Surrogate Endpoints and Biomarkers
Surrogate Endpoints and Biomarkers Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and…
GENERAL SURGERY
Improving the Standards of Clinical Trial Publications
Improving the Standards of Clinical Trial Publications Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward…
Human Subject Protection and Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials
Human Subject Protection and Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes so easy to recognize a falsehood. –Albert Einstein Whoever is careless…
Interactions between Clinicians and Statisticians for Analysis and Interpretation of Clinical Data
Interactions between Clinicians and Statisticians for Analysis and Interpretation of Clinical Data The most difficult thing is not to fool yourself, because you are the easiest one to fool. –Richard…
Incorporating Benefit-to-risk Determinations in Drug Development
Incorporating Benefit-to-risk Determinations in Drug Development An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems…
Contract Research Organizations and Outsourcing Strategies
Contract Research Organizations and Outsourcing Strategies Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements…
Clinical Significance
Clinical Significance The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one…
Conducting Clinical Trials Efficiently and Rapidly
Conducting Clinical Trials Efficiently and Rapidly The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books. –Paracelsus The goal of conducting more clinical trials as efficiently…
Feasibility of Multinational Trials
Feasibility of Multinational Trials Put an idea into your intelligence, and leave it there an hour, a day, a year without ever having occasion to refer to it. When at…
Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomics in Clinical Trials
Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomics in Clinical Trials I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he…
