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Streamlining Clinical Trials to Make Them Work for Everyone: A Conversation with Dr. Heidi Gardner

Streamlining Clinical Trials to Make Them Work for Everyone: A Conversation with Dr. Heidi Gardner

As the world is still combating the COVID-19 pandemic through mass inoculations and finding the definitive treatment, studying medicine efficacy and safety in the human biological system has never been more important. Before any treatment is approved, clinical trials are done to ensure that the new intervention works for every member of society. This, however, is not often the case as there are still many external obstacles to equitable clinical trials.