Research participants take part in clinical trials for a variety of reasons. The healthy volunteers may be seeking extra money to pay off college tuition, or they may know someone who is suffering and would potentially benefit from the results of the trial. The patient who is terminall...
The incident provoked criticism of the way in which trial participants are recruited, of the fees they are paid and of the regulatory system itself. This paper describes the TGN1412 disaster and explores some of the legal issues arising there from. Volunteers are crucial to the drug development...
Participants in early Phase I clinical trials for drugs designed to enhance cognition are typically healthy volunteers. If improvement can be detected with a battery of cognitive tests in healthy volunteers, such a battery could be a pharmacodynamic marker in the future development of the compound fo...
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Selection criteria We included all primary and secondary prevention randomised clinical trials on antioxidant supplements (beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, and selenium) versus placebo or no intervention. Included participants were either healthy (primary prevention trials) or had any ...
Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Consent for Publication Not applicable. Authors’ Contributions Conceptualization: S.A.A., I.G., A.V., B.C.; methodology: S.A.A., I.G., V.B., C.G., V.R., B.C.; formal analysis and investigatio...
Scientist from the University of Florida and Fudan University conducted a study with non-demented older adults from Shanghai, China and found the participants who practiced tai chi three times a week showed significant increases in brain volume and improvements in their memory and thinking test score...
Effect of time restricted eating on body weight and fasting glucose in participants with obesity: results of a randomized, controlled, virtual clinical trial Introduction Long-term dietary habits are determinants of metabolic health1. In particular, western-style diets, which include fat-rich food and...
Participants taking Placebo were 1.73 times more likely to use cold/flu medication compared to those receiving EpiCor (P = 0.04). The incidence of cold/flu symptoms was not significantly different between groups. EpiCor was found to be safe and well-tolerated. Conclusions EpiCor supplementation...
Background:Recruitment to dementia prevention clinical trials is challenging, and participants are not representative of US adults at risk. A better understanding of the general public's interest in dementia prevention research participation is needed to inform future recruitment strategies. Objective:To ...