Orva points the way, and you take each step
Orva explains, links and sends optional updates. It never passes your details to a study and never signs you up for one. Here is the whole of it.
Read
Start with one of six areas or a guide. Each area page explains what studies there look at and the lines their listings often use.
Search
Every area page opens a live search of ClinicalTrials.gov, the public register, already set to that condition and to studies that are recruiting.
Contact
If a listing interests you, call or email the study team it names. They decide who takes part, after their own screening.
Stay informed
If you like, Orva sends occasional texts or emails about research in its six areas. You can stop them with one reply.
Read, Search, Contact, Stay informed, No referrals, No fees, Stop any time
Questions worth asking a study team,
and where to read more
Which lines in the criteria apply to me, and which can you check for me?
Who will see information that carries my name?
How long does my part last, and how often are the visits?
Can I keep seeing my own doctor during the study?
What every study volunteer can count on
You can stop taking part in a study whenever you choose, without giving a reason. Your regular care carries on exactly as before.
Before you agree to anything, the study team explains the study and answers your questions. You can take the consent form home and read it there.
A study does not replace your own doctor. You keep seeing them, and you can ask the study team to keep them informed.
If the team learns something during the study that might change your mind about taking part, they tell you.
Research on people is reviewed by an ethics board before it begins, to check that the risks are explained and kept as low as they can be.
Everything people ask us
An information service about clinical research in six areas of health. Orva explains what studies look at, links to the public register, and sends optional updates by text or email. It does not run studies or treat anyone.
No. A text or email from Orva can tell you about research, but it never enrolls you in anything. If a study interests you, you contact its team yourself, and the team decides who takes part.
No. Your details stay with Orva and are used only to send the updates you asked for. Study teams, sponsors and research sites never receive them.
Nothing Orva offers costs anything. Message and data rates from your mobile carrier may apply to texts.
Only now and then, and never more than four times in a month. Reply STOP to any text to end them, or HELP for help.
Yes. Orva writes about all six areas, and its updates follow them. If they stop being useful, reply STOP to any text.
Orva only writes about these six areas, but ClinicalTrials.gov lists studies in every area of health, and our guide to reading a study listing works for any of them.
It is a good idea. Your doctor knows your history and can help you think through whether a study suits you. Taking part never replaces your regular care.
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