Understanding Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are important to ensure that people receive safe and effective treatments for their health conditions, from heart disease to headaches. They provide the means to develop new treatments that are more effective, safer than treatments already on the market or deliver the therapy via a different mechanism of action; they enable researchers to discover new therapeutic uses for currently available medications; and, they make it possible to develop innovative treatments for conditions that currently have no treatment.

If you have been a participant in a clinical trial before or you have just been invited to participate, the questions below provide some information about clinical trials and what is involved if you agree to participate in a clinical trial.

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