Thursday 29 September 2011

Types Of Clinical Trials

Clinical trial is performed by the group of researches to evaluate new medicine, drugs, medical equipment and the treatment to see the betterment in one’s health. The objective is to ensure the safety and the betterment of the treatment over the standard one.

Clinical trials are differentiated into categories based on the way how they are carried out
  • Treatment trials are use to examine the new combination of the drugs or the therapies or surgeries to treat the specific diseases. They are intended to bring the improvement in human health care.
  •  Supportive care trials are carried over to improve the comfort levels and quality of the life in the people suffering from chronic diseases.
  •  Prevention trials are carried over to promote a drug which prevents the diseases from affecting the body before occurring or preventing the diseases from reoccurring.
  •  Screening trials aims at bringing out a new method to detect the diseases in the people before they experience symptoms
  •  Diagnostic trials are conducted to find the better way of diagnosing particular diseases

Inefficient Funding Challenging The Current Trends In The Clinical Trial


Clinical trial is the link between advances in the medical technology and improved health care. The objective of the clinical trial is to provide a full understanding of the human diseases and come out with right solution to promote good health.  In spite of wide opportunities being dumped into the clinical trial industry, it is challenged by finical impact. Imperfect public understanding, lack of co-ordination, data insufficiency, and workforce issues are the few challenging hits faced by the medical trial today.


These challenges are impacting the time lag of the drug trials which is in turn affecting the financial concerns. Proper management of these research studies is recommended to get the desired output restricting to budgetary limits. Lack of required effort is bumping major portion of investment in the pharmacy industry into the clinical trial research and paralyzing the pharmacy industry. A smart of dealing the challenge would negotiating the budgetary terms, time period, before the commencement of the trials so, that the pharmacy industries will be skipped from facing the trouble.
 

Understand The Informed Consent Before You Take Part In The Clinical Trial

Clinical trials are the tests conducted on the human beings to make a study the enhancement of the new drug or the treatment that has incubated from the Clinical trial procedures. Volunteers that participate in the Clinical trial are asked to sign an informed consent before they participate in the medical trial. What is this informed consent all about? Why is it required? These are questions that sit in the brain of the volunteer making him sacred before he enters the process.

“The informed consent provides a summary of the clinical trial (including its purpose, the treatment procedures and schedule, potential risks and benefits, alternatives to participation, etc.) and explains your rights as a participant”. 
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Once you and your researcher take the decision to conduct the clinical trial and you fit in all the eligible category like age disease, stage of the diseases. You will be asked to sign an informed which notifies your consent to participate in the clinical trial that is being conducted.

Wednesday 28 September 2011

What Happens After The Medical Trial?

What happens after the clinical trial? This adds curiosity to every participant of the clinical trial.  It is also the wish of every outsider to see the successful outcome because it helps in fighting the diseases in a better way. You will know about the three phases of the clinical trial if you are a volunteer in the study. What happens next?  Once the research crosses the three phases of the study, the data is collected to analyze the safety and side effects of the medication, if the results found to be medically important; they are submitted to the journals for the peer-review.

The data will be then submitted for the approval of Food and Drug Administration (FDA). If the drug obtains the approval from FDA, then the pharmaceutical companies will continue to conduct the studies to compare new drug in terms of its safety, effectiveness, and cost with the standard drug in the market.

Medical Trial-A Transparent Picture

Before you peep into the complete picture of medical trial, you have to first know the underlying aspect of the medical trial. It is generally conducted to come up with new drug or the medical treatment to fight against the existing diseases in a better way. The study is conducted to test the safety of the new drug in treating the diseases. The clinical trial has to cross many juncture and get the approvals from the regulatory authorities to ensure that the final output enters the consumer market.

The initial stage of the research begins with the extensive lab research which includes years of study on animals and human cells. The report will be submitted for FDA approval seeking the acceptance for human testing once it proves to be successful in the first stage.  After the approval human testing will initiated and conducted in four different stages. Reports should get the approval of FDA at each and every stage to proceed to the next. 


Tuesday 27 September 2011

Clinical Trial a Choice For Your Treatment

The intensified growth of the new diseases in the society has made the medical costs very expensive and the treatment has become the moon in the sky for the common man. Clinical trials that are conducted with objective of inventing either new medicine or the treatment would be stand alone choice for the poor volunteers to treat their diseases free of charge enjoy many benefits in addition.

None of us would know how to get out of the situation if affected by the non treatable diseases. The only hope to get out of the dreadful situation is undergoing a clinical trial which is conducted to find out the solution to the dreadful problem. By taking part in the clinical trial you are pushing your life to safer place from the dangerous edge. As the drugs in the clinical trials are tested on the tissues and animals before they reach humans, you are on the safe edge. The medicines in the medical trial are ought to get approval from the ethical committee before they are experimented on the humans. The results of the research are continuously monitored by the experts and you will be protected by all the means. More over you will be insured against all the risks that are faced in the medical trial.

Monday 26 September 2011

Urge To Reform Clinical Trial Procedures

Clinical researches are conduced to enhance the safety of the patients and not spoil them further "urges the medical organizations throughout the world. Treatments for the phase Iv clinical trials are conducted on the patients who reach the hospital to undergo the treatment, recent facts reveal. The visitors of the hospital are left untold about the experiment before they experience it. 

The worst part of it is they are told “no issues” in order to experiment the results of the medication. Alternative treatment is given to in the next visit if the medication found non effective to treat the diseases. It has turned out into the global game by the corporation to cut down the clinical trial costs. Is this the way to do it? Not all, do not play with the safety of the patients who are on visit to the hospital, instead stream line your process of clinical research, have your cost budgeted before hand to cut down the effects of clinical research costs.

Improve Diversified Voulnteer Participation In The Clinical Trials

Health always depends on the climatic conditions surrounding the country. Do you agree? Why most the medications that come out of the clinical trial are not able to treat the humans globally. The only reason is in appropriate perception of the people in the clinical trials. Lack of knowledge about the benefits offered by the medical trials is keeping the minority section far from attending the clinical trials. 

The end results are making the medication in active when treated on the non participated section the minority people. The minorities are more likely to develop cancer and die from it than the general public in the U.S, the recent report  says, effort should be made to encourage the enrollment of these minorities in the clinical trials educating them about the benefit of their participation in the medical trials  increasing their good health. Their enrollment in the clinical trials would encourage the tailored therapies to see the betterment in their health conditions

Clinical Trial Why is It Important

There is a renowned saying “Health is wealth ", now let me turn it like this health is more than wealth. We can earn money once it is lost but, what about health? It will be regained only when immune system is assisted with the right medicine prescribed by the doctor. Thanks to the medical world which has equipped us number medicines to fight against the many diseases.   Our forefathers experienced death due to normal fever. It is happening no more. Why? It is gift of the medicines emerged through clinical trial. We are able push the diseases away with the effective medicine. The invention of this effective medicine was the result efforts of the investigators through clinical trials. These clinical trials formed an effective platform for the medical world to come with the new medicines that can keep the everyday increasing diseases under control. I just say that these clinical trials are a boon given by the researchers to increase the life span of man.

Friday 23 September 2011

Making Your Clinical Trial Cost Affordable


Life is precious for anybody. Medical trails test one life to protect the others. Are they really safe?  This is the common question that bombards the brain of the common man outside the medical world. The answer is yes; Let me give you the answers for the question how? 

Medical trails are said to be safe because the light of the world only after crossing the two phases of the medical trails and more over they need cross stringent elaborated medical procedures and get the approval from the an ethics committee. The running trails will be monitored by the data monitoring committee; the patient will be insured by the sponsor to avoid any unexpected risks. All the risks and benefits will be an open book to the person who takes part in the medical trail. Medical experts will give you a 24X7 assistance to keep your health intact.