Insights: Clinical Trials May Not Represent Population
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The randomized clinical trial, widely considered the most reliable biomedical research method, can have significant drawbacks, a new study suggests.
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Sterile statistics don't shield a therapist from a sense of failure.
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Description: A new study finds that deaths in cancer drug trials have declined ten-fold, thanks to the development of drugs that are better targeted at the tumors themselves.
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MONDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer treatment trials that are funded by drug companies are more likely to show positive results than studies sponsored by other sources, new research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Roughly half of adults who use herbal supplements do not use them in accordance with "evidence-based" indications, U.S. researchers report.
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Web data that showed a risk for a diabetes drug is likely to spur more efforts to publicly disclose drug study results.
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Faced with weak development pipelines that are putting a drag on stock prices, drug manufacturers are retooling the decades-old system of clinical trials to make it faster and cheaper.
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Concern over antidepressants is becoming the catalyst for reform of clinical trial reporting.
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New research indicates that few high-risk women are achieving the optimal cholesterol levels set forth in recent guidelines by the American Heart Association (AHA). Moreover, only about one third of eligible women are receiving cholesterol-lowering drugs.
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Many clinical cancer trials are not published in order to keep industry secrets. A British cancer research group calls for all studies to be published -- even those with marginal results -- so doctors are not misled.
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Scientists are conducting thousands of medical experiments that can offer tantalizing hope to the ill, but tracking them down and getting enrolled can be incredibly difficult.    It might get easier, thanks to a growing push by doctors and lawmakers to force drug companies to list on a national registry every study they conduct...
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A growing number of children are taking combinations of powerful medications, but there is little evidence to justify the multiplication.
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While researchers plan to look at the use of all NSAIDs in clinical trials, people shouldn&#39;t take high doses or for too long. By Amanda Gardner.
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Exploring the reasons people swear by treatments that have no scientific evidence backing them.
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The American Medical Association is concerned, but says more research is needed before a definitive statement can be made.
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Patients in trials of drug treatments are being left in the lurch when the research finishes, doctors say.
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Doctors are missing key information they need to make decisions for cancer patients because some drug companies are not publishing clinical trials.