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Like most, I was inspired by the rescue of the Chilean miners in October. I felt an enormous urge to accomplish something significant, to finish projects I had left dangling or follow up on other issues that individually weren't a big deal but collectively were.
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Research sites that work with minority, international, or vulnerable populations should be particularly sensitive to continuing fall-out from recent revelations of strikingly unethical behavior by U.S. researchers in Guatemala in the 1940s.
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No one can predict yet whether or not the growing infamy of the Guatemalan syphilis study results in enrollment problems for researchers engaged in international research.
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Investigators at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, have found an electronic solution to the problem of collecting accurate data about subjects' daily activities.
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Academic researchers spend a large chunk of their time on paperwork. Regulatory and institutional burdens could seem overwhelming.
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One of the chief problems with adverse event reports is these often cast a net so wide that many disease symptoms are swept up with the reports. This particularly is an issue with oncology clinical trials.
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Quality assessments can be a good strategy for finding compliance problems that otherwise would fly under the radar. These not-for-cause audits require some staffing resources, but if handled efficiently they uncover problematic trends and bad habits before an issue becomes serious.
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Acetaminophen (known as paracetamol outside the United States) is the most commonly used analgesic in the world, usually considered to be safe and benign.
