Women continue to be under-enrolled in cancer clinical trials, according to a new review, published in the July 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results suggest that greater efforts are needed to ensure that oncologists know the true effects of treatments and medical procedures in female patients.

Brookhaven Science Associates, the company that operates and manages the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), and Biosurface Engineering Technologies, Inc. (BioSET), have been issued a U.S. patent on a synthetic peptide, called B2A.

Trials showing a positive treatment effect, or those with important or striking findings, were much more likely to be published in scientific journals than those with negative findings, a new review from The Cochrane Library has found.

The first, formal revision of specific guidelines, known as RECIST, used by clinicians to measure tumour size and response to treatment, has been published in a special issue of the European Journal of Cancer. The authors say that the revisions will ease the workload involved in running clinical trials, without compromising study outcomes.

Media coverage of clinical trials does not contain the elements readers require to make informed decisions. A comparison of the coverage received by pharmaceutical and herbal remedy trials, reported in the open access journal BMC Medicine, has revealed that it is rarely possible for the lay public to assess the credibility of the described research.

60 percent of cancer patients are older, but they are 'systematically excluded' from clinical trials

Researchers have developed a method of assessing the quality of phase I clinical trial abstracts submitted to two different oncology conferences: EORTC-NCI-AACR (ENA) and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

Supporting trials for FDA approved drugs often stay unpublished making physicians less informed about new drugs.

That's the question posed by leading bioethicists at Duke University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, who say it's time to confront the challenges that have led to the exclusion of pregnant women from important research that could positively impact maternal and fetal health.

Clinical researchers at Scottsdale Healthcare and TGen today announced the results of two clinical trials that show promise for patients battling cancer.

A representative of Australia's Stolen Generations' Alliance of Aborigines has told a Senate committee that some Aboriginal children were used for medical experimentation.

While the autorities are investigating a possible theft of personal identity information, including names, phone numbers, and in some cases social security numbers, of approximately 40,000 hospital patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, an article from JAMA looks at Data-Sharing in clinical trials for heart disease on when and how to share patient data, and when to suspend a study.