The History of Drug Discovery, Future Considerations

Abstract

Author(s): Antonio Steardo*

For centuries humankind has been receiving methods to cure illnesses. During its development, medicine discovered several therapeutic tools. In ancient times herbal medicine started to find out what modern technologies could do, giving the base to it. For centuries, scientific development as well as seren-dipities pharmacognosy, pharmacology was brought to modern medicine. The passages got a complex asset of modern therapeutic tools passed not only by numerous fruitful discoveries but also by nefarious errors that severely hit human beings. History taught us what has been given us by living its consideration like a reprimand. Even if pharmacovigilance has now a robust scheme that can supply any articulated demand, will it be able to process now a pharmacological-biotechnological tool in the appropriate way? Is it ethical to push biotechnology forward and create a new chimaera?