We have all suffered the past few months social distancing as well as making sure to keep our masks on. Without it, we would probably be in a worse situation than we […]
How far is too far when urgently developing a vaccine.
Hundreds and thousands of researchers are desperately trying to find a vaccine to Covid-19 and currently only 37 are in the testing stage. While 91 are in the preclinical phase. The question […]
Does the knowledge gained from a clinical trial answer the question of what is best for a patient?
Evidence-Based Medicine Defined as “an optimal method for developing and describing population-based medical evidence,” evidence based medicine (EBM) “attempts to describe a clinical practice centered on evidence derived from clinical studies,” EBM […]
The Risk of Contracting
Whenever we ask someone else to take responsibility for something on our behalf, we take certain risks. When using a CRO, what is a risk that you could anticipate and how would […]
Criticism of the FDA
The FDA has been accused of being unduly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. Does regulation cause higher drug prices? Who is at fault when an unsafe product reaches the market? The FDA […]
How would you accelerate the preclinical, nonclinical, and clinical testing to get a drug on the market faster?
Pharmaceutical companies test thousands of compounds on the bench before they get a potential candidate for a blockbuster drug which generates more than $1 billion in revenue annually and recovers the company’s […]
What do you perceive to be an important ethical issue in clinical research today? Why is it an ethical issue?
The Most Important Ethical Issue? Many issues in clinical research are debated as ethical issues. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center describes seven main principles as guiding the conduct of ethical […]