clinical trials

Women Are Under-enrolled in Cancer Clinical Trials

harminka — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:26:06 -0500

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.

Using peptide in bone graft system and initiates clinical trials

harminka — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:08:17 -0600

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.

Unfavourable results often go unpublished

harminka — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:35:36 -0600

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.

Tumor size measuring new criteria will help ease workloads in clinical trials

harminka — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:22:53 -0600

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.

Misleading media coverage of medicine

harminka — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:57:16 -0600

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.

Age is not a key factor in cancer survival

harminka — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:19:24 -0600

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

Assessing the quality of phase I clinical trial abstracts

harminka — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:38:12 -0500

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).

FDA Approved Drug Trials Stay Unpublished

Armen Hareyan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:05:11 -0500

Supporting trials for FDA approved drugs often stay unpublished making physicians less informed about new drugs.

Why aren't pregnant women included in clinical trials?

harminka — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:30:02 -0500

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.

2 new therapies show promise for cancer patients

harminka — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:17:14 -0500

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

Aborigines Claim Their Kids Used In Medical Experiments

Armen Hareyan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:19:00 -0500

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

Patient Data Sharing For Clinical Trials And The Risk of Loss

Armen Hareyan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:11:52 -0500

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.