“Saying the new H1N1 [swine flu] virus is ‘unstoppable’, the WHO gave drug makers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines against the pandemic influenza strain on Monday and said healthcare workers should be the first to get one,” Reuters reports (Fox, 7/14). clinical research
International agency Oxfam fears that companies producing affordable generic medicines could be subject to criminal prosecutions and have their medicines seized on orders from big drug companies under plans being drawn up by a closed group of mainly rich countries. clinical research
“Senators agreed Monday to give high-tech biologic drugs 12 years of market protection before generic versions can compete,” according to The Associated Press. The AP reports: “The vote in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee was a victory for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries but a defeat for the Obama administration and AARP. clinical research
“Swiss drug company Novartis AG and the Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit group, will announce this week a partnership to discover drugs for a type of diarrhea that kills about 1.6 million children each year in the developing world,” the Wall Street Journal reports. clinical research
Anesthesia Society Announces Availability of $320,000 in Research Grants (Newswise)The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) is proud to announce its 2010 Clinical Scholar Research Awards, which will provide up to $320,000 towards anesthesia research. The awards will go to researchers whose projects are judged by peer review to have high scientific merit and high probability of success.
Anesthesia Society Announces Availability of $320,000 in Research Grants (Newswise)The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) is proud to announce its 2010 Clinical Scholar Research Awards, which will provide up to $320,000 towards anesthesia research. The awards will go to researchers whose projects are judged by peer review to have high scientific merit and high probability of success.
Clinical Research & Clinical TrialsClinical research is research that either directly involves a particular person or group of people or uses materials from humans, such as their behavior or samples of their tissue .
