8 Reasons You Should Take Part In A Clinical Trial

For those of us who are lucky enough to be in good health, we tend to take it for granted until the day we wake up sick. We then promise ourselves we'll actively appreciate being well again. If you're lucky enough to never wake up sick, there's no doubt that you'll experience someone close to you being given difficult news about their health. I can assure you that this will bring you swiftly back down to Earth.

As a healthy volunteer, clinical trials can give you the opportunity to help others. Healthy volunteers are often the group of people researchers find most difficult to bring in to their trials, mostly because when we're healthy the problem of poor health seems like a distant problem that we'll deal with if and when it happens to us. New drugs are tested in healthy people before people suffering from the target disease, this allows researchers to double check that the drug is safe. Without healthy volunteers trials would not be able to run. 

So when someone close to you is unfortunate enough to receive an unwelcome diagnosis, don't spend your time being angry at the world and frustrated because life just doesn't seem fair; think about signing up to take part in a trial.