Drugs and Medicines Quiz
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1. Why can't antibiotics be used to treat the common cold?
- A. The cold is caused by a virus, which antibiotics cannot kill
- B. Antibiotics are too weak to treat any disease
- C. The cold has no known cause
- D. Antibiotics only work on plants
2. Which drug was originally extracted from the foxglove plant?
- A. Penicillin
- B. Aspirin
- C. Digitalis
- D. Insulin
3. What is the purpose of a double-blind trial?
- A. To speed up the testing process
- B. To reduce bias by ensuring neither patient nor doctor knows who received the real drug
- C. To allow patients to choose their own treatment
- D. To test the drug only on animals
4. A new drug passes preclinical testing on cells and animals. What is the correct next step?
- A. Sell it directly to the public
- B. Begin clinical trials on healthy human volunteers using low doses
- C. Skip to patient trials with high doses immediately
- D. Publish results without further testing
5. Monoclonal antibody cancer treatments were expected to have few side effects because they target specific cells, but in practice they have caused more side effects than predicted. What does this suggest about evaluating new medical technologies?
- A. Targeted treatments always work exactly as predicted
- B. Even highly specific treatments require thorough testing, since real-world effects can differ from expectations
- C. Monoclonal antibodies should never be used in medicine
- D. Side effects only occur with untargeted drugs like antibiotics