Some diseases are more neglected than others. This is the case with snakebites, which are responsible for more than 100,000 deaths every year worldwide. A recent MSF publication in Toxicon X highlights the resources needed to improve the management of snakebite venom poisoning in resource-limited settings.

Clinical trials have played an essential role in the discovery of critical treatments and vaccines in modern medicine, and yet the question of how they could be done better in order to improve public health outcomes has not had the attention it deserves — until now.