Updates SCTS: Clinical Research and the Public: If Not Them, Who?

"If not us, who? If not now, when?".

The experiences of people who quit khat and the health care professionals who support them

Background: This study aimed to explore the barriers and enablers to quitting khat from the perspective ofusers and the barriers and enablers to supporting users to quit from the perspective of healthcareprofessionals (HCPs).Methods: The present qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interview...

Stop-smoking medications: who uses them, who misuses them, and who is misinformed about them?

This study assessed smokers' beliefs about nicotine and the safety of nicotine medications and examined how these beliefs influence the use of nicotine medications. The data for this paper came from a nationally representative, random-digit-dialed telephone survey of 1,046 adults (18 years of age and older) current cigarette smokers conducted between May and September 2001. Respondents were que...

CCR Drug Updates Clinical Cancer Research Everolimus

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If you can’t beat them…

Though exceptions spring readily to mind, most scientists are essentially rational creatures, not given to hyperbole on a public stage. In contrast to the extravagant approaches often used by television producers, and by campaigners against animal experimentation or gene technology, scientists invariably want reason to win the day. This is probably a mistake, an echo of the desiccated objectivi...