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Are You Considering a Clinical Trial for Your Child?

We know that any decision regarding your child’s health is important. Participating in a clinical trial is a deeply personal decision, and choosing the best care option for your child can feel overwhelming. It is important to take time to gather information and discuss your treatment and investigational options with your child’s doctor, your family, or others in your support system.

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Why Consider a Clinical Trial for Your Child?

Why Consider a Clinical Trial for Your Child?

Expanding new or existing treatments for pediatric conditions would not be possible without clinical trial volunteers. Pediatric clinical trials could help us develop new medicines that are safe and effective for children. Before deciding if a clinical trial is a good option for you and your child, it is important to learn more about the available trials to make informed decisions about your child’s care options.

The buttons below provide downloadable guides to learn more about participating in a clinical trial.
Participant Guide for Parents and Caregivers
Participant Guide for Kids and Teens

Frequently Asked Questions

Here are three FAQs often asked by parents, caregivers and children. You can also see a full list of other FAQs by clicking the purple button in the banner at the bottom of this page.

  • Clinical trials look at an investigational drug or medical device to see if it is safe for children, how it works in the body, and if it works to treat a specific disease. Clinical trials are conducted by doctors who are responsible for the study participants’ study-related care.

  • To learn more about alternative treatment options for pediatric conditions and help researchers find potential new treatments options for future patients.

  • This will vary depending on the study. The informed consent form (ICF) will detail the visit schedule and what will occur at each visit, and the study team is available to answer any questions.

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Available Clinical Trials

Click on the Find Resources and Explore link below the disease you are interested in to find the clinical trials currently available.  You will also be able to pre-screen from that page or from the specific study page that you choose.

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Cardiovascular Disease Clinical Trials

When a child must undergo a pediatric cardiovascular procedure, it’s often done to correct a heart problem the child was born with.1

 Find Resources and Explore Cardiovascular  Clinical Trials

Eosinophillic Esophagitis (EOE) Clinical Trials

Eosinophilic esophagitis, also known as (EoE), is a chronic disease that occurs in both children and adolescents, resulting in inflammation or irritation of the esophagus.2 Find resources and explore EoE trial opportunities.

 Find Resources and Explore Eosinophillic Esophagitis (EOE) Clinical Trials

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Trials

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which can include Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, is an inflammatory disease affecting as many as 80,000 children and adolescents.3 Find resources and explore IBD trial opportunities.

 Find Resources and Explore Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Trials

Psoriasis Clinical Trials

Psoriasis is a disease that causes itchy, dry patches on your skin.  Up to 40% of people with psoriasis have symptoms before they're 16 years old, and 10% get it before they're 106. Find resources and explore psoriasis clinical trial opportunities.

Find Resorces and Explore Psoriasis  Clinical Trials

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Research Versus Care

Research Versus Care

Expanding new or existing treatments for pediatric conditions would not be possible without clinical trial volunteers. Pediatric clinical trials could help us develop new medicines that are safe and effective for children. Before deciding if a clinical trial is a good option for you and your child, it is important to learn more about the available trials to make informed decisions about your child’s care options. 
Learn More about Research Versus Care 7

Should My Child Participate in a Clinical Trial?

Deciding whether to enroll your child in a clinical trial can be complicated. Read more on how to navigate these decisions for your family.
Learn More about Participating in Pediatric Trials 8

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A Commitment to Diversity

A Commitment to Diversity

Bristol Myers Squibb is united by our mission to transform patient’s lives through science by discovering, developing, and delivering innovative medicines that help prevail over serious diseases.  To that end, we are committed to doing our part to help ensure patients have a fair and just opportunity to achieve optimal health outcomes.

Children are not little adults, but many medications and treatments are prescribed that way.  The best way to understand how drugs work in children is to test them in children, through a pediatric clinical trial.

We are working to improve the recruitment of diverse patients, including children and adolescents, with the goal that the clinical trial population becomes more reflective of the real world population and the people impacted by the diseases studied.

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We strongly recommend you contact BMS to report Side Effects (Adverse Events)
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Have questions? Live support is available 24/7 - Call 855-907-3286 or email clinical.trials@bms.com

Have questions? Live support is available 24/7 -
Call 855-907-3286 or email clinical.trials@bms.com