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People participating in pain research report having complex combinations of reasons for enrolling part altruism, part seeking new treatments, part simply having their pain understood and taken seriously.
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IRBs striving to ensure they're not inadvertently approving a seeding trial have a tough job ahead of them.
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Many in IRB circles have worried about the potential existence of "seeding" trials, which are defined as clinical trials that seek to market a product rather than answer a legitimate scientific question.
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A new web-based data management system serving clinical research has improved data collection and accuracy through an ongoing data collection and analysis process.
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Cigarettes and pregnancy are a risky combination, and there is an abundance of data to indicate that perinatal outcome is improved if patients can abstain from smoking.
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In the Issue: Ongoing safety review of tiotropium; raloxifene reduces the risk of endometrial cancer; one-day treatment with famciclovir may be as effective as 3-day treatment with valacyclovir; new Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians regarding pharmacologic treatment for low bone density and osteoporosis; FDA Actions.
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July of this year represented the 5-year anniversary of the publication of Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) protocol 178, a pivotal trial demonstrating the significant impact of 9 additional months of paclitaxel chemotherapy to women who had achieved a complete clinical response to primary therapy.