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BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Gladys Maestre is on a scouting mission. The Alzheimer’s disease researcher is driving through Southmost, a Mexican American neighborhood just north of looming sections of the border …
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Rep. Robin Kelly admits that the word “diversity” has scared some of her Republican colleagues away from her effort to improve representation in clinical trials. “It’s been a little tough …
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An experimental antibody treatment prevented malaria in the majority of participants in a small but important new study, providing a measure of hope in the effort to lower the burden …
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TRIALS AND TRUST: This is the second part of a series on health equity and diversity in clinical trials and cancer research. RICHMOND, Va. — The residents agreed: Nobody like …
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It’s a problem so complex, so fraught with stigma and treatment complications, that innovation has crept forward slowly even as a crisis escalates: suicide prevention. But for several years, a …
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Sneha Dave has been living with a chronic disease for 17 years — almost her entire life. Diagnosed with ulcerative colitis when she was 6 years old, Dave has experienced …
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The battle against Covid-19 has been marked by false hope, as too many people embraced would-be cures like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin only to have rigorous studies fail to show the …
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Editor’s note: A recording of the event is embedded below. Keeping track of clinical trials is a herculean task, as millions of changes occur each year. STAT Trials Pulse is …
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