approval" by people in this website by year, and whether "Drug Approval" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 37 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2012 and 2015 and 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2000	0	2	2
2002	0	1	1
2003	0	2	2
2004	0	1	1
2007	0	3	3
2008	2	0	2
2009	0	1	1
2010	0	2	2
2011	1	0	1
2012	2	2	4
2013	1	1	2
2014	0	1	1
2015	2	2	4
2016	1	1	2
2017	1	2	3
2020	1	3	4
2021	1	0	1
2025	0	1	1

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Verheij VA, Diecidue RJ, Botman E, Harrington JD, Haga N, Hidalgo-Bravo A, Delai PLR, Madhuri V, Al Mukaddam M, Zhang K, Cho TJ, Morhart R, Keen R, De Cunto CL, Friedman CS, Grunwald Z, Zasloff M, Netelenbos JC, Hsiao E, Kaplan FS, Pignolo RJ, Scott C, Eekhoff EMW. Palovarotene in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: review and perspective. Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2025 Feb; 26(3):291-299.

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Angelo M, Ward L. Aducanumab Fails to Produce Efficacy Results Yet Obtains US Food and Drug Administration Approval. Popul Health Manag. 2021 12; 24(6):638-639.

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Goudra B, Singh PM, Lichtenstein GR. Medical, Political, and Economic Considerations for the Use of MAC for Endoscopic Sedation: Big Price, Little Justification? Dig Dis Sci. 2020 09; 65(9):2466-2472.

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Joynt Maddox KE, Bleser WK, Das SR, Desai NR, Ng-Osorio J, O'Brien E, Psotka MA, Wadhera RK, Weintraub WS, Konig M. Value in Healthcare Initiative: Summary and Key Recommendations. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2020 07; 13(7):e006612.

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Hale PM, Ali AK, Buse JB, McCullen MK, Ross DS, Sabol ME, Tuttle RM, Stemhagen A. Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Surveillance Study: A Case-Series Registry. Thyroid. 2020 10; 30(10):1397-1398.

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Parish LC, Lambert WC. COVID-19, Serendipity, and Strange Interlude: Gloria in Absurdicum with an Apology to Ovid. Skinmed. 2020; 18(3):143-144.

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Penazzato M, Gnanashanmugam D, Rojo P, Lallemant M, Lewis LL, Rocchi F, Saint Raymond A, Ford N, Hazra R, Giaquinto C, Belew Y, Gibb DM, Abrams EJ. Optimizing Research to Speed Up Availability of Pediatric Antiretroviral Drugs and Formulations. Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Jun 01; 64(11):1597-1603.

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LaMattina KC, Goldstein DA. Adalimumab for the treatment of uveitis. Expert Rev Clin Immunol. 2017 Mar; 13(3):181-188.

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Costa R, Carneiro BA, Agulnik M, Rademaker AW, Pai SG, Villaflor VM, Cristofanilli M, Sosman JA, Giles FJ. Toxicity profile of approved anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibodies in solid tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Oncotarget. 2017 Jan 31; 8(5):8910-8920.

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Waldman SA, Terzic A. Managing Innovation to Maximize Value Along the Discovery-Translation-Application Continuum. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2017 Jan; 101(1):8-12.

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