Clinical Trials
What is a clinical trial?
Clinical trials are research studies that are performed in human subjects. Clinical trials can evaluate potential new treatments but may also be performed to look at ways of preventing diseases, diagnosing diseases and/or controlling symptoms. Clinical studies are often used to evaluate new drugs or medical devices to find out if the new experimental drug or device is effective, is safe, has side effects, or how it works in comparison to currently used treatments.
Depending on the type of product and the stage of development, investigators initially enroll healthy volunteers and/or patients with specific medical conditions into small studies, followed by larger scale studies that often compare the new treatment with a placebo or, in some cases, a currently prescribed treatment. Clinical trials can vary in size from a single study center in one country to multiple centers in many different countries. People participate in clinical trials for many different reasons. Some people participate because they want to try a new treatment, often because they have not responded to, or are having trouble tolerating, standard treatments. Other people participate in trials because the want to contribute to medical research. Not everyone who asks to join a clinical trial will be accepted. For example, some people will not meet the requirements of the study’s plan (protocol).
For a listing of active and complete NeurogesX clinical trials, please visit clinicaltrials.gov
Please click on the following link(s) for information on studies that are currently recruiting subjects.