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Pharma Companies Make Recommendations to Enhance Credibility of Clinical Trial Publications

A group of pharmaceutical companies has issued a list of recommendations for improving the transparency and credibility of industry-supported clinical research. The recommendations include: Making all[…]

California DNA Privacy Law Could Be Problematic for Researchers

The California state legislature is currently considering a bill known as the Genetic Information Privacy Act. The bill includes very specific requirements for informed consent to[…]

CDC publishes MMWR Summary of Notifiable Diseases — United States, 2010

The CDC has posted the latest Summary of Notifiable Diseases, which contains data for the year 2010.  According to the CDC, “A notifiable disease is one[…]

World’s first Stem cell drug treatment approved

Osiris Therapeutics’s drug  Prochymal (remestemcel-L), for acute graft-versus host disease (GvHD), has been approved for marketing  by regulators in Canada.  The “drug” is approved for suppressing the[…]