Get over ‘guinea pig’ stigma, embrace trials


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WE have come a long way with our national healthcare infrastructure since independence in 1957.

We reached another milestone at the start of this year when Malaysia became the seventh country included by a large multinational pharmaceutical company for a first in human (FIH) clinical trial, and the first within the Asia Pacific region, of a new, yet to be named drug being developed for use in rheumatology (The Star, Jan 4; online at bit.ly/3RN2zVZ).

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