Absolute required reading for anyone who designs protocols or is engaged in recruiting patients into clinical trials: Susan Guber writes eloquently about her experiences as a participant in cancer clinical trials.
New York Times Well Blog: The Trials of Cancer Trials
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| Today's #FDAFridayPhoto features Harvey Wiley, leader of the famed FDA "Poison Squad". |
The popular press in India continues to be disingenuous and exploitative in its coverage of clinical trial deaths in that country. (My previous thoughts on that are here.) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, an industry leader, has put together an intelligent and articulate antidote.
The Economic Times: Need a rational view on clinical trials
Rahlen Gossen exhibits mastery of the understatement: “Though the Facebook Insights dashboard is a great place to start, it has a few significant disadvantages.” She also provides a good overview of the most common pitfalls you’ll encounter when you try to get good metrics out of your Facebook campaign.
Rebar Interactive Blog: Metrics Gone Wrong: Facebook “Likes” in Clinical Research
I have not had a chance to watch it yet, but I’m excited to see that theHeart.org has just posted a 7-part video editorial series by Yale’s Harlan Krumholz and Duke Stanford’s Bob Harrington on “a frank discussion on the controversies in the world of clinical trials”.
theHeart.org: Rethinking clinical trials and research in cardiology
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