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November 21, 2024: Are Pragmatic Trials Living Up to the Promise of Improving Representativeness?

Rethinking Clinical Trials

In a new commentary, members of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory’s Ethics and Regulatory Core explore the potential of pragmatic trials to improve demographic representativeness and health equity in clinical research. Representativeness in Pragmatic Clinical Trials,” was published online ahead of print in JAMA.

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July 23, 2024: Article From Ethics and Regulatory Core Highlights Key Challenges for Pragmatic Trials

Rethinking Clinical Trials

In an invited commentary published this month in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes , authors from the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory’s Ethics and Regulatory Core describe the recurring and emerging ethical issues in pragmatic clinical trials. Learn more about the Ethics and Regulatory Core.

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Grand Rounds December 13, 2024: Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring and Nurse Case Management in Black and Hispanic Patients With Stroke: A Randomized Clinical Trial (Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, FACP)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

This was a multisite, practice-based, comparative effectiveness randomized clinical trial conducted at six public hospitals and three academic medical centers in New York City. Sustainment can be an Achilles Heel for embedded trials, as programs that have been shown to be successful arent always covered by insurance.

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What to make of Eisai and Biogen’s latest Alzheimer’s drug data

Bio Pharma Dive

At a medical conference, the companies detailed clinical trial results that could help support approval of their drug, lecanemab. However, some doctors aren’t yet convinced the medicine’s risks are worth its potential benefits.

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Doctors Discover Needle Lodged in 80-Year-Old Woman’s Brain

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

An elderly woman in Russia’s Far East was revealed on Wednesday to have lived for 80 years with an inch-long needle in her brain, after doctors made the unexpected discovery during a CT scan. Doctors believe the woman was the victim of a failed infanticide carried out by her parents, and said they would not […]

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Equal Parts Caregiver and Advocate: Clinical Trials from the Caregiver’s Point of View

Camargo

In this Q&A, Andrea discusses their experience, especially as it relates to the two clinical trials Tom participated in. We wanted to participate in a clinical trial. But our original doctor doesn’t work with clinical trials—it’s just not his thing. You aren’t thinking about treatments and trials.

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August 8, 2024: FDA Commissioner and NIH Director Share Thoughts on the Future of Pragmatic Clinical Trials

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Speaking at the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory’s 2024 Annual Steering Committee Meeting in May, Commissioner of Food and Drugs Robert Califf and NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli discussed the intersection of pragmatic research and national health priorities. It is imperative to get a learning health system in progress,” she said.