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 have volunteered for the Phase Two vaccine trial conducted at Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s P.H Feng Research Centre.
In this episode, ST senior health correspondent Joyce Teo speaks with Adjunct Associate Prof Tan Cher Heng, who runs the centre. Prof Tan is the assistant chairman of the Medical Board (Clinical Research & Innovation) at Tan Tock Seng Hospital as well as its director of clinical trials.
She asks Prof Tan to share as much as he can on the Phase Two trial, the trials on new treatments being done here, and the key things to consider for someone who’s keen on joining a trial.
Produced by: Joyce Teo (joyceteo@sph.com.sg), Penelope Lee, Aleemah Basirah and Ernest Luis
Edited by: Penelope Lee and Aleemah Basirah
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