Naval Medical Research Center

of other, earlier discoveries - often unconnected to each other, and in various fields. Sometimes the research is done for non-medical purposes, and only by chance contributes to the field of medicine as was the case with antibiotics and penicillin. Medical researchers use these discoveries to create a treatment regimen, which is then tested in clinical trials. If these trials have been well designed and are successfully duplicated by independent laboratories
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