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Grand Rounds March 1, 2024: Effect of an Intensive Food-As-Medicine Program on Health and Health Care Use: Evidence from a Randomized Clinical Trial (Joseph Doyle, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics MIT Sloan School of Management Slides Keywords Food-as-Medicine, Randomized Clinical Trial, Diabetes Key Points Diabetes is common and costly. Clinic staff included a dietitian, a nurse and a community health worker. 9% of the U.S.

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CVS, Medable alliance aims to tackle diversity in clinical trials

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CVS Health has said it will beef up its clinical trials operations, improving its ability to recruit patients from a broad demographic spectrum, via an agreement with digital health company Medable. The post CVS, Medable alliance aims to tackle diversity in clinical trials appeared first on.

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On Clinical Trials Day, CVS shares lessons learned from one year providing trial services

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In recent years the retail pharmacy chain has begun to delve more and more deeply into the healthcare sector – by constantly expanding the basic healthcare services offered at their instore Minute Clinics, and by buying into the health insurance insurance space with their $69 billion purchase of Aetna in 2017. Take us back to May 2020.

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Survey of Site Staff Offers Best Tactics to Target for Improving Participant Diversity

ACRP blog

Clinical trial sites that offer their study volunteers travel-related reimbursement and services, translated documents and translator services, and adequate compensation can have the most impact in terms of achieving diverse enrollment of participants, according to a new survey by a quartet of clinical researchers.

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Grand Rounds September 16, 2022: Using Nationwide Registries to Conduct Pragmatic Randomized Trials: The DANFLU Program (Tor Biering-Sørensen, MD, PhD, MPH)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

DANFLU-1, Pragmatic Clinical Trials. and the Danish Registry of Causes of Death (a registry of long-term clinical outcomes including hospitalizations, outpatient visits, procedures, prescriptions, mortality). Key Points. We are bypassing the normal ways because we are not in the hospitals.

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Why I Fight | A message from Gary Fishbein, MD, MPH

Worldwide Clinical Trials

Join us as we celebrate cancer research awareness month and clinical trials awareness month. Where I trained at the University of Maryland, there was literally a bridge that connected the research labs to the clinic. Learn more about Gary and his work with oncology at Worldwide Clinical Trials. Building Bridges.

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Tarpeyo (Budesonide) Is Transforming IgA Nephropathy Care with FDA’s Full Approval

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The FDA’s endorsement stems from results obtained from the company’s Phase III NefIgArd clinical trial. Related: Filspari (Sparsentan) Rare Kidney Disease Drug Gets FDA Approval Availability and Price of Tarpeyo Tarpeyo is available solely through Biologics by McKesson, Calliditas’ specialty pharmacy.