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Insufficient training hammers your growth in Clinical Research

Inappropriate & Insufficient training at Entry level hammers your growth in Clinical Research

Clinical Research means that the research you are doing is very important and responsible. Let me clarify here that in Clinical Research, you work only on human subjects — these may be healthy volunteers or patients. As you are not dealing with any kind of animal experimentation, human life becomes even more important during the research process. You should be extremely careful about a drug’s safety and efficacy profile. This highlights the importance of clinical research training, as it prepares …

Diabetic trials: Important Thing to remember

Diabetes, being a metabolic disorder, requires diet and lifestyle modifications. This means that patients should follow a diet with limited calories, which is easy to digest and releases less glucose into the body. The pharmaceutical industry has made tremendous efforts in developing diabetic drugs to help patients maintain normal blood sugar levels. These drugs undergo various diabetic trials to determine their effectiveness in controlling the disease. It is also important for patients to understand their responsibilities during these trials. Below, …

Importance of Placebos in Clinical Trials

A placebo is a substance that appears to be a medical intervention but is not in reality. It does not contain any active ingredients and has no real effect on human health. Placebos can come as pills, injections, or other types of fake treatments. Sham interventions like mock electrical stimulation, simulated surgical procedures, and acupuncture needles are also considered placebos. Among these, injections tend to be more effective than pills, and sham surgery is the most powerful. Enrolling in a …

Clinical Trials for Diabetes and Growth Opportunities

Clinical Trials for Diabetes and Growth Opportunities Diabetes is a metabolic disorder that deals with increase in Blood Sugar levels and Hba1C levels. As one grows in age, people tend to have diabetes and this could be due to increased levels of body weight, BMI and fat disposition. Diabetic individuals usually have following symptoms Increase Urination Increased thirst Weight gain Increased Food Intake Fatigue Blurred vision Poor Muscle Strength Erectile Dysfunction PCOD Diabetes could be Type I and Type II …

Drug Development challenges and growth of Clinical trial Industry

Drug Development challenges and growth of Clinical trial Industry. Drug development is an important step that consists and preclinical and clinical development. Preclinical includes toxicology and animal pharmacology studies. Once Preclinical is over, clinical phase starts with phase I, Phase II, Phase III studies and Phase IV studies. The drug get marketing approval after Phase III studies are over. The drug development under goes various kind of challenges like in phase III study how many patients to be involved, what …

Life Sciences in Clinical Research: An Important Decision

Life science deals with the science of living organisms, which includes research activities related to them. During a life sciences course, you study subjects like Physiology, Pathology, Histology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Biophysics, Biotechnology, and more. These subjects are also taught in MBBS, BDS, and BAMS programs. With this foundation, pursuing a career in clinical research becomes a promising option, as it allows you to apply your knowledge to real-world medical and scientific studies. Clinical research is a science that deals with …

Important points for Sponsors to have meaningful relations with Site

Important points for Sponsors to have meaningful relations with Site Sponsor can create of positive relationship with site and that from the onset itself. This may include study design decisions and execution decision that reduces operational hiccups, prevent protocol amendments and decreases burden in particular on site. To make efficient trials, sponsor should aim for building good relationships with investigators to collaborate. Although starting and then nurturing Sponsor Site relationship can be difficult assignment because of increased competition. The important …

The rapid growth of Clinical trial for Covid 19

The rapid growth of Clinical trial for Covid 19 Clinical trials have always been proven a boon for good human health. For several years it has been conducted according to the standard procedures but COVID-19 acted as a catalyst and induced changes in clinical trials. There were hundreds of trials prior to the pandemic which came to hold while many new trials have been launched. Among the new clinical trials, most of the trials are for the effective treatment and …

Scope of Biotech in Clinical Research

Scope of Biotech in Clinical Research Biotech is a branch of Life Sciences that deals with new research opportunities and research products. Some of the products lead to clinical development. Clinical drug development requires various steps from Phase I to Phase IV to come to the market. These different phases of clinical trials are very expensive to Sponsor and there is tremendous pressure to be quick, less expensive and of course less costly also. Sponsor employs various strategies for the …

Opportunity for Young Clinical Researchers 2022

DIVERSITY IN CLINICAL RESEARCH: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG CLINICAL RESEARCHERS

DIVERSITY IN CLINICAL RESEARCH: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG CLINICAL RESEARCHERS. The COVID 19 pandemic has given lots of opportunities to think of Clinical research. The way clinical research is conducted, how patients are recruited and how data is analyzed, all has changed over last two years. As patients started restricting their movement so it has becomes all the more critical to enroll patients and retain patient in the clinical trial. In addition to recruitment of patients, it is all …

Improving Clinical Data: An important Step in Clinical Research

Improving Clinical Data: An important Step in Clinical Research Clinical Research is an important field, where in Researchers work on various new drug molecules and establishes its efficacy and safety. The major point to note here is that for efficacy and safety parameters data must be accurate and clean. If the data is not validated and accurate then it may have false results. Improving study data is critical and it should be done very carefully. The methods to do data …

The importance of clinical trial

The importance of clinical trial Every medicine we’ve ever taken or the diagnostic systems we’ve used are available to us only because of clinical research and clinical trials are the key tool of the research. Clinical trials are the core component of medical advances and patient care. These helps in discovering new treatments and new medical equipment to detect, diagnose and reduce developing diseases any further. The clinical trials are the important steps in the FDA drug approval and provide …

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