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Oct 2015
12m 44s

Medical science needs you! Human clinica...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Clinical trials for vaccines: how they work and what's involved for volunteers. Testing novel vaccines in humans is the first step on a long route to licensure. Clinical trials are long, expensive but essential procedures designed to confirm both a vaccines safety but also its effectiveness. Here we discuss clinical trial design and the important role of cli ... Show More
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