Volunteers for drug trials hard to find

• Date: November 29, 2009
• Source: External

Availability of volunteers for clinical trials has always been a challenge. Uncertainity of the outcome has always been a deterant. More so in recent times researchers have been focussing on treatment for rare diseases. So this reduces the target population to a niche. So much of time is being invested in developing these drugs. But lack of volunteers is delaying the process of mass manufacture. Communicating the efficacy of such trials is also another challenge that these researchers face.