Articles Tagged With:
-
Programs Aim to Make LARC a Choice for Women
The success of the Contraceptive CHOICE Project in removing financial barriers to contraception, promoting the most effective methods of birth control, and reducing unintended pregnancy is no longer an isolated event.
-
Report: Many At-risk Americans Aren’t Seeking Cholesterol Control
Investigators uncover striking gap between awareness and treatment.
-
Research Links Depression to Atrial Fibrillation
More evidence demonstrates that mental health and heart health are closely related.
-
Wound Care Management
Primary care physicians usually can care for minor wounds in their offices. This article highlights key elements in first-line management.
-
Into the Gray: Local IRBs Must Define Research
It’s only fitting, with the revised Common Rule in limbo, that there should remain some uncertainty about what constitutes human research — and what doesn’t.
-
A Twist in the Use of Spices: Prebiotic Effect
SYNOPSIS: Seven spices were found to contain numerous antioxidant phytochemicals and have an overall, but variable, prebiotic effect on 88 known species of microbiome bacteria.
-
Five Years in the Making, FDA Issues Final Rule on Data and Devices
The FDA issued a final rule, effective Feb. 21, 2019, to revise regulations about accepting data from clinical studies involving medical devices.
-
The Search for Justice in the Human Genome
With sequencing of the human genome completed at the turn of this century, there was the heady expectation that the summit to great cures was about to be climbed like the iconic spiral staircase of DNA.
-
Cardiovascular Nutrition Demystified
The authors of this review of key nutritional studies compiled evidence-based information on foods and dietary patterns that support cardiovascular health and demystified those that have incorrectly been identified as beneficial to cardiovascular health.
-
Preparation, Communication Key to Establishing IRB of Record
The first time the Vanderbilt University and Medical Center IRB served as an IRB of record was 15 years ago — a decade before the concept began to catch on with multisite clinical trials and large IRBs.