What is Mathematics and medicine?
[[File:201707 medicine mix.svg|thumb|Medicine regulation uses mathematics and statistics]] '''Mathematics and medicine''' are closely connected, and doctors use mathematics to make predictions, interpret results or understanding the effectiveness of a [[surgery]], [[drug]] or [[therapy]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Mathematics and medicine: Sabina Alistar at TEDxBucharest|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHT4TlOyJWA|language=en|access-date=2022-05-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zKnTBwAAQBAJ&dq=Mathematics+and+medicine&pg=PR7|title=Mathematics in Medicine and the Life Sciences|last1=Hoppensteadt|first1=Frank C.|last2=Peskin|first2=Charles S.|date=2013-03-09|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4757-4131-5|language=en}}</ref> == Approval of drugs == The most common application of mathematics in medicine and [[pharmacology]] is probability and statistics where, for example, the effectiveness of new drugs or medical procedures is validated by statistical analysis before they are approved, for example, in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Zayed|first=Ahmed I.|date=2019-05-01|title=A new perspective on the role of mathematics in medicine|journal=Journal of Advanced Research|series=Special Issue on Celebrating JAR-1st IF|language=en|volume=17|pages=49–54|doi=10.1016/j.jare.2019.01.016|pmid=31193335 |pmc=6526197 |issn=2090-1232}}</ref> == References == <references /> {{Med-stub}} [[Category:Applied mathematics]] [[Category:Medicine]]