A Tradition of Trailblazers

Medical breakthroughs surround us - vaccines that prevent diseases…imaging equipment that lets us see inside the human body better than ever before…surgical techniques that allow operations through the smallest of incisions…human DNA mapping that has the potential to unravel the causes of illnesses and find cures. While we can marvel at how much medicine has accomplished, there is still much to do.

Massachusetts General Hospital, with the largest hospital-based research program in the country, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, with one of the most powerful biomedical research institutes in the world, grapple with some of the most complex problems in medicine. Home to Nobel Prize winners, ranked by U.S. News & World Report Annual Guide to America’s Best Hospitals as two of the top medical facilities in the country, these hospitals have made many important discoveries that have advanced basic medical science, technology and patient treatment.

These creative scientists and physicians have made leading-edge advances hand-in-hand with the assistance of health study volunteers - incredible people who are willing to participate in clinical studies that help determine if research ideas hold promise for better treatments, prevention and cures.

A Special Opportunity

A clinical trial is a research study to answer specific questions about new therapies or new ways of using known treatments. Clinical trials, also called medical research and research studies, are used to determine whether new drugs or treatments are both safe and effective. Carefully conducted clinical trials are the fastest and safest way to find treatments that work in people.

Volunteers can come from all walks of life and be any gender or any age. Studies need healthy volunteers as well as ones who have an illness or inherited disorder, and welcome people of all cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds.

A Feeling of Satisfaction

Choosing to participate in a research study is an important personal decision. Some RSVP for Health volunteers do so because they have a desire to provide a benefit to the community and help keep medicine moving forward. Others, who may have a condition that has not responded to conventional methods, welcome the opportunity to have access to an investigational treatment not available anywhere else. Whatever the reason for volunteering, each and every volunteer is crucial in shaping the future of medicine.

An Invitation To Partner With Us

RSVP for Health allows you to register to receive information about studies of interest you.
Your local library is an excellent place for you to learn more about clinical trials in general. You may also visit the federal government’s website at http://clinicaltrials.gov/.

To register in RSVP for Health, click here.