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Your next patient is a 17-year-old female who is interested in contraception. While she says she knows about the contraceptive patch and the vaginal ring, when you ask her about their effectiveness in preventing sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), she gives you a puzzled look.
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As the number of international research protocols increase, the problems faced by reviewing IRBs increase. International research is taking more and more IRB time, says Howard Guenther, PhD, MBA, associate vice chancellor for research and interim executive secretary of the Institutional Review Board at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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A new study from researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston indicates that a long-held belief among oncologists that patients who participate in clinical trials have better outcomes overall than those who do not may not be supported by empirical evidence.
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Removing financial incentives to providers and employers that are designed to influence coverage decisions and recruiting patient representatives to participate in designing health care benefit packages are two measures that can help ensure that health care coverage decisions are fair and equitable, says a new report from an independent research arm of the American Medical Association (AMA) in Chicago.
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Youd think it would be easy to recruit patients for studies just put an ad in the paper or talk to patients at the clinic. Everyone wants to help science advance, right? Maybe, but that doesnt mean they want to be a subject in a clinical trial.
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Goiter literally means the enlargement of the thyroid gland, independent of its cause. Historically, this terminology specifically was reserved for a visibly enlarged thyroid gland. During the past few decades of modern medical practice, the term has come to include both visible as well as palpable thyroid enlargement. This article will review the pathophysiologic processes leading to goiter formation and will provide a logical approach to the diagnosis and management of different entities, the end result of which is an enlarged thyroid gland.
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The flu season may be coming to a close, but the push for hospitals to improve their preparedness to prevent the spread of emerging infectious diseases is just gathering steam.
