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Disclosing Financial Conflicts f Interest To Research …
Science Daily (press release)
senior author of a paper published in the August 27th issue of The New England Journal of Medicine and the deputy director for medicine at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins. The paper drew on five years of research from the Conflict of Interest Notification Study (CINS) a $3 million project led by Sugarman and funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. verall CINS gathered information from thousands of patients as well as many clinical trial investigators and those charged with the ethical oversight of research.
Nursing student hopes her research makes life better for sickle …
Indiana State University
Lufkin’s “classrooms” have included some of the most respected names in health care: The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Suburban Hospital in Bethesda and most recently the National Institutes of Health where she completed a research fellowship. Her research topic was “what sickle cell anemia patients want their providers and the public to know about living with sickle cell. Pain is the greatest concern for those with sickle cell according to interviews of patients Lufkin conducted during her 10-week fellowship at the Mark. Hatfield Clinical Research Center the nation’s largest hospital devoted entirely to clinical research. “The pain with sickle cell is very similar to post-operative pain or cancer pain. That’s something that many providers who aren’t as familiar with sickle cell may not know” said Lufkin whose study conducted via the center’s Social Work Department was funded by an NIH Intramural Research Training Award Fellowship. Because severe pain can strike at any time many patients seek treatment in hospital emergency rooms often asking for specific highly powerful medications.
Duke to begin $700M hospital expansion
WRAL.com
"This project is all about our patients faculty and staff and our missions of clinical care teaching and pursuing breakthrough research. "The project also will act as an economic driver for the region creating up to 1500 construction jobs and 1000 permanent health care positions officials said. The seven-story 267000-square-foot cancer center will consolidate outpatient cancer services and clinical research from across the campus into a patient-centered multidisciplinary center. It will adjoin to the Morris Cancer Clinic and will include 140 examination rooms 75 infusion stations a pharmacy and an outdoor garden terrace for chemotherapy patients. "Patients in North Carolina and elsewhere will have access to a center of excellence that combines the best in convenient multidisciplinary cancer care along with leading edge approaches to personalized treatment strategies" Dr. William Fulkerson Jr. senior vice president for clinical affairs for Duke Health said in a statement.
Dominion Clinical Research offers different approach to mental …
Midlothian Exchange
Yet Dominion Clinical Research a private outpatient clinical research facility located at 2820 Waterford Lake Dr. 202 is now attempting to lessen the burdens caused by the failing economy. Established in 2000 by board-certified adult and child psychiatrist Dr. Anne Fedyszen and her partner Laurie Burke DCR has continued to provide mental health services for Major Depressive Disorder and other mental health conditions through ongoing clinical research participation and customized private care practice.
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Disclosure of Financial Relationships to Participants in Clinical …
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription)
Potential Goals and Challenges of Disclosing Financial Relationships in Clinical Research. Promoting Informed Decision MakingDisclosures to research participants during the informed-consent process are meant to promote autonomous decision making. 789 What exactly constitutes an autonomous decision by the participant is a matter of debate but most experts describe it as a choice made after the person has gained a substantial understanding of the potential risks and benefits of enrollment. Studies have identified at least four major challenges to achieving a substantial understanding of financial relationships in clinical research. First there is wide variation in views and practice about what to tell participants about a researcher’s financial relationships.
Delays in vaccine trials inject flu questions
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
“Having the answers sooner rather than later will be better. But it’s understandable that we don’t have them. “Three of the five trials at Rochester Clinical Research in Irondequoit one of 15 testing sites across the country are under way. Another is scheduled to start in September and the last one in ctober. “There will be vaccine” said Patricia Larrabee president and chief executive officer of RCR “but it may not be in the quantity as early as we want it. “Health experts are watching how H1N1 behaves in other parts of the world in order to predict its effect here. “Things may not hit till January” Larrabee said.
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