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Drugs & Clinical Trials | By April 01, 2008 | By Karen Vieira, MBA, PhD | 0 Comments
New Anti-Cancer Drug for Aggressive Brain Tumors
Researchers are constantly trying to find new drugs or forms of therapy that can be used to treat cancer. Quite often when a possible treatment is discovered, being allowed to test a drug or other experimental cancer treatment at a clinical level is difficult. For example, after an anti-carcinogenic drug has been thoroughly tested at the experimental level it is necessary to test it in humans to analyze factors such as the drug’s anti-tumor activity, its ability to interact with a specific target, and to discover which patients are more likely to benefit from the drug. These types of early clinical trials are the key in the successful implementation of effective anti-tumor drugs and therapies. Read more →
- The Reimbursement Crisis in Medicine - Are We Shooting Ourselves in the Foot?
- Drugs and Pharmacology, First Edition
- Give a Clinical Trial a Try: It’ll Probably Cost Nothing
In this era of declining reimbursements, I’ve been thinking a lot about socialized medicine and how physicians can stop the bleeding. It’s clear that reimbursements cannot go lower for many physicians. If they go lower lots of docs simply won’t be able to run their offices anymore. While... Read more →
Welcome to the first edition of Drugs and Pharmacology — a monthly blog carnival that aims to review posts “related to drugs — medicinal, recreational, interactional, personal, professional, or any other aspects.” Please remember to submit your blog entries using the online submission... Read more →
If you’re looking for a different approach to a mental health concern, a clinical trial may be a good fit for you. Clinical trials, where new drugs and treatments are tested, are an important step in the study and treatment of mental health disorders. At any given time, thousands of trials go... Read more →
Friday, October 10, 2008
- The Anti-Psychiatry Movement
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Vaccines - A Two-Edged Sword
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Woman Comparable to Men in Domestic Violence: Stereotypes and their Consequences
- God And Religion: Is It All In Our Heads?
- The Bipolar Trend
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Doesn't Mess Around
- The Implications of Implanted Chips
- The Science of Brain Freeze
- The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Illness
- Is War A Psychosis?
- Unhinging from Theory: Autism and Opinions
- Mind-Body: We Want Evidence, Don't We?
- Meditation for Troubled Minds: Can the Mind Heal the Mind?
- Encephalon, Thirty-Third Edition
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Usually It's Cheaper to Pay Than to Go To Court
- Are You Vegetarian? How Do You Get Enough Protein?
- Integrating Schizophrenia Management
- Health Care and Politics I - The Republicans
- Brain Blogging, Fortieth Edition
- China’s Tainted Reputation
- The Silent Epidemic of Health Illiteracy
- Managed Care Kills a Provider’s Reputation
- Writing Away Your Worries
- Sleep Deprivation, Behavior, and the Young
- Preventative Care in Medicine
- Cheating Husbands - What His Genes Tell Us
- Reduced Empathy Following Traumatic Brain Injury
- Craniosacral Therapy – Healing Through Touch
- Brain Blogging, Thirty-Ninth Edition
- Are Doctors Super Human?
- Taking Care of Those Who Take Care of Us
- Water - How Much is Too Much?
- Involving Physicians in Military Interrogations
- What Does Your iPod Say About You?
- HIPAA Doesn’t Exist For Doctors
- Is the Primary Care Physician Becoming Extinct?
- George Huntington and the Disease Bearing His Name
- Let's think about John McCain's plan from the prospective of a lower income indi...
- .Who is really paying health insurance aka desease care in America.
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- "Being vegetarian is also better for the environment" I am sure it is, how about...
- I belong to the PETA group, People eat tasty animals. :)...
- you people go ahead and eat your carrots, more meat for me. :)...
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- The medical tourist usually chooses to have the surgery or procedure done overse...
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- Links (between insomnia and other 'problems') are NOT causal correlates, they ar...
