From the Plague to the Clinical Trials

Have you ever thought that you or a beloved one might need a medicine from the future?

Probably you haven’t thought of it much. None of us had, but yet we or our close relatives sometimes end up having some kind of a problem that might take away our life the way we know it, the way we love it.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the average person in the world someday in time will be diagnosed with diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer or cancer. These are the most proliferated conditions of our modern world. And yes — it sounds tragic, but not hopeless. We need to find a way to, if not prevent it, get through it.

Shall we live with this fact or we shall do something about it?

We could fight, the way we always fought . A few hundred years back in history there were 75 to 200 million people who died of the “black death” — the plague. It was so severe and unstoppable that it reduced the population of Europe by almost 60%. The main reason — people weren’t prepared with the knowledge and the medicine needed to fight back efficiently.

But only remember the brave doctors with the special (I might even say scary) plague masks and hats covering their faces? These were the guys who looked for a way to help patients and most of all — to prevent people. They were the ones looking for symptoms and methods to find “the cure” and stop the catastrophe. I’m not saying they stopped the plague, but they were the ones experimenting and confirming how important hygiene is.

However, as we know Medicine is Science, it requires experimentations and observations in order to find the truth and use it to discover even broader areas of our being, so that we can feel better, live longer and be healthier.

This is where clinical trials come in place nowadays.

I see the Clinical trials researchers as the doctors with the plague masks of the today’s world. Yes, it isn’t so risky now, but it takes the same brave nature and sharp mind to chase the cure.

I believe the only way we can prove that something is working well on our bodies and psyches is to test it. Every single new discovery goes through series of research studies so that it can be proven to be more “good” than “bad”. Without the knowledge and the innovations we get out of ‘testing” we could be at the same stage where we were in 1346–53 when the plague was peaking in Europe.

Research matters. It is our today and our tomorrow and most of all the future and well-being of our children. Innovation might be risky, but life is worth taking risks for it.

Having said all this, I agree with all of you claiming that we need to measure the risk. We are lucky that today we have so much data, so we can use it to weigh those risks.

This is what I dedicated myself to.

I would love to share with you a lot about clinical trials, drugs in development, medical devices and most of all — how we can trust the innovations and measure the risk we take.

I believe a great tool for that will be the platform we are building now — FindMeCure. It analyses clinical research data and allows you to search, compare and choose clinical trials best on your personal criteria.

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