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Clinical Trials

Clinical trials show the benefits and risks of healthcare interventions – such as medicines, surgery or radiotherapy, by comparing them with the standard treatments currently in use or with a dummy drug or ‘placebo’. In this section you can learn more about our clinical trials and how to take part in them, profiles of leading scientists who work on clinical trials and important MRC trials that have helped changed the world.

 Get involved
  Topics: What are clinical trials?
  The MRC and clinical trials , 
 Taking part in a trial

 Trial people
 Scientist profiles: Dr Philip Bath ,
 Richard Stephens  - Clinical Trials Scientist, 
 Robert MacLaren and Robin Ali ,
 Sophie Barthel

 Trials that have changed the world
  Topics: Antithrombotics , Cystic fibrosis ,
 Folic acid , HIV & behaviour ,
 Iron supplementation ,
 Leukaemia , Smoking , Statins ,
 Tuberculosis , Therapeutic antibodies