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Importance of Healthy Participants
Click on a link below to learn more about why healthy volunteers are vital for clinical trials and how you can participate:
Pros and Cons of Being a Healthy Participant
Click on a link below to learn more about how you may benefit as a healthy participant:
- NIH: Program for Healthy Volunteers
- Personal stories:
- The Life of a Professional Guinea Pig– The Atlantic
- NIH: Melanie’s general experience as a healthy participant
- NIH: Lisa’s story as a healthy participant in a study about menopause
At Chicago Public Library
Click on a link below to see resources at Chicago Public Library:
- Book: Clinical Trials—What Patients and Volunteers Need to Know
- Book: Human Trials—Scientists, Investors, and Patients in the Quest for a Cure
- Resource List: Health & Medicine Online Resources
Find a clinical trial
Find a trial at Northwestern University here
Call a clinical trials recruitment nurse at Northwestern: (312)-695-1102
Find trials throughout Chicago and the US here
From the Chicago Department of Public Health
Connect to services and programs around Chicago
CDPH’s Healthy Chicago 2.0 initiative
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