India finally agrees to trials

It finally happened to me.

It finally happened to me: I was sued for malpractice by the family of a patient who had died suddenly. My inner turmoil in the aftermath of this traumatic event affected me deeply. While I was an experienced family doctor dedicated to patient-centered medicine, the event challenged my customary approach to my patients. I share three vignettes from my practice that describe my inner dialogue bo...

Diet drug maker agrees to $3.75 billion settlement.

American Home Products, the maker of Pondim (fenfluramine) and Redux (dexfenfluramine), recently agreed to pay as much as $3.75 billion to people who took the diet drug cocktail called fen-phen or Redux, a settlement that attorneys called the largest ever involving a US pharmaceutical firm (fen-phen was a combination of fenfluramine and phentermine). The nationwide, class-action settlement is o...

An Introduction to the Field Trials Methodology

  The knowledge related to the methodology of the field trial study as a type of intervention studies, yet for many of our researchers is not fully understood. The aim of the current study was a better understanding of conducting this type of research. Field trial studies are done on healthy individuals and aim to prevent. These types of studies such as clinical trials are performed on both i...

Clinical Trials Registry--India: redefining the conduct of clinical trials.

Asia Pacific agrees health-financing plan.

1426 www.thelancet.com Vol 375 April 24, 2010 See Comment page 1417 When US President Barack Obama decided to cancel a much-anticipated visit to his strongest Asian Pacifi c allies and stay in Washington, DC, to push his health reform bill through US Congress, his excuse was probably the one thing that resonated most powerfully with his disappointed hosts. Health fi nancing is one of the bigges...