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Article: Taking a Chance With a Clinical Trial.
- Article from:
- Kiplinger's Retirement Report
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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IF YOU'RE diagnosed with a serious illness, you may want to consider a course of treatment that your doctor is not likely to offer: a clinical trial. The thousands of clinical trials ongoing at any one time can provide patients with access to potentially life-saving treatments that are not available with standard care. Often conducted by the nation's top experts, these research studies help determine whether drugs, medical devices, new therapies and vaccines, which seem promising in the laboratory, are safe and effective for humans.
Ron Windle decided to give it a go. In 2003, Windle, who lives in Brookeville, Md., entered a clinical trial at Johns Hopkins Kimmel ...
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