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Should Medical Researchers Share Their Results With Volunteers In…
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Jun 7, 2008
A new review of the issue published recently in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine suggests that participants’ desire to know the results of studies outweighs concerns by some bioethicists about the potential negative psychological consequences of sharing some results. Even when it’s bad news most study volunteers want to know. So should all medical researchers make an effort to communicate about their results with the volunteers who are so vital to their research? If they try to do so what hurdles — ethical privacy-related financial or logistical — might complicate their efforts? Could sharing clinical research results with some volunteers actually upset them?Such questions are addressed in the new paper which was written by University of Michigan medical student David Shalowitz and Franklin Miller Ph. of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. The research was funded by a grant from the U-M President’s Initiative for Ethics in Public Life. The paper reviews the landscape of knowledge on this issue including commentaries on the potential positive and negative impacts of sharing results and data from studies that evaluated the desires and reactions of research volunteers in specific clinical trials.
Falls hospital credits center with drop in heart deaths
Buffalo News – Jun 7, 2008
“It might be in the water; it might be in the air. That’s our challenge — to find out. ” Brent Williams a student in epidemiology at the University at Buffalo will continue to conduct clinical research at the heart center for two years working with the hospital and the university. His research is being funded by a $42000 grant from the American Heart Association’s founders affiliate research committee. The technology is also being funded by a $473707 grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration. Merhige said the medical center has made a healthy recovery from near death five years ago. In 2002 the hospital was suffering from two major ailments.
Gum Care Helps Control Type 2 Diabetes and Its Complications
Washington Post – Jun 7, 2008
“Given the numerous medical studies showing that good glycemic control results in reduced development and progression of diabetes complications we believe there is the potential that periodontal treatment can provide an increment in diabetes control and subsequently a reduction in the risk for diabetes complications” he said. Intensive periodontitis intervention for example can significantly lower one’s levels of A1C a measure of long-term glucose control. “We have found evidence that the severity of periodontal disease is associated with higher levels of insulin resistance often a precursor of type 2 diabetes as well as with higher levels of A1C” dentist Maria E. Ryan director of clinical research at the Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine in New York said in a prepared statement. Periodontal or gum disease is an infection and chronic inflammatory disease of the tissues surrounding and supporting the teeth. As it is painless most people don’t know they have it yet it is a major cause of tooth loss in adults. Among the studies to be discussed linking gum disease and diabetes are:A 1988-1994 U.
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