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Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility Renewals

Medicaid and CHIP eligibility renewals are required this year. Learn more about Medicaid and CHIP eligibility requirements.

Clinical Trials

Randomized Trials

Randomization is like flipping a coin or pulling a number from a hat.

Information on Randomized Trials

In some research trials, participants are randomly assigned to a treatment plan. Randomization is like flipping a coin or pulling a number from a hat. You have an equal chance of being assigned to any of the treatment options being tested (or to receive a placebo, or sugar pill, instead of the drug being researched). Because medical research must be kept very scientific, you cannot pick which protocol you want to be assigned to in a randomized trial.

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Types of Drug Clinical Trials

On average, it takes 15 years before a drug tested in the laboratory can be tested on humans.

Pioneering Clinical Immersion for Biomedical Engineers Inspires ‘Out-of-the-Box’ Thinking

Pioneering Clinical Immersion for Biomedical Engineers Inspires ‘Out-of-the-Box’ Thinking

Graham Cancer Center and University of Delaware partnership gives tomorrow's engineers insight into health care environment