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U.S. Launches Task Force to Study Opening Government Data for AI Research
Source: Wall Street Journal The task force will draft a strategy for creating an AI research resource that could give researchers secure access to stores of anonymous data about Americans.
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CVS Health offers clinical trial services
Source: Reuters CVS Health Corp, best known for its national chain of drugstores, said on Thursday it had started offering clinical study services to support drug developers with tasks such as patient enrollment.
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Addressing Demographic Disparities in Clinical Trials
Source: Harvard Business Review Women, people of color, and the elderly are often underrepresented in the data.
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How Decentralized Clinical Trials Can Play A Role In Increasing Patient Recruitment And Diversity
Source: Forbes To understand how decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) may increase patient participation and diversity, we need to understand what they are and how they differ from traditional, centralized clinical trials.
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The FDA tells Johnson & Johnson that about 60 million doses made at troubled plant cannot be used
Source: New York Times The doses, produced at a Baltimore factory under federal review, could have been contaminated.
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Department of Education begins Title IX public hearings
Source: Inside Higher Ed On the first of five days of comment hearings, speakers advocated for and against changes to the Title IX regulations made by former secretary of education Betsy DeVos.
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Cyber standards are key in battling ransomware attacks
Source: CNBC Development of a set of cybersecurity standards, similar to generally accepted accounting principles, could go a long way in helping companies with breaches.
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