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Prime Medicine Gets FDA Okay for First Trial of Gene Editing Technique

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The FDA has cleared a clinical trial of an ex vivo prime editing candidate in patients with a rare disease, Prime Medicine announced Monday. The technique taps CRISPR technology to rewrite defective genes without breaking DNA double helix strands.

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February 28, 2024: A Randomized Trial of a Food-as-Medicine Program, in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Rethinking Clinical Trials

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Joseph Doyle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will present “Effect of an Intensive Food-as-Medicine Program on Health and Healthcare Use: Evidence From a Randomized Clinical Trial.” Doyle is the Erwin H. Join the online meeting.

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January 3, 2024: Special Biostatistics Series Concludes With Missing Data in Cluster Randomized Trials

Rethinking Clinical Trials

In this Friday's PCT Grand Rounds, Rui Wang of Harvard Medical School will offer the final session in our special series, Advances in the Design and Analysis of Pragmatic Clinical Trials, with "Methods for Handling Missing Data in Cluster Randomized Trials." The session will be held on Friday, January 5, at 1:00 pm eastern.

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April 10, 2024: Primary Results of PRIM-ER Trial to Be Featured in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Corita Grudzen, principal investigator of PRIM-ER In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Corita Grudzen of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will present “Primary Palliative Care for Emergency Medicine, a Cluster Randomized Stepped-Wedge Trial Across 33 Emergency Departments,” including the results of the PRIM-ER trial.

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Looking to the future of clinical trials: Gene therapy, precision medicine, and the ongoing quest for rare disease solutions

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Looking to the future of clinical trials: Gene therapy, precision medicine, and the ongoing quest for rare disease solutions Mike.Hammerton Tue, 27/02/2024 - 12:30 Bookmark this

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July 18, 2022: New Article Offers Recommendations for Pragmatic Trials in Emergency Medicine

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Investigators planning emergency department (ED)­–based pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) face multiple decisions during the planning phase to ensure robust and meaningful study findings in this unique setting; however, there is no guide for planning and conducting these studies. Read the full text of the article.

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Biohaven sends latest drug to FDA, despite past trial setback

Bio Pharma Dive

The biotech, best known for its success developing migraine medicines, will seek approval of a treatment that failed a Phase 3 trial but showed signs of a positive effect.

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