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| Articles about Clinical Trials |
| Diabetes and Clinical Trials | | 2008-02-18 12:02:40 | | If you are diabetic, you may be interested in participating in a clinical trial. People participate in clinical trials for a variety of reasons. Clinical trials are held after a drug is developed and after it meets approval from the Food and Drug Administration for clinical trial, but before it is released for public consumption.
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| | MESOTHELIOMA CLINICAL TRIALS | | 2008-02-05 19:32:00 | | Clinical trials are studies of new drugs to test their effectiveness and safety on humans. There are Clinical trials in progress for drugs for a wide range of illnesses, including mesothelioma. There are benefits and pitfalls to participating in such trails and it is vital that you understand these beforehand. For example, you may need to travel further to be treated at a larger cancer center for even just your routine tests and treatments. However, you will be treated by the best doctors who are considered experts in their field, usually at the best facilities. You should also consider the risk that whilst the drug you are using may eventually be proved to be a wonder drug it could also be proved to be less effective than the current available treatments.The criteria for eligibility for clinical trials varies. There are some trials which require that you have had no treatment prior to starting and others that will only allow participation after other treatments have failed. Your docto... | | By: Mesothelioma Treatment Info | | |
| | The Essence of Statistics in Clinical Trials | | 2007-05-11 11:00:00 | | Topics expected to be covered include: Motivation, need for statistics; Populations and Samples; Uncertainty and Variability; Distributions; Types of Data; Summarising Data (mean, median, standard deviation, standard errors, proportions,) Hypothesis Testing; Type 1 and Type 2 error; P values; Confidence intervals; Superiority, Non-Inferiority; Sample Size Determination (Power, Delta); Avoiding Bias – Randomisation and Blinding; Populations – Safety, ITT, PP; Basic Statistical Methods: T-test, chi-square test ;Covariates and Subgroups; Comparing Treatments (differences in means, odds ratios, relative risk, absolute risk difference etc); More sophisticated statistical methods (ANCOVA, logistic regression, )... | | By: Mums in Science | | |
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