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Sweet smell of success for patients taking the sugar pill
15 January 2019 - A placebo is anything that seems to offer a real medical treatment, but doesn’t. It could ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2019
Challenges of non-intention-to-treat analyses
15 January 2019 - Over the past 5 decades, the randomised clinical trial has become the gold standard for evaluation ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2018
Establishing the effectiveness of procedural interventions: the limited role of randomised trials
18 December 2018 - Procedural interventions comprise a large and growing component of medical care. Patients, physicians, health care organisations, and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Dec 2018
Metastasis-free survival in prostate cancer: faster drug approvals, better drugs?
12 December 2018 - On 13 February 2018, the US FDA granted marketing authorisation to apalutamide for treatment of non-metastatic castration-resistant ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Dec 2018
Australia's first telehealth cancer drug trial
3 December 2018 - A partnership between north Queensland hospitals is bringing potentially life-saving cancer drug trials to rural patients. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Nov 2018
The evolution of adaptiveness: balancing speed and evidence
29 November 2018 - 'Adaptive' approaches to bringing drugs to market have been widely discussed in recent years. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Oct 2018
Lung cancer survivor wants PHARMAC to fund drugs she received in trial
22 October 2018 - Lung cancer patient Marjolein Baas takes the drug ceritinib, one of six lung cancer treatment drugs the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Oct 2018
Congratulations. Your study went nowhere.
23 September 2018 - Researchers should embrace negative results instead of accentuating the positive, which is one of several biases that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Sep 2018
CDER conversation: complex innovative trial designs
25 September 2018 - Complex innovative trial designs – including the use of adaptive, Bayesian, and other novel statistical approaches ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Sep 2018
Cost of clinical trials for new drug FDA approval are fraction of total tab
24 September 2018 - Clinical trials that support FDA approvals of new drugs have a median cost of $19 million, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Sep 2018
FDA proposes stiff fines for failing to report clinical trials
20 September 2018 - Pharmaceutical companies could face penalties of up to US$10,000 per day. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Sep 2018
Using evidence from randomised controlled trials in economic models: what information is relevant and is there a minimum amount of sample data required to make decisions?
21 September 2018 - Evidence from randomised controlled trials is used to support regulatory approval and reimbursement decisions. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Sep 2018
Harvard Professor's attack on pharma's clinical trials is absurd
18 September 2018 - Dr. Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School and the first woman to serve as ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Sep 2018
Compliance with requirement to report results on the EU Clinical Trials Register: cohort study and web resource
12 September 2018 - Following the 2012 EC guideline, sponsors must ensure that all trials registered on EUCTR since 2004 disclose ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Aug 2018
Choice of control group in randomised trials of cancer medicine: are we testing trivialities?
31 August 2018 - Several trials in cancer medicine over the past 5 years share two common features: first, they were ...