Enhanced Access to Clinical Trials

With the support of SiteRx™,  Bowie Internal Medicine is now offering patients access to a variety of clinical trials. If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the clinical trials available, please contact us.

What is a Clinical Trial?

Clinical trials are research trials. They evaluate the benefits and possible side effects of new medications. These medications are used to treat diseases or conditions. Most medications that are prescribed by doctors have been tested in clinical trials.

Benefits of Being in a Clinical Trial

Why should you consider participating in a clinical trial? Great questions. Some people are concerned over taking a medication that hasn’t been fully tested. However, there are many benefits to clinical trials. First, clinical trials offer the opportunity for you to receive a new treatment before it is available to the public, at no cost to you.

Additionally, participating in a clinical trail may help advance medicine or treatment options for a particular condition or disease.

During the clinical trial you receive medical oversight and testing in addition to the care you receive from your primary doctor. Furthermore, some clinical trials include special diagnostic that are not typically available to the public or aren’t covered by insurance. So, you could potentially receive access to these advanced diagnostics, at no additional cost.

SiteRx

Site Rx is a company that helps us offer as many care options as possible to our patients. This company helps us identify clinical trials that would benefit our patients. So, as new studies become available that we believe you would be a good candidate for, we will refer you to our partners at SiteRx.

They will contact you and provide information on the trial and what it entails. Then they will give you time to decide if you are interested. If you are, they will help you begin the next steps of enrollment and help ensure that you have a good experience.

Types of Clinical Trials

There are many clinical trials, and we couldn’t possibly list them all. However, we can give you a quick overview. There are trials for new medications to treat:

·         Dementia

·         Mild Cognitive Impairment

·         Alzheimer's Disease (treatment and prevention)

·         Relapsing MS

·         RRMS

·         ALS

·         DLB/PDD

·         Parkinson’s

·        other miscellaneous trials for things like migraines or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

Clinical Trials in Maryland

To learn more about the availability of clinic trials, please contact Bowie Internal Medicine today.