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The Importance of Research



This article is to help the user understand what role research play and how the PNA is involved in it.

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Clinical trials

A clinical trial is an organized study conducted in order to answer specific questions abouta new treatment or a new way of using a known treatment. Each study tries to increase medical knowledge and to find new and better ways to help patients. Besides studying new drugs, clinical trials study new combinations of drugs already used, new ways of giving treatment, and how changes in lifestyle can help patients. Other clinical trials compare the best known standard therapy with a newer therapy to see if one produces more cures and causes fewer side effects than the other.





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