Patients who are administered medication, have faith in the medicine while having it. There is a belief of getting cured. The trust lies with the prescribing doctor & the pharmacist; who in turn rely on the manufacturer of the medicine for its quality. No one involved in this chain (neither the patient, the doctor or […]
A placebo controlled study is where subjects are randomly assigned to a placebo along with the intervention studied. In case there is no established/available (standard) treatment for a given condition; a placebo control is often the design of choice. However, questions are raised if a treatment is available that is more effective than the placebo. […]
The evolution of traditional medicine has taken place since thousands of years. This form of medicine has been very dominant in most of parts of South East Asia. In today’s world this form of practicing medicine is called Traditional Medicine or Complementary/Alternative medicine (TM/CAM). TM/CAM is monitored in this region under the regulations of WHO […]
A clinical trial enrols human volunteers to determine the safety and efficacy of the new or existing drugs or medical devices in different therapeutic conditions, while the subjects well-being and rights are protected. The success of a clinical research project depends upon the subject enrolment and randomization rate. To accelerate and enhance the patient enrolment, […]
In many cultures and scriptures the knowledge about the use of traditional plants was through. This was passed on within families from generations to generations. These were highly nourished but hardly any of it was documented; and if it was written then it was in local languages, which were pretty difficult to interpret. (Biswal M […]
An Investigator Meeting is usually a sponsor’s job, but a CRO may also be delegated with this task. For many from the industry, investigator meeting is much targeted and criticized for overspending. It is argued that these meetings are generally hosted to lure investigators in clinical trials but if we try to understand the need […]
Stem cells are unspecialized cells that have ability to self-regenerate and ability to differentiate into other cells. Stem cell technology is being used in treating many diseases those formerly have no treatment, but most of them are in elementary stage. In recent years, clinical trials with stem cells have taken the emerging field in many […]
We are quite known to the term ICH-GCP and most of us have an understanding that GCP (Good Clinical Practice) are guidelines that have been proposed by ICH for the Clinical Research arena. Let us now focus on the organisation of ICH, which very few of us have tried to explore. As we all know […]
Pharmacoepidemiology is a sub-discipline of epidemiology which is concerned with evaluating the efficacy, effectiveness and safety of pharmaceutical products while Pharmacoeconomics is branch of health economics which highlight the evaluation of pharmaceutical products in terms of their value for money. When we observe largely, it seems that the goals of pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics are similar […]
World Health Organization defines Quality Of Life as ‘individuals’ perceptions of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, standards, expectations and concerns”. Quality Of Life depicts the difference i.e. the gap between the hopes and expectations of a person […]