Clinical Trials for Medical Professionals

Clinical trials play an important role in discovering how anemia affects patients within a variety of disease states and are essential to determining optimum treatment methods to reduce patients’ symptoms. As part of that process, we encourage all healthcare professionals who treat patients with anemia to learn about and be aware of current clinical research.

One valuable resource to help you stay abreast of current clinical trials and medical research involving anemia is the government-operated clearinghouse www.clinicaltrials.gov. This website offers up-to-date information on locating federally and privately supported clinical trials. To help you search for anemia-related trials NAAC has provided several pre-set links to the right.

NAAC has information about clinical trials for your patients interested in learning about or participating in a clinical trial. This information is a good starting point if you will be speaking to them about clinical trials or if they have expressed interest in searching for clinical trials related to anemia.

Also consider directing your patients to NAAC’s interactive tutorial on Blood and Bone Marrow Basics. This interactive patient education tutorial gives an overview of the components of blood, how blood is made, and discusses several blood and bone marrow tests.

Last Updated: August 12, 2009