S1E57: All you need to know about Covid-19 clinical trials: Health Check Ep 57

The Straits Times Podcasts · Apr 7, 2021 · 18m

Health Check Ep 57: All you need to know about Covid-19 clinical trials

18:31 mins

Synopsis: This is a fortnightly podcast series on Wednesdays by The Straits Times that aims to help you make sense of health matters that affect you.

Clinical trials are research studies that are usually conducted with healthy volunteers to learn about a potential treatment or vaccine and its effect on humans. There are various trials conducted here, including one for a potential Covid-19 vaccine that’s being developed by Arcturus Therapeutics in the US and the Duke-NUS medical school in Singapore.

Some people…