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Clinical Trials
Medical Researchers Baffled by Trump Administration’s Stop Work Order for Clinical Trial System: ‘A Giant Step Backwards’
May 12, 2025 | A system that ensures efficiency for clinical trials has been halted by administration cuts.
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How Halt in Funding Hurts Efforts to Ensure Safety of Patients in Medical Research
May 5, 2025 | Stop-work order disrupts system that facilitates oversight of studies happening at multiple sites.
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NIH Spent $8.1B for Phased Clinical Trials of Drugs Approved 2010-19, ~10% of Reported Industry Spending
July 21, 2023 | Bentley University study further describes public and private sector investments in pharmaceutical innovation.
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NIH Toughens Enforcement of Delayed Clinical Trials Reporting
June 5, 2023 | Agency says it has brought more than 200 tardy investigators into compliance since July 2022.
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Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
January 17, 2023 | Diversifying clinical trials could build trust in new treatments among Black people and their physicians.
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More Data Needed
July 7, 2022 | Study shows females underrepresented in key disease clinical trials.
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The Essentials of Single IRB Review
May 6, 2022 | Facilitating more than 300 COVID-19-related multisite studies, SMART IRB has become an integral part of the fabric of collaborative research across the U.S.
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Five Questions with Hanny Al-Samkari
March 7, 2022 | A classical hematologist discusses how our training programs have impacted his career.
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