Clinical trial

Unituxin (dinutuximab) Product Summary • Product description - name, strength and form: Unituxin 3.5 mg/mL concentrate for solution for infusion. • Route of administration: intravenous infusion • Dinutuximab is indicated to treat high-risk neuroblastoma in people aged 12months-17 years, who have received induction chemotherapy previously and achieved a minimum of a partial response, followed by myeloblative therapy and autologous stem cell transplantation. • Mechanism of action drug…

assisting them to select from options that already exist. The agency did not think about what the next step after accomplishing the creation of the drug and the approval of the FDA. Doug Reynolds and Becky teamed up because of her mastery in leading clinical trials and reacting to FDA request (Johnston, and Marshall, 2009), needed to move rapidly in making a sales…

the use of placebos in research became indispensable. The placebo effect was held in low regards for many years among scientist. Feelings are mixed, among conventional medical practices despite the huge amount of evidence that placebos do help improve medical conditions the government remains reluctant to approve them for anything more than medical research. The harnessing of the placebo effect event has great significance in the medical world. Not only does it exemplify the “Mind over matter”…

Liz Canner is a filmmaker concerned with revealing the role of pharmaceutical companies in constructing a false disorder against which women can measure the status of their sexual lives. For nine years, Canner follows the company Vivas and their attempt to get a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that combats the newly-labeled Female Sexual Dysfunction. She reveals pharmaceutical interests and the way they are intertwined in the public’s perception of healthy and “normal”.…

As a child, whenever you got hurt, did your mom kiss your boo-boos? You probably felt better afterward, knowing that “Mommy” took the pain away. What you experienced is known as the placebo effect. A placebo, your mom’s kisses, is fake medicine or anything that has no therapeutic value. The effect itself is any reaction that is the consequence of administering the placebo. So when your mom kissed your sore bruises, she tricked you into thinking that your injuries were being healed. Resulting of…

The drug companies’ journey to search for a drug to cure Female Sexual Dysfunction started after the development of Viagra for men. The drug companies were not even aware of sexual dysfunction for females until this point. Despite not knowing whether FSD was a real disease, drug companies started developing a “cure” for this new phenomenon. The documentary had various sex experts and medical professionals describing the processes of developing drugs. There needs to be an actual disease before…

Brave New World, known to be one of Aldous Huxley's works, is a dystopian novel that's focused around a dull, futuristic society. The novel enhances genetically engineered people and subliminal messages set into people to divide people into different castes. In this world, the castes are divided into Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons, where the lower castes are modified to be more deformed and less intelligent. In this sense, the people are normalized into believing that things are…

competent healthcare professionals who are prepared to address clinical challenges1. The iSAP scenario provided the opportunity to develop a Clinical Action Plan (CAP) to identify client needs and discuss professional behaviours of clinician’s involved affecting the quality of healthcare received. An expert CAP was then released identifying the main issues to be considered. This report will compare and contrast these two reports to improve my clinical practice. Rationale The CAP I completed for…

Mental health is a state of wellbeing where every individual realises their potential, the ability to cope with the stress of life and can work productively (Who, 2016). In Australia headspace is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation designed to provide early intervention providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds (Headspace, 2016). This has prompted Professor Anthony Jorm to write for The Conversation, Is headspace really improving young people mental health?…

Campbell River and Nanaimo, it is clear that Telehealth in these locations is not being used to its maximum potential. This triggered the research question, “What do Island Health programs and providers think about Telehealth and how can we increase its clinical adoption?” In order to find this answer we studied the results from a past Telehealth survey titled “Telehealth Provider Survey: How are we doing?” distributed in December 2014 and January 2015. This voluntary survey was distributed to…