The News Review:
- Applying Clinical Findings to the Practice of Medicine
- Cardio Care Guidelines Backed by Weak Evidence
- AstraZeneca’s Sex-for-Studies Seroquel Scandal: Did Research Chief …
- Crescendo(tm) the Clinical and Translational Research Exchange …
Applying Clinical Findings to the Practice of Medicine
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Two awards are named for the sorority national past presidents who were instrumental in the creation of the awards: Elizabeth Winston Lanier and Ann Doner Vaughn. The third is known as the Young Investigator Award. The fourth award also providing $20000 is the REF Clinical Research Award. Established in 1995 the award recognizes outstanding clinical research related directly to musculoskeletal disease or injury. Torn rotator cuffsThe 2009 Young Investigator Award given to outstanding authors who are under 40 years of age or no more than seven years beyond training was presented to Washington University researcher Stavros Thomopoulos Ph.
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Cardio Care Guidelines Backed by Weak Evidence
MedPage Today NJ -
Point out that the researchers called for increased funding for clinical research especially for comparative effectiveness trials. Among guidelines for specific diseases intervention and diagnostic techniques only 9. 4% of recommendations were based on conclusive data from multiple randomized trials — the highest level of evidence. The findings were reported in the Feb. 25 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association by Pierluigi Tricoci M.
AstraZeneca’s Sex-for-Studies Seroquel Scandal: Did Research Chief …
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But if you can’t be bothered to read it here’s a digest:MacFadden became involved in a sexual relationship with an (Institute of Psychiatry) researcher who as well as being involved in other Seroquel-related projects participated in the clinical research and abstract preparation relating to the effectiveness of Seroquel for use in the treatment of schizophrenia. Their affair lasted from 2002 to 2006. Sometime during 2004 while collaborating with Parexel and while still involved in a sexual relationship with the IP researcher MacFadden became involved in a sexual relationship with the Parexel Program Manager responsible for AstraZeneca. The nature of their communications suggest a level of control and dependence between Macfadden and these women. The IP researcher suggested that Macfadden would ‘punish’ her if she even looked at studies that were favorable to Seroquel’s competitors.
Crescendo(tm) the Clinical and Translational Research Exchange …
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Crescendo services fall into three major categories: 1. Support for Multi-Center Clinical Trials2. Establishment of Metrics & Benchmarks for Clinical Research perations3. Creation & Utilization of Research RegistriesSupport for Multi-Center Clinical TrialsServices in this category provide the infrastructure to easily launch highly secure often transitory.
