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FDA official offers examples of RWE being used to secure drug approval

An official from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday presented three case studies demonstrating how sponsors effectively utilized real-world evidence (RWE) and real-world data (RWD) to ...
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Metastatic Versus Localized Disease as Inclusion Criteria That Can Be Automatically Extracted From Randomized Controlled Trials Using Natural Language Processing

Extracting inclusion and exclusion criteria in a structured, automated fashion remains a challenge to developing better search functionalities or automating systematic reviews of randomized controlled ...
News Medical

Randomized clinical food trials: Best clinical practice, quality management & data processing

Thought LeadersAoife Hayes, Kevin O'Regan & Julie ScanlonClinical Trials Assitant, Operations Manager & Quality Assurance ManagerAtlantia Clinical Trials Food clinical trials may not be as familiar to ...
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Use of immune checkpoint inhibitors as first line therapy for untreated, unresectable pleural mesothelioma: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Temporal trends of mortality due to mesothelioma among older adults in the United States: A CDC WONDER analysis on gender and race disparities. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO ...
STAT

Keeping pregnant participants out of medical research is more dangerous than including them

“Well, we don’t have as much evidence as we would like on steroid use during pregnancy,” the obstetrician warned my co-author, Natalia Emanuel, as she wrote a prescription for inhaled corticosteroids ...
CNN

Despite Kennedy’s claims, vaccines have been tested in placebo-controlled studies

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly claimed in public statements that most vaccines recommended for children in the US have not been tested against placebos, ...