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For the past five years, the proportion of women physicians conducting clinical research has declined, despite increasing numbers of women graduating from medical school, according to a researcher who has studied trends in clinical research for two decades.
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A coordinator who was the most successful nationally in recruiting African Americans for a clinical trial involving the study of drugs to prevent breast cancer, says that long-term trust can only be achieved with a long-term commitment.
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A successful compliance program begins with education, which is why a research compliance director at the University of Texas at Arlington has created a comprehensive compliance educational program that has been exported to research institutions around the country.
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For about seven years, clinical research leaders and the FDA have collaborated to develop research submission data standards in an effort to improve clinical trial efficiency, reduce costs, and cut delays.
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The reality of clinical trial enrollment is well known to all in the clinical trial industry: it's increasingly difficult to recruit study participants. This means that the people who are recruited are exceedingly valuable, and it is particularly frustrating to lose any of them at follow-up.
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Discussion about the merits and drawbacks of using patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) as subjects for experiments in xenotransplantation gathered some notice.
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Patients hospitalized at University of Rochester (NY) Medical Center might not be able to kick the habit during their hospitalization, but staff will no longer be aiding their addiction.
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The right of competent, informed patients to reject lifesaving therapies has been affirmed by courts at every level, but a group of ethicists at the University of Pennsylvania wondered whether the line is as clear when it comes to supplemental oxygen.
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Ethics rules aimed at curbing conflicts of interest of National Institutes of Health (NIH) employees should have a positive impact on public opinion of NIH credibility, a survey of agency employees revealed.
