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09 August 2010
Our quality assurance officer in Europe, Elizabeth Atkin , and I attended the MHRA conference – GCP for Clinical Laboratories – Clinical Pursuits in York, England, at the beginning of the year. The various sessions throughout the day provided comprehensive overviews of how the clinical trials ...
22 July 2010
Last month, the prominent and pioneering anaesthesiologist Scott Reuben , chief of acute pain at Baystate Medical Centre , was sentenced to six months in prison for falsifying the data in, or entirely inventing, dozens of clinical trials. In the end, what caught Reuben was an audit of two papers ...
16 June 2010
The recent condemnation by Charles River Laboratories ' largest shareholder of that company's proposed acquisition of the leading Chinese CRO, WuXi PharmaTech , raised questions about whether companies are being too optimistic about the potential of China as a location for clinical research and the ...
03 June 2010
IQWiG , the German health technology assessment institute, has renewed its call for legislation to make the prospective registration of clinical trials mandatory and to compel trial sponsors to publish the full results of all trials in a results database. The demand comes in a new study, published ...
10 May 2010
A proverb attributed to the Chinese philosopher Lao Tsu says: give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. That sentiment could well be applied today to the provision of medicines for diseases that predominantly affect resource-poor countries, ...
30 March 2010
Inflammatory bowel disease is a term used to cover two specific conditions that are both chronic diseases that affect the gastrointestinal tract – Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. The main difference between them is the area of the gut that they affect. In Crohn's disease, the inflammation ...
 
 
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