Velocity Clinical Research highlights World Clinical Trial Day

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) – Velocity Clinical Research held a celebration in Gulfport on Monday to recognize Global Clinical Trial Day, commemorating the first-ever clinical trial back in 1774.

Velocity recruitment partner Pam Taylor and the rest of her team are stressing the importance of clinical research and the need for people to participate.

”If you look in your medicine cabinet anything that you take has to go through clinical trial, it has to be FDA approved and the only way to receive FDA approval is through a clinical trial,” Taylor said. “If you just take something for high blood pressure that has been through a clinical trial, they have to participate to be in these clinical trials in order to see the efficacy of the drug that they are studying.”

Gulfport resident Bobbi Naquin said she’s getting help from Velocity to improve her health and well-being.

Naquin says she’s come a long way participating in a clinical trial and she said it’s been a lifesaver.

“I have some health issues that weren’t getting resolved,” Naquin said.

Naquin said she started a trial several months ago because she’s been struggling with a cardiac issue. She said she’s waiting for treatment to be approved by the FDA.

“I have to be really careful about what I take how I take it and to make sure that I’m getting checked up,” she said.

Velocity Clinical Research on the coast participated in one of the largest national trials looking at the RSV vaccine and pregnant women. That research found the vaccine if given to expectant mothers could prevent the disease in their newborn babies.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccine, which is now in use.

A clinical trial has four phases. Those phases focus on safety, effectiveness, and long-term benefits of the treatment. Studies show they save one million lives.

“It speeds up that process for those people who really need it,” Velocity Clinical Research participant Merry Mayo said. “Especially those that depend on insulin or cholesterol drugs or any of those things that helps them get their drugs that they would need faster.”

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