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World Service,19 Feb 1999,23 mins

Drug trials

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Clinical trials to determine whether or not a drug is safe, and whether it will work or not. From Africa to London, the programme looks at the importance of drug trials and how the process, which can be controversial, works. Many drugs in use today might not have been licensed had they been developed today.

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