With long-lasting effects on medical science, reports Aaron van Dorn, the COVID-19 pandemic has created massive disruptions to clinical trial research across the world. As in other aspects of life, the virus has severely affected the ability to conduct trials in safe...
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Can Australia Emerge as a Global Medical Research Leader?
Australia is positioned to thrive as a global hub of medical research, thanks to the competent handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, a top rated health system, world class research talent, and associated infrastructure. Health Minister Greg Hunt seeks to capitalize on...
Nigeria Approves Funding for Six Medical Simulation, Research & Training Facilities
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari approved funding for six Medical Simulation, Research and Training Facilities in Colleges of Medicine through what is known in the most populated and richest African economy as a TETFund. Mrs. Ngoba Briggs, Director of Public...
Twitter, Kardashians, and the Democratization of Clinical Debate
Making clear, concise and accessible—unbiased-- information available to all represents the spirit and intent of knowledge democratization and this aligns well with the mission of TrialSite News. Recently, one of the country's preeminent physicians used a...
Medical Research and Development Not Keeping Up With Nation’s Needs
While growth in spending in 2018 over the six-year reporting period is a positive sign, the size of our investment in life-saving research is dwarfed by the weight of disease burden. Total U.S. investment in medical and health research and development (R&D) grew...
Korea Medical Research Scandal—How far Will Parents Go for Their Children’s ‘Success’?
The medical research community in Korea was shaken up as Cho Kuk was appointed as minister of justice, however his daughter was listed as a lead author of a pathology paper published in the Korean Journal of Pathology. This occurred after she worked as a high school...
University of Virginia Leads Statewide Collaboration Effort to Broaden Access to Medical Research Data
The National Science Foundation will award $2.5 million into the University of Virginia to form the Virginia Assuring Controls Research Data (ACCORD), a collaborative effort of the University of Virginia (UVA) and University of Virginia’s College at Wise, leading a...
The Keto Diet: Reasonable Fad or Fiction?
Nicolas Tzenios, creator of “KetoTv” and Chairman of TRCGEN+ medical research hub, has signed on to conduct a clinical trial with KGK Science Inc. He hopes to prove that elevated glucose, rather than fat, is to blame for the onset of cardiovascular and...
MCO Invests $100 Million into Washington University St. Louis Research
Market leading Managed Care Organization (MCO) Centene will award $100 million to Washington University St. Louis. The award will be allocated to the university’s School of Medicine for research into Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, diabetes and obesity. Centene is...
Investment in Medical Infrastructure Bolstering China’s World Position
The South China Morning Post reports that Mainland China has devoted 2.13 percent of its world’s second largest GDP to research and development in 2017—up from .8 percent in 1999. Hong Kong specifically is noticing a marked improvement in facilities and research on...
European Entrepreneurs Spending Billions of Euros on Medical Research
As reported in the Brussel Times by Alan Hope, Urbain Vandeurzen, one of Belgium’s leading business entrepreneurs, has committed to spending €200 million through one of his companies to pay for research into Alzheimer’s disease. Vandeurzen was a member of the board of...
Why Potential Subject Medical Records in Clinical Trials are Important
A number of years ago I was sent to co-monitor with several monitors in order to meet an interim safety analysis. My first question was “where are the medical records? One of the monitors laughed and said, “we’re in Any town, USA and they never have medical records...
Scripps “All of Us” Research Program Targets Acceleration of Health Research and Medical Breakthroughs
Watch the KUSI video about the work San Diego-based Scipps is doing around acceleration of research breakthroughs via the “All of us” Research program.
Marijuana as a Cancer Treatment Shows Promise but Political Challenges Abound
Big things are happening in the legal-marijuana landscape according to Sean Williams writing for Motley Fool. In the U.S., the Republican-leaning state of Oklahoma voted to approve a medicinal-cannabis measure on its ballot in June, becoming state number 30 to pass...
Nobel Laureate Randy W. Schekman to Build Clinical Laboratory in Shenzhen China
Randy W. Schekman, a 2013 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, announced Tuesday that he, along with two Chinese hospitals, would build a medical laboratory in the city of Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province. The Randy Schekman International Joint...
Why Potential Subject Medical Records in Clinical Trials are Important
A number of years ago I was sent to co-monitor with several monitors in order to meet an interim safety analysis. My first question was “where are the medical records? One of the monitors laughed and said, “we’re in Any town, USA and they never have medical records...
Morehouse School of Medicine Partners With NIH for the “All of Us” Research Program
Morehouse School of Medicine partners with National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the “All of Us” Research program. View article here