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CLINICAL RESEARCH Title: "Healthy volunteers participating in clinical trials are sufficiently well informed about the risks prior to giving consent and the financial reimbursement is appropriate." Clinical trials have a variety of definitions but are recognised as being a research study designed to test the safety and effectiveness of drugs, devices, treatments, or preventative measures in humans.1 Carefully conducted clinical trials are seen as the fastest and safest way to find treatments that work in people and ways to improve health. In the search to understand, prevent and treat disease, clinical trials involving healthy volunteers and patients are found to play a vital role.2 Healthy volunteers in a clinical trial are classified as being males and between the ages of 18 to 45 years old.1There are four phases in clinical trials and each one varies in size, character and focus. Phase I is the first phase and it primarily determines how...

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