© October 2015
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Volunteering for clinical research trials can be a rewarding experience, not least financially—or so the literature would have us believe. To offer oneself as a guinea pig for the future benefit of others is undoubtedly a selfless act, but under what safeguards are these studies conducted? What sort of people volunteer for them? And what would they say to anyone interested in getting involved? An occasional test subject, I have put clinical research under the microscope…