{"id":479691,"date":"2026-10-28T21:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479691\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:18:10","slug":"clinical-trial-center-opens-at-greater-houston-walmart-katy-fulshear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479691\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical trial center opens at Greater Houston Walmart | Katy &#8211; Fulshear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walmart.com\/cp\/walmart-healthcare-research-institute\/4379404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Walmart Healthcare Research Institute<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/careaccess.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Care Access<\/a> have partnered to streamline the way people engage in clinical research.<\/p>\n<p>The overview\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Walmart and Care Access held an Oct. 27 ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new Greater Houston clinical trial center, located at 3506 Hwy. 6 S.<\/p>\n<p>How it works<\/p>\n<p>The center holds five patient rooms where people come for health screenings, education and in-trial activities, said Dr. Emily Aaronson, who serves as chief medical officer for Walmart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Qualified individuals can receive free health screenings for a variety of conditions including kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, lung disease and Alzheimer&#8217;s, Care Access CEO Ahmad Namvargolian said.<\/p>\n<p>After a person receives their results, Care Access notifies them if their health background matches a clinical trial.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Oh, Care Access\u2019 senior vice president of marketing, said the company sought out areas where there are no clinical research opportunities nearby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClinical trials are a critical part about how we develop new treatments and medicines for the future and for everyone,\u201d Oh said. \u201cThe problem ultimately is that there&#8217;s not enough representation in clinical trials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zooming out<\/p>\n<p>There are other clinical trial centers in Tyler, Texas, as well as in Georgia and Florida with more slated to open in early to mid-2027 in San Antonio, Texas, as well as in Michigan and Nevada, Oh said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walmart Healthcare Research Institute and Care Access have partnered to streamline the way people engage in clinical research.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[161834,161831,161832,161833,5443,151633,56,58,57,161835,20263],"class_list":["post-479691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-ahmad-namvargolian","tag-care-access","tag-clinical-trial-center","tag-emily-aaronson","tag-greater-houston","tag-health-screenings","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-joseph-oh","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}