Clinical trials are research studies where people participate in order to help determine if a medicine, surgery, or type of therapy works.  Before they are approved by the FDA, new drugs are studied in humans to see if they are effective.  By the time they are studied in humans, they have already been studied in animals. When they are studied in humans, researchers decide  if a new treatment, like a new drug or diet or medical device (for example, a pacemaker) is safe and effective in people. 

Learn more about clinical trials and studies here:

• nia.nih.gov/health/what-are-clinical-trials-and-studies
• clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/about-studies/learn
• who.int/health-topics/clinical-trials

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