Primary Education Topic:
Healthcare & Aging
Other Education Topics:
Health & Wellness
Various factors lead to clinical trial under-enrollment. Many trials arbitrarily include an age limit—shutting out older adults who are disproportionately affected by chronic diseases and most likely to need and use the new treatments.
By Lindsay Clarke
Stories about cutting-edge discoveries in biomedical research with the potential to change and save lives crop up almost daily in the news. And the public expects that such breakthrough treatments will be available and accessible when it needs them.