This is a general category for clinical research
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 […]
In clinical trials, if we analyze, it is the randomization that yields accurate scientific evidence. In other words it means that causal relation between intervention and outcome is result of randomization. Randomization is a method of allocation of treatment in patients in a study at random. What this results in is that every patient/subject gets […]
In any clinical trial, the data generated is the most important thing. In multi centre clinical trials, the data shall be generated in much geography making it challenging to handle the data. Collecting the data from all the sites is a prolonged process in case of clinical trials using paper based CRFs. With the arrival […]
World Health Organization defines a Medical Device as, “any instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, appliance, implant, in-vitro reagent or calibrator, software, material or other similar or related article, intended by the manufacturer to be used, alone or in combination, for human beings for one or more of the specific purposes of: Diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or […]
A CTMS is a customizable software system to manage the clinical trial data generated by pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies. Starting from planning of the research proposal to the preparation, conduct, and report generation, a CTMS maintains and manages the up to date clinical trial data. The early phase clinical trial data is managed and maintained […]
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 […]