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Any of YOU ever participate in clinical trials for a drug? If so what stage trial, how long did it last and what were you testing?

Decades ago at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California I participated in a clinical trial that tested the efficacy of CALCITONIN. A drug to help stave off osteopororis.

I was in STAGE TWO of the trials and that stage lasted TWO YEARS.

Every drug is different. Some take longer to evaluate and verify and others are less complex.

BUT many times bad stuff happens and they stop the trials completely and have to start ALL OVER AGAIN. Which means there are NO GUARANTEES that a SAFE drug will be available in one year or 1-1/2 years. Now maybe they will get VERY LUCKY and everything will test out safe the first time. Maybe lucky. NOT CERTAIN LUCKY.

Don't hold your breath. But if it happens to get through faster and is SAFE then we thank our lucky stars. Right?

Posted - March 29, 2020
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  • 3719
    Not a drug but I was in a blind trial for a new type of dressing for one of my knee operations. As it happened I was given the ordinary type, against which the new one would be compared.
      April 3, 2020 7:16 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Did you ever learn the outcome Durdle? Thank you for your rep;u! :)
      April 8, 2020 8:56 AM MDT
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  • 3719
    I didn't, no, but perhaps the development and trials are it's still under way.

    At the moment of course, the hospitals and National Health Service have other things on their mind... Not only treating Corvid-19 sufferers, but also those with serious other illnesses like cancer when the pandemic has so taken over. They are setting aside certain hospitals as centres for such cases; and a hotel in my town has offered itself as a temporary convalescent hospital for non-Corvid patients. (Well, it won't be taking ordinary bookings for a long while yet.) 
      April 8, 2020 3:41 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    How are you doing Durdle? That elephant is in every room of every home in the entire world. SIGH. Thank you for your reply! :) I am not a fan of nitpickers. In fact I cannot tolerate them. You are not one but there are some on the mug. While thousands of people are dying nitpickers are on the job correcting grammar spelling syntax. An ABOMINATION. I asked a question about them. Just thought I'd give you a heads' up. Do you adore nitpickers?
      April 9, 2020 4:00 AM MDT
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  • 3719
    Some elephant... Our lock-down is not likely to end in the near future, though the special law that had to be created for it says it has to be reviewed every  three weeks. So we're about to start the next 3-week one. At least there are some pleasant routes I can walk, within a mile or of home, and I may walk into town (2 miles away) one day in the coming week.

    Nit-pickers... Well, I don't go as far as "abomination" but I can be irritated by wilfully clumsy language or mis-use of words by people who genuinely should know better. I try to tolerate bad spelling or strange grammar on a forum like this. Here, you never know if the writer has had to learn English, or might be dyslexic or something. Apart from anything else, we all make typing mistakes at times, and pouncing on minor mistakes that do not materially affect the sense of the message, is really rather bad manners. Someone ticked me off on here only recently for a hyphen where hyphens have no business being... according to him.

    Some accidental typos can even be amusing, such as a 'For Sale' ad I once saw, for a four-berth motor-caravan... Only, it was spelt four-birth! Maybe the sellers had had enough too-eventful, touring holidays!
      April 11, 2020 4:37 PM MDT
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