Email this pageHelping Others
One of the most important things to know about clinical research is how it helps other people.
When our clinical researchers complete a study, they make their results known to other doctors and researchers around the world. Those results may help doctors to provide better treatments to their patients, while helping researchers to develop new ideas for further study.
Clinical research is the way we move all of medicine forward, creating better medications, treatments, diagnostic procedures, preventive measures and ways to live healthier—for people in our community and around the globe.
Helping the world.
It’s not to hard to see how your involvement in clinical research could help the world.
Consider one case among many:
Dr. Arthur Moss, a researcher at URMC, met a patient with a puzzling heart defect. He was able to identify the cause of her problem: a rare irregularity in her heart’s electrical pattern, later called Long QT Syndrome.
Dr. Moss, along with Dr. Wojciech Zareba and Dr. James Daubert, led a landmark clinical study. With the help of many research participants, they were able to show that implantable electronic defibrillators were highly effective at preventing sudden cardiac death in people with Long QT Syndrome.
Since then, thousands of people around the world with Long QT Syndrome have received implantable defibrillators. And countless lives have been saved.
Clinical research may very well help you. But it will no doubt help many others, perhaps hundreds or thousands throughout the world.
