Did you know? Inflammatory bowel disease, which includes ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), affects about 5 million people worldwide. While there are multiple treatments available, for many people these treatments only partially work, do not work, or stop working. As a result, there is a real need to develop more treatment options.

A Clinical trial is the safety structure that allows volunteer patients to try a newly developed medication as safely as possible. All of the safety measures taken to protect patients in a clinical trial, also yield most of the data needed to demonstrate safety and effectiveness! Clinical trials are always voluntary and are offered at no cost to patients who qualify for testing.

Many reasons people volunteer for a study are:

• They are seeking new ways to treat their disease that are more effective or better tolerated.

• They want to access the cutting edge medical treatments for their condition.

• They want to learn more about their condition and get specialized care related to the study.

• They are altruistic and find purpose in using their illness to help others!

Study Volunteers are Everyday Heroes! For more information Contact Us.