Clinical trials are the experiments that involve the participation of human volunteers to find out whether a new treatment is safe, effective and superiority of the treatment. In Ophthalmology, clinical trials are mainly being conducted in the following therapeutic conditions: Astigmatism Cataracts Conjunctivitis, Bacterial Diabetic Macular Edema Diabetic Retinopathy Eye Disorders/Infections Glaucoma Macular Degeneration Macular […]
In Tanzania, Health Research was started in 1897 by the incident of opening a laboratory by Dr. Koch, a German scientist. In 50 years of the country’s Independence, a lot has been done in health research, as reported by an official Newspaper. In 1912, epidemiological studies were conducted by seven Germans, following an outbreak of […]
MedDRA, the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities, is a medical terminology used to classify adverse event information associated with the use of biopharmaceuticals and other medical products. (Defined by MedDRA MSSO). Big-Pharma used one or more available sources for medical terminology coding, like COSTART, WHO-ART, WHO-DRUG, etc., for many years. But in order to bring […]
It is believed that a clinical trial is a partnership between a patient and a researcher that is based on trust and understanding. This is a partnership of peers, with both parties hoping for a favorable outcome that saves lives and bring on major changes in the field of medicine. At the heart of this […]
Biostatistics an application of statistics is nothing but the science of the analyzing design and data of biological experiments, especially in medicine and related research. By definition, it is the collection, summarization, and analysis of data from those experiments; and the interpretation of, and inference from, the results. Statistical analyses may be helpful in answering […]
Stem cell research is being hailed to answer many unanswered questions in modern medicine. The regenerative ability of stem cells brought a revolution in the world of medicine, in re-formation of many organs like heart, kidney, lungs, etc. But there is a dispute going on this regeneration process as the stem cells used for this […]
Plagiarism is nothing but an “act of appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit”. It can be categorized as: a) Plagiarism of ideas and b) Plagiarism of text (verbatim). Plagiarism sabotages one’s abilities, integrity and analytical thinking process. It restricts the plagiarist from learning the intended lessons. To avoid […]
Submitted by: Ms. Kalpana Peyyeti, BAMS, PGDCR – JLI Global Clinical Research Academy, Lakdi-ka-pul, Hyderabad As per the WHO definition, a clinical trial is any research study that prospectively assigns human participants to one or more health related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcome. Ethics are concerned with the distinction between Right and […]
Vaccine clinical trials are long-term studies aimed at assessing the safety, efficacy and immunogenicity of a new vaccine product. Sometimes trials also assess how well the product meshes with existing healthcare delivery systems, such as national immunization programs. The clinical trials that are conducted to prevent the transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus come under Vaccine […]
To define, ‘Clinical research involves the study of human beings in a systematic investigation of human biology, health, or illness, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge’. Clinical research includes a set of activities that are meant to test a hypothesis, formed on particular treatments/diagnostics/medical devices and so on. The conclusions drawn from such […]