Black triangle drugs - medical type people

[Ste]

Few questions/concerns about black triangle drugs, wondering if any one can help with some questions about them.

"Black triangle products are new drugs and vaccines which are being intensively monitored in order to confirm the risk/benefit profile of the product"

Does anyone know about how long a drug usually stays as being black triangle?

Aren't the drugs risky because not much is known about side effects?

Black triangle drugs sound like they're really just a clinical trial using the public, which sounds like it'd be dodgy/risky.

[Tonka]

I googled and found the following:

[Ste]

It's been black triangle since January 2005.

[Tonka]

https://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr344/Tonkatoo_2008/th_guinea-pig1.jpg



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[Major_Grooves]

When drugs are being developed they go through different phases of development with increasing number of patients in each. These are broadly Phase 1, 2, and 3. It is only in Phase 3 that they really start to pick up side-effects or adverse events, but even then the trial might only be a few hundred or thousand people, so very rare events might not be noticed.

So many new drugs, particularly those with new active ingredients, will have "Phase 4" observations, which basically means the drug has passed all the safety trials, just like any other drug, but the pharma company must keep a close eye on patients taking the drug so that any rare adverse events can be identified. It makes a big difference to be able to observe events once they go from a few thousand people taking them in very controlled circumstances, to tens or hundreds of thousands of people taking them in "the wild".

I wouldn't be concerned, just make sure you report any adverse events/side effects to your doctor.

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