New and powerful drugs are now available for the management
excessive fluid on the lungs relieved. This means that a patient with heart
control of heart failure. The swelling of the limbs can be cured and also
failure can walk and breathe again.
Even when the drugs which are used for these purposes are developed
The subsequent testing and evaluation, which is just as essential to their
by industry, the discovery of a drug is merely the beginning of the process.
hospitals. A painstaking investigation of their dosage and method of use,
value as their original discovery, is the responsibility of research workers in
side-effects, requires great patience and skill if the correct treatment is to be
their value in combination and the methods of protection against possible
worked out and accidents are to be avoided.