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Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are research studies that test how well new medical approaches work in people. Each study answers scientific questions and tries to find better ways to prevent, screen for, diagnose, or treat a disease. Clinical trials may also compare a new treatment to a treatment that is already available.

Every clinical trial has a protocol, or action plan, for conducting the trial. The plan describes what will be done in the study, how it will be conducted, and why each part of the study is necessary. Each study has its own rules about who can take part. Some studies need volunteers with a certain disease. Some need healthy people. Others want just men or just women.

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  1. Clinical Trials (National Library of Medicine)  
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  2. How Clinical Trials Work Video From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)  
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  3. If you have cancer, a clinical trial may be an option for you. A clinical trial is a study using people who agree to participate in new tests ...
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  7. Should Your Child Participate in a Clinical Trial? (Food and Drug Administration)  
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  8. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Cancer Clinical Trials From the National Institutes of Health (Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine)  
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  9. Clinical Trial Diversity (Food and Drug Administration)  
    ... clinical research. Ensuring people from diverse backgrounds join clinical trials is key to advancing health equity.
  10. Clinical Trial Process for Sickle Cell Disease Gene Therapy From the National Institutes of Health (National Human Genome Research Institute)  
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