Clinical trials once rarely made the headlines – unless something went drastically wrong – but the past couple of years has changed all that. Amid the full blaze of the pandemic, we saw queues round the block as people volunteered to take part in vaccine clinical trials. The necessity and value of testing new vaccines was particularly evident as the Covid-19 health crisis first gripped nations across the world. And work on vaccines continues – last month, it was announced that Pfizer and BioNTech had started clinical trials for a new Covid vaccine targeting the Omicron variant.
A correct diagnosis can sometimes take time and patients often look for online support groups and communities to help so improving communications around health and wellbeing is the most effective way to mitigate against the rise of ‘cyberchondria’ born from self-diagnosis and Dr. Google.
