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Meta-analyses cagey about funding sources/affiliations, review finds

With meta-analyses exerting a growing influence on drug policy and prescribing decisions, it is imperative that these reviews provide high-quality, transparent and unbiased evidence. Yet funding sources and financial ties are rarely mentioned in this context.

Published
11 March 2011
From
Pharma Times
Clinical trials
AIDS Activists Call on Public to Support New FDA HIV Drug Approval Policy

The AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition (ATAC) is asking people to sign on to a letter in support of a proposed U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy that will hopefully make it easier for drugs to be approved for heavily treatment experienced people.

Published
23 February 2011
From
Poz
Ageing and HIV
Older adults often excluded from clinical trials

Older adults are a large and growing patient population but more than half of clinical trials exclude them based on age or age-related conditions, according to a study by the University of Michigan Health. It's a concern because doctors can't be certain clinical trial results apply to their older patients.

Published
02 February 2011
From
EurekAlert
Clinical trials
Sharing research data: a great day for public health

Today, the world of public health research changed for ever. Or so I hope. The institutions that fund most health research in developing countries (and a good deal of research in rich countries too) have finally launched an assault on Data Hugging Disorder. They are pushing the scientists they fund to put any data they collect in the shared scientific domain.

Published
10 January 2011
From
The Wisdom of Whores
New Survey Device Gets Better Information On Ethiopians' Sexual Behavior

Brown University sociologists have developed a device to gather more reliable data about risky sexual behavior among Ethiopian teenagers and young adults than conventional face-to-face interviews can produce. The device is simple, portable, low-cost, and low-tech.

Published
17 December 2010
From
Medical News Today
Circumcision
New report provides women's perspectives on medical male circumcision for HIV prevention

A new report features an unprecedented collection of voices from Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Uganda reflecting on what male circumcision for HIV prevention means for women. It highlights women's perspectives, advocacy priorities and recommendations on this new prevention strategy.

Published
14 December 2010
From
EurekaAlert
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Russia: "secrecy of diagnosis abolished as useless"

A Russian government decree has swept away confidentiality in clinical trials, preventing people with HIV from accessing treatment.

Published
16 November 2010
From
EATG
New and experimental HIV treatments
Protease inhibitor monotherapy in African setting results in viral load, but not CD4, failure in the short term

A study of protease inhibitor monotherapy in Africa has found that 25% fewer patients on monotherapy achieved an undetectable viral load than those on standard combination therapy.

Published
10 November 2010
By
Gus Cairns
Clinical trials
Hepatitis C researcher arrested on insider trading charges

A prominent French doctor has been arrested on criminal fraud charges that accused him of tipping off a hedge fund manager about setbacks in a clinical drug trial that had not yet been made public, federal authorities said Tuesday.

Published
03 November 2010
From
New York Times
Clinical trials
Guatemala calls US tests 'crime'

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom says the US committed "crimes against humanity" in a 1940s study infecting 700 Guatemalans with syphilis.

Published
01 October 2010
From
BBC Health
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