Randomized controlled trial

As the use of placebos increases, so does the debate over the ethicality of switching oblivious patients’ medications with placebos. A wide variety of doctors believe the switch is completely ethical and helpful, especially when confronting the opioid epidemic, while others claim “it is unethical to deceive patients by prescribing fake treatments,” (Marchant) especially when it can negatively impact a doctor-patient relationship if the patient is unaware. When my mother’s friend a simple,…

The Scopes Trial of 1925 shed light on teaching restrictions in a Tennessee high school. The trial symbolizes the conflict between science and theology while also leading to the repeal of the Tennessee state law which made the teaching of evolution illegal in schools (“The Scopes Trial”). This conflict between religion and science exists as a recurring controversy in not only history but in Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi. In the first part of the novel, Piscine Patel, the protagonist, shares his…

The Scopes trial took place in Tennessee centered around a teacher named John Scopes, who was arrested for violating a state law that prohibited the teaching of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. The trial immediately attracted two different groups to the case, the Fundamentalist Christians and the religious modernists. The tension was already growing between these two trending groups in America and the Scopes trial was one of the cases that brought this tension to the spotlight. During this…

Clinical Trial Team Structure Strategies Demands of industry and regulators for an improved clinical research landscape include quality by design concepts and increased efficiencies. Teams developing clinical research trials must be strategic to meet these demands and discover future innovations. Team structure must adapt to successfully implement a risk-based approach to trial execution. Team structures should become flexible and collaborative. Additional roles must be included on a…

First CLAS Standard selected: Which standard have you selected? What is the definition of the standard in your own words? What is the purpose of the standard, what does it do, how does it promote culturally and linguistically appropriate services, etc.? The first standard I have chosen is providing effective, equitable, understandable and respectful quality care and services that are responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and practices, preferred languages, health literacy and other…

manufacturing standards of the drug, there is also the general population healthcare requisite which needs to be met with the limited resources and technology available. For a new drug to reach the market, it takes more than a decade and several tests and trials that the FDA needs to clear. The information for the pre-clinical testing and the new molecular entity (NME) is submitted by a New Investigational Drug (IND) document to the FDA and if approved, it moves to the clinical phases. There…

The Scopes “Monkey Trial” was one of the most famous battles in history between evolution and creationism. After the Butler Act was passed, which banned the teaching of evolution, The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced it would defend anyone who challenged it. John Thomas Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 for violating Tennessee's Butler Act. This case pitted two titans against each other, William Jennings Bryan, a former presidential…

Master’s degree in Clinical Trial. I became interested in Clinical Trials after noticing the importance of clinical research. The initial interest developed when I started working at clinical research organization at the administration office. Many new things I got to know from the first months of working there. I became motivated from reading articles and learning new things from my colleagues. We are in an era of specialty pharmaceuticals – new drugs and clinical trials have not only…

Introduction Due to the complex nature of the needs of the elderly in the emergency room setting, there has been a movement to identify such high-risk patients through the initial triage in the emergency room. One such example is the Identification of Seniors At Risk (ISAR). The ISAR is used as a screening tool to expeditiously identify patients 65 years and older who are at risk for adverse outcomes while in emergency room setting as well as post–ED visit. The tool includes a six validated…

John Rosa claims that the title of Local Story comes from the idea that the book is an instance of “talking story” about a local story, using this style of oral transmission in written form to convey to the reader the contents of the book. This is not a book specifically about the Massie-Kahahawai case specifically, but about the effect which this case had according to the author, a look into the formation of a local identity that brought together people of different ethnicities into one…