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Why Diversity in Clinical Trials Matters
Source: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Some run from it, some run to it. In nursing, we are either creators or consumers of research, whether it is quantitative, qualitative, mixed methodology or a clinical trial.
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Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA
Source: Science Researchers discover how DNA sequences must mutate to free their RNA to make proteins.
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Online mental health company uses ChatGPT to help respond to users in experiment — raising ethical concerns around healthcare and AI technology
Source: Business Insider Koko, a digital mental health nonprofit, said it used GPT-3 chatbots to help inform develop responses to 4,000 users on its peer support platform.
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Good Ethics to Good Science in Commercial Spaceflight Human Research
Source: Baylor College of Medicine A closer look at the need for international human research ethics standards in the commercial spaceflight industry.
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Improving clinical trial design using interpretable machine learning based prediction of early trial termination
Source: Nature In this study, we extracted 420,268 clinical trials from the AACT database and used feature engineering methods on numerical, categorical and free-text columns, and used machine learning to predict early trial termination using these features.
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How higher ed institutions can streamline security operations
Source: Ed Scoop Winston-Salem State University CIO and Tanium on how higher-ed institutions can rethink their security approach to keep up with today’s rapidly changing technology.
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Stakeholders seek flexibility, greater harmonization in FDA human subject protection rules
Source: RAPS Commenters from the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, academia and medical groups urged the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to help ease the complexity of the informed consent process.
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Emerging imaging technologies boosted by COVID research
Source: Radiology Business The dark cloud that was peak COVID-19 contained a number of silver linings. One of these, still coming to light, has been radiology research.
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Electronic Informed Consenting Improves Data for Clinical Research
Source: EHR Intelligence Clinical research participants completed 100 percent of electronic informed consenting fields, compared to 94 percent of data in paper-based consenting surveys.
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Here are the top risks college leaders are worried about this year
Source: Higher Ed Dive Recruitment and hiring vaulted into a top slot in an annual survey of risks concerning college leaders that's conducted by insurer United Educators.
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