Good News on Clinical Trials: Positive Results Plummeting
This is good for science and good for patients. It saves repeating a trial or patients taking medication that they may or may not need.
—Veronica Irvin, assistant public health professor at Oregon State University, as quoted in The Oregonian about a study she was lead author of concerning how the percentage of clinical trials with positive results has plummeted since federal regulators established new rules requiring greater transparency
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Quoted from ACRP Wire. Oregonian article here.
Image Credit: Kirk Livingston
Fabulous photo. I own one of those hands myself, but so many together…I’m jealous. (K.)
memadtwo
August 21, 2015 at 7:05 am
Thanks, Kerfe. That particular work of art really stuck in my brainpan.
kirkistan
August 21, 2015 at 8:15 am
Now I’m thinking I need to incorporate it somehow into a still life. I’ll have to work on that. It needs the right companions.
memadtwo
August 21, 2015 at 1:40 pm