# The Mega Trial

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Podcast: [Movers and Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's](https://stenobird.com/podcast/movers-and-shakers-a-podcast-about-life-with-parkinson-s-6197501)
Published: 2025-11-29T05:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/movers-and-shakers-a-podcast-about-life-with-parkinsons/episodes/692a36985cace2e2a5f43606
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## Resource

How do you run clinical trials that maximise the efficiency for patients, clinicians and drugs developers? That's the challenge being addressed by world's largest ever clinical trial of Parkinson's medications. To discuss this new, and potentially extremely effective, way of runnings multiple trials simultaneously, the Movers & Shakers are joined at the pub by some of the core team from the project, who answer their questions and consider whether this represents the future of clinical trials. This special episode is sponsored by Cure Parkinson's. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman. Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot. Sound mixing by Ewan Cameron. Music by Alex Stobbs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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