A clinical trial is a controlled study involving people, designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of new drugs or devices or of behavioral interventions. This enables our physicians to contribute to medical research without comprimising their normal practice. Although we do not require our physicians to participate in medical research, many of our physicians at Medical services enjoy participating in clinical trials.
Clinical trials help approve a new drug or treatment for the medical community.
We have had very positive response to our past clinical trial participants and the medical community. Clinical trials provide treatment, radiology tests and laboratory tests at no cost to the volunteer patient. This allows many patients treatment they could not otherwise afford. Patients also receive first hand information on new treatments, close medical monitoring and patient care. All studies done in our research program are carefully reviewed by a group of physicians for safety.