International Clinical Trials Day

• Honors the improvement of health and wellbeing through clinical trials
• Celebrated on May 20 of each year
• May 20, 1747 was the day James Lind, an 18th Century surgeon, started his famous trial in which he tested the differing effects of using water and vinegar versus oranges and lemons to treat sailors with scurvy.  
• The fruit resulted in a more beneficial effect for the sailors than the water and vinegar and the function of the clinical trial was born.