Has anyone taken part in a clinical research study with Covance? If so, what did you do? How was it? Worth it?

Basically I am thinking about taking part in one of these research studies because I really need some money. I am just wondering what the experience was like and what you did from day to day. What did you have for meals and what did you do to stay entertained?

Has anyone taken part in a clinical research study with Covance? If so, what did you do? How was it? Worth it?
Covance is just one of many contract research organizations that conduct clinical research for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Your treatment within the clinical trial will be largely controlled by the sponsor of the trial that is paying Covance to conduct it. You could be in several different trials with Covance and be treated very differently each time.





At some point in the clinical research process, a drug needs to be given to humans for the very first time. Are you willing to be a human guinea pig and how much is it worth to you? The trials are regulated and controlled, but there is risk.





Typically, the people who volunteer for these kinds of trials need money. They will make you read an informed consent and sign it. In there, it will describe any known potential risks. Some of them may be unlikely, but read the document carefully and ask questions. If you don't think the risk is worth it for the money involved, don't do it.





The meals that you will get are described in the informed consent, too. Often, the diet is very controlled because they want to make sure that any side effects that you experience are only caused by the drug and not by the food. Usually, all you have for entertainment are books and TV.





"Almost" all of these studies are successful without anything dangerous happening to the test subjects. The most famous failure was study in the UK where Parexel (another CRO) was running a study for TeGenero and the six human volunteers suffered an immediate and severe reaction to the drug. Two of them almost died. The link below provides some background and links to other aspects of the story. The results of the trial forced TeGenero out of business.





I point this one trial out to you, not to scare you, but to make sure that you enter any clinical trial fully understanding that there are some risks.
Reply:Stay away from the clinical studies. No need for you to be a guinea pig and heaven forbid develop some kind of condition that not treatable unless you already have a terminal disease and you have nothing to lose. Now I searched Covance and interestingly (and not at all shocking) enough. I was only able to find the following: "Covance - one of the world's largest and most comprehensive drug ... Handles participant complaints efficiently and effectively in order that their ..." This is where it ends and I found 3 links with the same statement, but no explanation of what the complaints were or how they were handled. I'm not shocked. This is a multi-billion dollar organization that's been around over 30 years. Too much at stake for any of those stories to get out. They would lose participants. Look, the dollar you get in your pocket today may not be worth it a year from now. No one ever knows what's going to happen after being a part of a clinical trial.

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