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Clinical trials play an instrumental role in healthcare, aimed at ensuring that new medical treatments are safe and effective. The number of clinical trials conducted in India every year has steadily been rising in recent years. India is presently poised to become ‘one of the largest clinical trial hubs’, contract research organisation George Clinical announced last year. This is a remarkable shift. A little more than a decade ago, India accounted for just two percent of clinical trials worldwide. Even in the past few years, the jump has been remarkable. In 2015, 859 registered trials took place in India. By November 2018, this number jumped to 3,869. The low cost of conducting trials in India compared to other wealthier nations makes the country an attractive spot for pharmaceutical companies to carry out such studies. Enrolment is often higher and regulations are more relaxed. Yet the trend of rising numbers of clinical trials has not come without a human cost. "Since … Read Full Article about Clinical trials: The human cost