Who Will Volunteer for Clinical Trials Now?
The erosion of trust will devastate drug trial recruitment....
12 March, 2025
Recruitment
Understanding motives behind participation in cancer clinical trials
A recent study of 978 cancer patients and their relatives uncovered reasons behind their willingness, or lack thereof, to participate in clinical research....
30 January, 2025
Young people are crucial to research — how can they be paid fairly?
Children and teenagers bring unique value to research as advisers and participants — raising ethical and practical issues about how best to compensate them....
20 January, 2025
Actionable Diversity Plans for Clinical Trial Recruitment and Retention
Diversity action plans—focused on enrolling representative numbers of participants in clinical trials from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic populations—are part of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance published in April 2022....
01 July, 2024
Mom And CCRP Identifies Must-Haves For Pediatric Trials
Both recruitment and retention can be improved by making small changes to techniques and implementing cost-effective methods to reduce barriers and make participants feel more included in the overall research process....
22 May, 2024
‘Other Duties as Assigned’: The Wide-Ranging Role of the CRC Professional
If “recruiting and screening patients who try new treatments and monitoring and reporting on patient progress” sounds like a reasonable, if skimpy, definition of the duties of a clinical research coordinator (CRC) at a clinical trial site, imagine the surprise of a newly minted CRC...
24 April, 2024
It’s Time to Give Patients a Seat at the Table
Clinical trials represent a critical path to innovative treatments, life-changing cures, and medical progress. But for all their scientific rigor, most trials fail to include one crucial element: input from the very people they aim to help....
24 April, 2024
Lyme disease vaccine study looking for participants at UW Health
UW Health is looking for 75 people to test a new Lyme disease vaccine that targets more strains of the tick-borne illness than a little-used shot taken off the market more than 20 years ago....
26 September, 2023
Trial participants are heroes, let’s treat them that way
Being a clinical trial participant, especially in an interventional trial, is a sacrifice of time and body and represents a true commitment on the part of the patient....
08 September, 2023
The case for loosening trial eligibility reins
Restrictive eligibility criteria has been a concern for many oncology researchers, who believe these trials should reflect a broader real-world population....
06 September, 2023
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