The most recent evidence shows patient recruitment and retention issues to be a persistent problem in clinical trials. Also, it is almost certain that this problem will only continue to grow as the years go on. (1,2) Missing data is often due to patients being lost to follow-up or withdrawing before data collection time points, […]
A recently published study by Dyer O (2017) exposed major drawbacks in the accelerated approval process of some drugs available to the American patients without any stringent clinical evidence of their benefits. (1) Drugs receiving fast track approvals from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) often rest on a weak evidence base, says research that […]
According to the data from clinicaltrials.gov, 1.4% of global clinical trials are done in India, when the country has 16% of the world’s population and carries 20% disease burden in the world. However, the number of clinical trials in India is expected to rise by 2018-19 as a result of more stable and predictable regulations for clinical […]
