When sponsors develop drugs and devices specifically for women, they need to create clinical trials that are uniquely female-focused. From protocols and endpoints, to recruiting strategies and messaging, these trials have to take into account the unique needs, expectations and regulatory requirements of a totally...
Across the United States, Black women have a significantly higher chance than white women of dying from cervical cancer. A report from Human Rights Watch investigates the reasons why and finds that “neglect and exclusion” from the nation’s broken healthcare system are to blame....
Two early recipients of CAR T immunotherapy were free of a blood cancer nearly a decade after receiving the therapy....
The pandemic prompted clinical trial sponsors to adopt new methods and decentralized procedures that may increase diversity and inclusion in future trials....
A group of scientists who did more than perhaps any other to test new treatments for Covid, including establishing that the steroid dexamethasone can save lives, is now turning its focus to the rest of medicine....
More patients in rural areas across the nation could soon have increased access to vision-saving eye screenings based on a new multi-center clinical trial, led by an investigator at the University of Wisconsin Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences....
Betsy Nugent and Nasia Safdar are working together to advance the clinical trials enterprise at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Health, while building the new Wisconsin Medicine Institute for Clinical Trials....
University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers and their collaborators are making progress toward developing universal vaccines against some the planet’s most harmful pathogens, including the virus family responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic....
hough it might be easy to picture a scene out of “Jaws,” these sharks have arrived to help humans, not hunt them. In fact, the sharks will be integral to research focused on therapies for diseases such as cancer. ...
While electronic medical records clearly have a long list of benefits—they’re legible, portable, shareable and can contain real-time alerts for physicians—the field is still growing and evolving, and some challenges have emerged along the way....
