Tag: Clinical Trials
Open-Label Placebos Seem to Have Positive Clinical Effect
Review including data from five trials shows positive effect of non-deceptive placebos
Conventional Trials Can’t Detect Heterogeneity in BP Tx Effects
Clinically important heterogeneity in intensive BP tx effect can be ID'd in sequential randomization trials
Many Spinal Manipulation Trials Don’t Report Adverse Events
Significant increase in reporting of adverse events post-CONSORT statement of 2010
Cancer Patients Have Unrealistic Hopes Entering Clinical Trials
Study finding is a red flag, researcher says
Minority of Surgical Studies Include Men, Women Equally
About one-third of articles analyze data by sex; fewer include discussion of sex-based results
Many Clinical Trials Are Not Listed in Data-Sharing Repository
Fifty-three percent of randomized clinical trials were listed at Clinical Study Data Request website
Many Americans Have Reservations About Clinical Trials
Only 40 percent had favorable view of these studies, but number rose when they received more info
ASCO: Phase I Cancer Drug Trials Benefit From Precision Medicine
Better outcomes for patients whose treatment is selected based on molecular characteristics of tumor
Analytics Approach Could Improve Chemo Combinations
Two techniques indicate that models could improve efficacy of regimens for testing in phase III trials
Most Lung Cancer-Specific Tweets Relate to Support, Prevention
<20 percent of tweets about clinical trials; only one tweet linked to a patient recruitment website
