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FDA Sentinel Initiative Expands to Support Clinical Research

After eight years in development, FDA’s Sentinel system is poised to play a more visible role in assessing medical product efficacy, as well as safety. There are plans to expand it to gather information on the performance of medical products in real world settings,...

My Microbiome – and The Future of Clinical Research

In the past, research subjects like me would have had come to a major medical center to take part in a study - but increasingly, that's no longer the case. The science is coming to us. And increasingly, clinical care is also being delivered at a distance, making it...

Make journals report clinical trials properly

Science is in flux. The basics of a rigorous scientific method were worked out many years ago, but there is now growing concern about systematic structural flaws that undermine the integrity of published data: selective publication, inadequate descriptions of study...