How a medicine is made?
We are all used to having the different treatments we need at the pharmacy. But what is behind them? Before reaching our hands, medicines require a complex development, manufacturing, and packaging process, which implies an even greater level of difficulty in the case, for example, of certain highly specialized medicines such as those used in areas of oncology and transplants. What are highly specialized drugs? In addition to the generic drugs that we can all have on hand in our usual medicine cabinets, such as ibuprofen or paracetamol, there are also highly specialized generic drugs, which are those intended for areas such as oncology, transplants, or endocrinology. The large-scale manufacture of this type of drug has a great social relevance since it makes treatments accessible to the population that, otherwise, would have a very high cost for the citizen. Its pharmaceutical and clinical development requires advanced technologies that allow controlling all the param...