brad hightower

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"France the Mute" is 20 years old

Guess we can always just drill for more oil.

Industry, not NIH, fronts most of the cash for clinical trials: report Industry spending far outpaces the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) when it comes to clinical development, a new report has shown. | A new analysis shows that the NIH spent $8.1 billion on pha...

To be clear, I don't disagree that the whole situation is fucked.

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"I never thought the leopards would eat my face"

-Oklahomans, probably

There are a lot of clinical trials that are industry sponsored and not impacted by this.

Genuine question but what is that $100m spent on? I run community research sites and only worked in academia briefly. I know pharma sponsored research is a different animal but I always thought those F&A rates were insanely high and never had any idea what they were actually going towards.

Yeah, but, you know... Money.

i dunno man. lots of scientists out there saying "you know, clinical trials are too diverse. we gotta do something about that"

Any now it's gone. wtf. #clinicaltrials

There's really not enough sneaker content on Bluesky.

KOTD

Air Jordan 3 x J Balvin 'Rio'

We're #1, baby!

lol. Look, I agree that it's fucked up. I still think it's important not to conflate treatment and research experiments. But, sure, point taken.

Just seeing an abstract. I'll message you. Thanks.

this dude really creeps me out

This is really cool. Is there somewhere I can read more about this?

at the risk of being pedantic, clinical trials are not treatment.

Per an NIH source:

“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

ok well. i guess that's that

take 2

I can't imagine why people wouldn't trust AI. Deepseek seems cool.

This shit is pretty scary. #clinicaltrials

amazing. thanks.

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It will depend on who is sponsoring the trial. Pharmaceutical company sponsored trials are not impacted. There should be contact info in the consent form they signed. They can call their PI or a coordinator to find out more.

why don't we see more phase 3 platform trials in pharma? #clinicaltrials #clinicalresearch

I don't disagree with this sentiment but informed consent forms are pretty clear about the uncertain nature of clinical trials. This is from a real study and is in pretty much every ICF for every study we perform. Either way, this sucks.

Enhancing the Diversity of Clinical Trial Populations — Eligibility Cr Guidance for Industry

While the recent draft guidance for diversity plans in clinical trials has been taken offline, at least previous guidance still appears to be in tact.

There's that at least. I guess.

#clinicaltrials #clinicalresearch

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Interesting article.

"These applications improve efficiency and reduce costs but are unlikely to significantly increase success probabilities or approval rates. Automation alone does not equate to scientific advancement"

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It turns out that JFKs head did, in fact, just do that.

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Thanks! I have no idea what I'm doing. Yet.