Severe fetal growth restriction is a rare yet one of the riskiest obstetric complications, requiring clinicians make decisions based on ultrasound tests to avoid stillbirth. Professor Stephen Tong, author of a new study in BMC Medicine, explains how his team utilised molecular diagnostics in search of new tool to improve the accuracy of these tests.
In this blog, Sophie Staniszewska and Richard Stephens, Editors-in-Chief of Research Involvement and Engagement highlight the importance of patient and public involvement in trials on International Clinical Trials Day.
How much do you know about the clinical trials currently investigating COVID-19?
Clinical trials are urgently needed to test treatments and vaccines for COVID-19. In our blog for Clinical Trials Day 2020 we look at the studies that have been registered at the ISRCTN registry as of May 2020.
To mark Clinical Trials Day, ISRCTN registry Database Manager Claire Veryard describes how the primary trial registries in the World Health Organization (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) network have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To mark Clinical Trials Day, Ghassan Karam and Anna Laura Ross from the World Health Organization (WHO) explain the role and achievements of the WHO’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) in providing freely accessible and consistent clinical trial information throughout the world.