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If it weren't for the thousands of clinical trials involving human participants that medical researchers conduct every year, there would no way to know if new drugs or methods of treatment would be safe and effective for use by humans. More than 3,000 clinical trials have been conducted in South Carolina since 1999. However, the rates of participation in trials for African Americans and other minorities are very low, and medical authorities in the state and around the nation are working to increase participation by African Americans and other ethnic minorities. Among them is Dr. Marvella Ford, associate director of cancer disparities at the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Dr. Ford on the current edition of Insight.

For more information about clinical trials, visit: http://www.scresearch.org/

Insight airs Monday and Wednesday at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

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Comprehensive health care reform (or the Affordable Care Act) will go into full effect on January 1, 2014. Until then, but even after that date, many Americans will not have health insurance. Fortunately, there are individual healthcare providers and facilities that provide free medical care for those who can't afford it. Among those providers is the Smith Free Medical Clinic on Pawleys Island. On the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Anne Faul, executive director of the Smith Clinic, about the work she and the staff do to meet the needs of the health and medical needs of the underserved.

http://www.smithfreeclinic.org/

Insight airs on Monday and Wednesday at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

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