A world without clinical research would real headache
May 2, 2018 by The Corvallis Clinic
By Rylee Salutregui Clinical Research Center
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Imagine waking up with an excruciating headache. You stumble into the bathroom, open the medicine cabinet, look in, and find … nothing. It’ s empty. You then wander around and decide that the store should have something to take for the pain. So, you drive to it and walk into the pharmacy, only to see bare shelves. Now what? Where’ s all of the medicine? What are you going to do about that throbbing pain in your head?
That is what life would be like without clinical research
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We all know someone who takes medication for a disease. But without clinical research there would be no medications
, just untested supplements that may or may not actually help treat and prevent disease.
Every medicine thatt is out on the market was once in a clinical trial. But before that medicinee could get to the pharmacy or your medicine cabinet, people like you and I volunteered to participate in a clinical study so it could get there.
Each person is unique and different; therefore, not one medicine will work as effectively on every person with that disease. This is why it is important for everyone to educate themselves and consider participating in a clinical research study
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Where it all began Let me take you back, to the open seas of the mid-18 th century, where many believe clinical research all started. Scurvy, the disease caused by severe vitamin C deficiency, was killing more British sailors during this time than the Spanish and French navies. In May 1747, Dr. James Lind, the surgeon aboard the HMS Salisbury, decided to run a 12-person clinical trial on scurvy.