Buprenorphine and naltrexone can help break a person’s addiction to life-threatening opioid use disorder, but they can be hard for front-line, primary care providers to prescribe, according to researchers at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science…
Tag: Clinical Trials
New paper creates omega-3 calculator for researchers to specify EPA+DHA doses in studies
Certain EPA+DHA doses are needed to achieve a healthy omega-3 index and meet study endpoints
Quest for new cancer treatment crosses milestone
Therapy invented at Rice University excels in pilot clinical trials
Effectiveness of a new bladder cancer demonstrated
Preliminary results show a good response to the drug in patients with metastatic tumors that did not
Scaling up a nanoimmunotherapy for atherosclerosis through preclinical testing
By integrating translational imaging techniques with improvements to production methods, Tina Binderup and colleagues have scaled up a promising nanoimmunotherapy for atherosclerosis in mice, rabbits and pigs – surmounting a major obstacle in nanomedicine. Their study brings the anti-inflammatory treatment…
Two-pronged gene therapy for glioblastoma proves safe in phase 1 trial
A phase 1 clinical trial has demonstrated that a two-step gene therapy treatment was safe and effective in 31 patients with recurrent glioblastoma – a stubborn form of brain cancer – potentially overcoming a major hurdle that has hindered the…
Abstract Winners Selected for Clinical Research Innovation Meeting
Three abstracts focused on improving clinical trials processes have been selected for formal presentation at the Association of American Cancer Institutes’ (AACI) Clinical Research Innovation (CRI) annual meeting, July 9-11, in Chicago. The CRI Steering Committee and CRI Education Committee…