This year, in celebration of International Clinical Trials Day
on 20 May, BioMed Central has put together a timeline of the stages of
conducting a clinical trial. We’ll reveal more stages throughout the
week, in the lead up to the day itself. We’ve invited some of the greats
in the field to comment on why the stage is important to a trial, what
should be considered and why it should be considered at that point in
the trial timeline.
It all began with James Lind
in the 1740s, and his observation that British fleet scurvy caused more
deaths than in French and Spanish fleets combined. He hypothesized that
the citrus fruit on board the latter were minimizing their risk so on
May 20, 1747, took 12 patients on board the British Salisbury and tested
whether these fruit would alleviate their scurvy symptoms.
This gave rise to one of the first ever recorded clinical trials and
why we celebrate International Clinical Trials Day globally on May 20.
Since Lind’s pioneering work 269 years ago, medical research has come a long way.
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