Enhancing the stewardship and scientific rigor of clinical trials, and an update on NIDCD’s May advisory council meeting
Clinical trials are at the heart of all advances in medical care. They involve prospectively assigning human participants to one or more interventions to evaluate the impact on health-related biomedical or behavioral outcomes. Findings from NIDCD clinical trials help to advance new approaches to preventing, diagnosing, and treating disorders of hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language that affect millions of people in the United States.