Clinical Trials

Knowing What's Right Could Help Improve Patient-Centered Outcomes

Doug Peddicord | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Clinical Trials, Health Care Reform, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Health Care, President Barack Obama, Politics News

"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right." These words, spoken by Lyndon Johnson, could apply to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute which is clearly trying to "do right" but has shown little evidence that it knows what is.

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The Democratization of Health Care: Clinical Research and Quality Health Care for Minority Populations

Gary Puckrein | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Health Care Quality, Health Care Reform, Clinical Trials, Clinical Research, Fda, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

The American clinical research system is not designed to maximize the potential for the best possible outcomes of health services that are delivered to all American health care consumers.

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Cancer One, War Less Than One

Jonathan Agin | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Clinical Trials, Cancer, War on Cancer, Fda, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Alexis Agin, Institutional-Review-Board, Childhood Cancer, Impact News

The FDA and the institutional review boards, rather than being impediments to patients gaining access to potentially life-saving drugs, must become a partner with patients. Regulatory impediments before parents must be eased.

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Are Clinical Trials Exploiting India's Poor?

Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Clinical Trials, India, Bhopal, India Poverty, Astra Zeneca, Al Jazeera, Fault Lines, Video, World News

Clinical trials have always been part of the pharmaceutical industry, but what if a large number of those trying out new medicines live below the pove...

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Dangerous? Keeping An Eye On Trendy Cosmetic Surgeries

Robert Tornambe, M.D. | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Clinical Trials, Cosmetic Procedures, Beauty and Skin, Plastic Surgery, Vampire Facelift, Liposuction, Cosmetic Surgery, Cosmetic Scams, Healthy Living News

So my mantra when it comes to cosmetic products and procedures is: show me the science! And I am not talking about fake testimonials or anecdotal experiences.

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California Versus the Valley of Death

Don C. Reed | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Clinical Trials, Valley of Death, Inc., President Obama, Science, Bob Klein, Stem Cell Research, Geron, Politics News

There is a place you will not find on any map. It has no physical location. But it is real nonetheless, and a danger to all mankind. It is the Valley of Death, where new medicines die.

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Why Do Clinical Trials Exclude Depressed People?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clinical Trials, Mental Health, Clinical Trials Depression, Clinical Trials and Depression, Home News

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced in 2009 that Pfizer Inc's smoking-cessation drug Chantix would need to carry a restrictive "b...

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The Problem With Randomized Clinical Trials For Medical Research

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Clinical Trials, New Cancer Treatments, Cancer Treatment, Medical Research, Health, Healthy Living News

In this story, Thomas received the new drug, while his cousin Brandon, as luck would have it, was assigned to the control group, given a notoriously ineffective treatment.

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Human Embryonic Stem Cells Approved by FDA for Clinical Trials, Yet Totally Ignored by the Media

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Parkinson's Disease, Karl Rove, President Obama, Diabetes, Heart Failure, Macular Degeneration, George W Bush, Food and Drug Administration, Clinical Trials, Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Healthy Living News

If these new stem cells are safe, and perform as hoped, the first injection in patients that took place last Friday will be the 21st century's "shot-heard-round-the-world".

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Would you drink your own urine if it would save your life?

Lisa Guest | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Urine Cure, Clinical Trials, Cancer, Ritual, Pepper Garlic Sandwiches, Chocolate, Cancer Treatment, Chemotherapy, City of Hope, Healthy Living News

A healer from Guatemala suggested I drink my own urine. Is that what my life will become? Instead of my morning ritual with PERO (coffee alternative) I'll be sipping my own morning's waste material?

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Clinical Trials And The Lure Of Fast Cash -- What You Should Know

Helene Pavlov, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Clinical Trials, Dr Helene Pavlov, Clinical Research, Hospital for Special Surgery, Health, Healthy Living News

Concern about health is especially important when a child goes off to school or college. One such potential danger is medical researchers looking for healthy students hoping to make a fast buck.

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Can You Trust Your Psychiatrist?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Clinical Trials, Psychiatry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Zyprexa, Eli Lilly, National Alliance for Mental Illness, National-Mental-Health-Association, Psychiatric Drugs, National Institute of Mental Health, Advertising-Industry, US Justice Department, Healthy Living News

If you can't trust big Pharma with its capacity to influence doctors then how can you trust your psychiatrist?

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Innovations in Phase IV Clinical Trials for Change in Health Care

Sunil Chacko | Posted 05.25.2011

For dying patients with no therapy that is working, compassionate use programs exist to provide drugs in phase II or III clinical trials when the patient was ineligible to participate in the trial.

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Daschle Should Remember There Are Some Things That Are Better

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clinical Trials, Health and Human Services, Health, President Elect Obama, Tom Daschle, Politics News

With 47 million Americans lacking health insurance and a woeful absence of emphasis on any type of preventive health care in our country, Tom Daschle faces a vital but Herculean task.

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