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Improving clinical trials through patient experience

Drug Discovery World

Stitch Health is a London-based start-up, on a mission to improve clinical trials by measuring and surfacing each patient’s experience. million seed funding to create the definitive patient retention platform for clinical trials. Some patient withdrawals are unavoidable due to factors like disease progression or side effects.

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Benefits of Participating in Clinical Trials

Olympian Clinical Research

Clinical trials are essential for advancing medical knowledge and developing new treatments that can improve patient care and outcomes. Participating in a clinical trial is a significant decision that can have profound benefits, not only for the individual participant but also for future patients and the broader medical community.

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Vaccines and various response rates

Drug Discovery World

Dr Pollock is the Chief Investigator of the LEGACY03 clinical trial, a study aiming to investigate lymph nodes and vaccination responses across age groups. RA: Could you tell us about the LEGACY03 trial? This change in our ability to respond to vaccines also makes us vulnerable to infectious disease.

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“Nothing scares us” – Ukraine’s clinical research sector begins fearless recovery

Drug Discovery World

Following the news that the number of clinical trial recruiting sites in Ukraine has dropped by half since the Russian invasion, DDW’s Diana Spencer examines clinical trial data from analytics company Phesi and speaks to Dr Olena Karpenko , Clinical Research Director at Medical Center Ok!Clinic+ Ongoing clinical trials.

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NHS staff sign up to Covid-19 sniffer dog trial

The Pharma Data

NHS staff are taking part in a trial to see if dogs can sniff out Covid-19 – even in people who are asymptomatic. If the trial is successful, the dogs could be used at UK airports to screen people arriving from abroad. If the trial is successful, the dogs could be used at UK airports to screen people arriving from abroad.

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Behçet’s Disease: Diverse manifestations in both brain and body

On Medicine

Behçet’s disease is a rare multisystem vasculitic disorder that can affect any of the blood vessels of the body; signs and symptoms are diverse among individuals and range in severity, but often present as recurrent oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, or as complications involving the eyes.

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Deliberate Dysentery

Codon

Today, refined versions of these human challenge studies have become standard practice in testing vaccines for vector-borne diseases (e.g., yellow fever, malaria, and dengue), evaluating new drugs or treatments, and studying pathogenesis, the process by which a disease develops. Why are challenge trials becoming more popular?

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