My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
Public release date: 4-Apr-2008 Unless a researcher has stock ownership in a company whose drug is being tested, telling potential research volunteers about an investigator’s financial interests is unlikely to…
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study reviewing 75 group-randomized cancer trials over a five-year stretch shows that fewer than half of those studies used appropriate statistical methods to analyze the…
Public release date: 9-Mar-2008 The widely used synthetic progestin medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) decreased endothelial function in premenopausal women in a study done at the University of Oregon. The…
Public release date: 18-Mar-2008 Only two per cent of paediatric drug trials reported using independent safety monitoring committees that can help lead to the early detection of adverse drug…
Public release date: 8-Jan-2008 Researchers have developed a new method for presenting clinical trial survival data that includes data from all trial participants unlike the standard method, according to a…
Public release date: 11-Jan-2008 Recalling some of the great discoveries from research in general practice, Ian McWhinney, M.D., suggests journals need to develop standards that provide space for novel…
Public release date: 2-Jan-2008 Boston, MA— Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that vitamin D2 is equally as effective as vitamin D3 in maintaining 25-hydroxyvitamin D…
Public release date: 7-Jan-2008 Parkinson’s disease, the most common neurodegenerative movement disorder caused by aging, can also be caused by pesticides and other neurotoxins. A new study found strong…
Public Release: 5-Dec-2007 Pycnogenol® improved physical function by 52 percent GENEVA, Switzerland – Affecting more than 10 million Americans, Osteoarthritis of the knee (OA) is one of the five leading…
Public release date: 8-Nov-2007 MANHASSET, NY – A major component of green tea could prove the perfect elixir for severe sepsis, an abnormal immune system response to a bacterial infection.…
Public release date: 22-Oct-2007 Studies of inhaled corticosteroids, medications frequently prescribed for asthma and other respiratory problems, appear less likely to find adverse effects if they are funded by pharmaceutical…
Public release date: 27-Sep-2007 ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Most clinical trials for new diabetes drugs do not consider the impact medication will have on a patient’s quality of life or other…
Public release date: 28-Aug-2007 A study to be published in an upcoming edition of the Scandinavian Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology reveals that Pycnogenol® (pic-noj-en-all), pine bark extract from the…
Public release date: 29-Aug-2007 ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Data from a new Mayo Clinic (http://mayoclinic.edu) study suggest that dietary therapy using flaxseed can decrease hot flashes in postmenopausal women who do…
Public release date: 8-Jun-2007 The four-year clinical trial included more than one thousand women over the age of 55 in one of three supplement groups: 1) calcium (1400-1500mg) plus…
In head-to-head trials of two drugs, the one deemed better appears to depend largely on who is funding the study, according to an analysis of nearly 200 statin-drug comparisons carried…
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