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Are big clinical trials relevant? Researchers disagree
29 May 2018 - Amid health care tailored to an individual’s DNA, do massive clinical trials that take years and involve ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Mar 2018
Key design considerations for adaptive clinical trials: a primer for clinicians
8 March 2018 - This article reviews important considerations for researchers who are designing adaptive clinical trials. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Feb 2018
The stepped-wedge clinical trial
13 February 2018 - Evaluation by rolling deployment. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2018
Cancer research funding has an inherent bias that often excludes rare cancers, expert says
3 February 2018 - The biggest investor in cancer research in Australia needs to address an "inherent bias" in how ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2018
Standard deviation and standard error: interpretation, usage and reporting
5 February 2018 - Standard deviations and standard errors are reported routinely in statistical analyses, but the distinction between them is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Feb 2018
EU proposes joint studies to speed acceptance of new medicine
31 January 2018 - The European Commission proposed on Wednesday joint clinical assessments to determine whether approved new drugs and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jan 2018
Characteristics of interim publications of randomised clinical trials and comparison with final publications
23 January 2018 - Publication of interim results of randomised trials can be consequential, potentially undermining trial integrity by unblinding or ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2018
FDA Commissioner on new steps FDA is taking to enhance transparency of clinical trial information to support innovation and scientific inquiry related to new drugs
16 January 2018 - Scientific progress and new drug innovation don’t take place in a vacuum. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2018
Atezolizumab, pembrolizumab, nivolumab in urothelial carcinoma: studies of direct comparison are useful
4 January 2018 - Four dossier assessments involving comparisons between immunotherapies and chemotherapies for the same therapeutic indication in 2017/comparison ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jan 2018
German watchdog calls for direct comparison of cancer immunotherapies
16 January 2018 - Germany’s drug assessment body has criticized a lack of data directly comparing drugs in a promising ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2018
Finding RCTs of new drugs: searches in trial registries require specific adaptations
5 January 2018 - In their article in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Marco Knelangen, Elke Hausner, Sibylle Sturtz, and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Dec 2017
Many FDA approved cancer drugs might lack clinical benefit
21 December 2017 - New research shows that less than half of the randomised controlled trials that support the approval of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Dec 2017
Bringing early feasibility studies for medical devices back to the United States
12 December 2017 - Ten years ago, when medical device manufacturers wanted to gain early clinical experience with their new devices ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2017
Drug makers continue to owe FDA numerous clinical trials
7 December 2017 - Under various circumstances, the FDA may require a drug maker to run a post-marketing study, but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2017
FDA required studies of approved drugs make a big difference for public health
7 December 2017 - Drugs are approved by FDA based upon substantial evidence from clinical trials that the medicine will be ...