Tag: clinical trials
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FDA Drafts Brain-Computer Device Regulatory Guidance
Food and Drug Administration is releasing for comment regulatory guidance for its review of implanted medical devices that connect human brains to computer systems.
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Blockchain Prototype Designed for Clinical Trial Data
A bioinformatics lab developed a prototype system for securely transmitting and storing clinical trial data with blockchain that protects against corrupting trial records.
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Targeted Chemo Seen Benefiting Breast Cancer Patients
A clinical trial shows a treatment combining an antibody and chemotherapy drug invokes a response and longer survival time in many patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.
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Trial Shows RNA Therapy Safe for Diabetes
Results from a clinical trial show a new drug with synthetic messenger RNA is safe for people with diabetes, and has the potential to promote new blood vessel growth.
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Asthma Drug Shown to Lower Airway Muscle Mass
An experimental drug is shown in a clinical trial and computer modeling to reduce the mass of smooth muscle tissue that builds up in airways of people with asthma.
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Insulin Delivered by Capsule, That’s the Good News
Before we start celebrating the end of injections, we need to deal with a more basic problem facing people with diabetes, namely the rapidly rising cost of insulin.
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Trial Testing Vaginal Ring, PrEP in Teens, Young Women
A clinical trial is underway testing use and preferences for drugs or a medical device to prevent HIV infection among young women and teenage girls in Africa.
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Wearables Assessed for Clinical Trial Value
An evaluation of wearable devices shows their value for collecting useful data in a clinical trial can vary depending on the purpose of the device.
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Natural Enemy Shown Effective Against Staph Bacteria
A clinical trial shows adding a treatment for drug-resistant infections based on the bacteria’s natural enemies kills more Staphylococcus aureus bacteria than standard antibiotics alone.
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Trial Assesses MRI-Guided Radiation Cancer Therapy
A clinical trial is underway to evaluate radiation therapy guided by magnetic resonance imaging, to help encourage its adoption in clinical cancer practice.