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YSPH Senior Fellow Kaakpema Yelpaala urges greater diversity in clinical trials
Kaakpema “KP” Yelpaala, MPH ’06, lecturer and senior fellow in public health (health policy) at the Yale School of Public Health, traveled to New Orleans to advocate for diverse clinical trials at the Global Black Economic Forum.
19 Jul 2024
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Researchers Are Testing Paxlovid as a Treatment for Long COVID
Long COVID currently affects millions of people in the U.S. Symptoms can include brain fog, tremors, sleep disorders, and shortness of breath. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other academic medical centers recently launched clinical trials aimed at finding treatments for long COVID. Researchers think that there may be different causes of long COVID symptoms in different people, which is why they are conducting different clinical trials in many centers around the country.
Source: Verywell Health
22 Aug 2023
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What is ‘long vax’? Symptoms linked to COVID-19 shot baffle docs
Researchers say long vax could be due to an immune overreaction to the Covid protein.
Source: New York Post
6 Jul 2023
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Rare link between coronavirus vaccines and Long Covid–like illness starts to gain acceptance
Studies probe unusual cases of neurologic complications, blood pressure swings, and other side effects.
Source: Science
3 Jul 2023
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Digestive Diseases Program Facilitates Research for Investigators and Study Coordinators
Investigators in the Yale School of Medicine Section of Digestive Diseases are conducting clinical trials in a variety of areas, including fatty liver disease, hepatitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and primary sclerosing cholangitis. The studies serve to help patients with complicated conditions who either have no treatment options or who would like to try novel therapies.
31 Oct 2023
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Yale-led Research Explains Why Many Cancer Drugs Fail During Clinical Trial Testing
Uncovering the mechanisms behind a mischaracterized drug could shed light on its poor performance in clinical trials, research suggests.
20 Oct 2023
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Shockwave Begins First All-Female Study Of Coronary Interventions
The EMPOWER CAD trial will evaluate Shockwave’s intravascular lithotripsy system in female patients undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary artery disease.
Source: Medtech Insight
26 Jul 2023
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Bassir Nia the PI for Test of Compound in Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder
Anahita Bassir Nia, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, is the PI in a clinical trial that will test a compound for treatment of alcohol use disorder.
Source: Globe Newswire
24 Jul 2023
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EHR Nudges a Bust for Boosting Guideline-Directed Meds in Acute HF: PROMPT-AHF
A system of personalized alerts did not improve discharge prescriptions for guideline-directed medical therapy for patients hospitalized with heart failure.
Source: Medscape
6 Jun 2023
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Shockwave Medical Launches New Coronary IVL Catheter Internationally and Enrolls First Patient in All-Female Empower Study
The first patient has been enrolled in EMPOWER CAD, the first prospective, all-female study of percutaneous coronary intervention.
Source: Shockwave Medical, Inc.
15 May 2023
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Evidence-Based Medical Therapies for Heart Failure: PROMPT-AHF Trial
Tariq Ahmad, MD, MPH, will present a late-breaking clinical trial during the 2023 European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Association annual meeting.
6 May 2023
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Draft Guidance Reflects FDA’s Thinking Around Decentralized Trials
The cardiology community must recognize that this will change how trials are done in the next decade, Harlan Krumholz says.
Source: TCTMD
4 May 2023
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Prevención de accidentes cerebrovasculares: CREST-2
El Dr. Carlos Mena-Hurtado recibió un premio rally del centro de coordinación clínica por el liderazgo excepcional en el ensayo CREST-2.
2 May 2023
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Yale receives clinical coordinating center rally award for CREST-2 trial
Carlos Mena-Hurtado, MD, received a Clinical Coordinating Center Rally award for outstanding leadership in the CREST-2 trial.
18 Apr 2023
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AACR names president-elect for 2023-2024
Patricia M. LoRusso, DO, PhD (hc), has been elected president-elect of American Association for Cancer Research for 2023-2024.
Source: HemeOnc Today
18 Apr 2023
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Joining medical clinical trials and receiving new treatments can be tough. Here’s how a CT hospital is changing that.
Patients with difficult-to-treat diseases can join clinical trials, the vital studies that test new medications, more easily now, according to Dr. Roy Herbst, deputy director of the Yale Cancer Center.
Source: Hartford Courant
27 Mar 2023
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Tagrisso demonstrated strong overall survival benefit in the ADAURA Phase III trial for adjuvant treatment of patients with early-stage EGFR-mutated lung cancer
Positive high-level results from the ADAURA Phase III trial showed AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso (osimertinib) demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival (OS), a key secondary endpoint, compared to placebo in the adjuvant treatment of patients with early-stage (IB, II and IIIA) epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated (EGFRm) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after complete tumour resection with curative intent.
Source: AstraZeneca
8 Mar 2023
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Confronting Health Disparities in Clinical Trials
Boehringer Ingelheim is partnering with Yale Cancer Center and Patricia M. LoRusso, DO, PhD, FASCO, to improve access to early-phase clinical cancer trials by reducing health disparities such as lack of transportation, childcare and financial or food insecurity.
Source: Boehringer Ingelheim
6 Mar 2023
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Clinical trials on trial
A lack of diversity in clinical trials threatens the development of effective drugs and medical devices. That’s because not all populations have the same responses to treatments and devices, and trials that don’t include them all could miss problems.
Source: Politico
17 Jan 2023
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Comparison of diuretics shows no difference in heart failure survival
NIH-funded clinical trial underscores need for better treatments for heart failure.
Source: National Institutes of Health
16 Jan 2023