Wearables is a broad term covering all manner of smart and internet-connected devices that, rather than being carried around like a phone or tablet, are worn. Is the next step for these to help medical research and healthcare? Edgar Wilson explains here.
If you fail to recruit, your clinical trial will fail. This harsh reality has led to an increased number of embedded recruitment trials, assessing which recruitment strategy works best in what context. Research recently published in Trials outlines guidelines for reporting these embedded recruitment trials and here, Shaun Treweek, who was involved in the project, discusses how these guidelines not only impact reporting but should also influence embedded recruitment trial design.
Clinical and Translational Allergy today publishes research on the way an allergic reaction is triggered in the body and how this affects the way it can be identified. Co-author Kate Grimshaw explains more here.
Breast Cancer Research today publishes an article highlighting the effects chemotherapy has on a patient’s ability to fight infection. Sarah Theissen explains more about the findings here and also asks chemotherapy patients for their perspective.
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Cancer Research UK recently set out to find the current major challenges that need combatting in order to beat cancer. They presented seven challenges that would need to be overcome, and in this blog, originally posted on their website, they focus on the fifth: mapping cancer.
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Both doctors and patients take the reliability of diagnostic tests for granted, but are they really as accurate as they appear to be? Hannah Lippman explains more here.
What factors influence the design of a clinical trial? Research published today in Trials examined reports of randomized controlled trials to deduce what characteristics appear to be influenced by marketing considerations over science. Here, co-author Professor Carl Heneghan discusses what the research found.
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BMC Medicine has published an article investigating whether routinely collected data can predict dementia risk. Clare Walton of Alzheimer’s Society explains more.
Cancer Research UK recently set out to find the current major challenges that need combatting in order to beat cancer. They presented seven challenges that would need to be overcome, and in this blog, originally posted on their website, they focus on the fourth: identifying lethal from non-lethal cancers.