There are over 70 000 ongoing clinical trials taking place in various countries worldwide.
These trials are not necessarily related to #drugs or #medications. You might be surprised but there are many studies using behavioral approaches or exercises to determine how they affect a certain conditions or# health status (e.g trials measuring the impact of #yoga as complementary therapy on patients undergoing radical prostatectomy, or trials related to ensuring healthy marriage through educational programs). As to the so-called interventional clinical trials (a type of clinical studies in which participants are assigned to groups that receive one or more intervention/treatment), they usually aim at proving that the drug is more effective than the standard of care or have fewer side effects that the existing therapies on the market. Being tested on animals, healthy volunteers and then patients with a certain condition, a compound is potentially turned into a promising medicine that could change or even save one’s life.
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