Credit: iStock Pharmaceutical drugs undoubtedly save lives. Penicillin, given to a patient for the first time in 1941, was the first antibiotic developed and has saved millions of lives. It's no easy task, bringing a drug to market. It can take over a decade and more than a billion dollars. If an individual person wanted … Continue reading A Billion Dollar Gamble: How Drugs are Developed
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Reckoning with Diversity and Equity Problems in U.S. Research and Clinical Trials
Credit: iStock Long simmering racial tensions across the U.S. have bubbled to the surface again. This is especially true on the heels of the recent police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. The fallout resulted in protesters taking to the streets around the nation to call for an end to racism and declaring “Black lives … Continue reading Reckoning with Diversity and Equity Problems in U.S. Research and Clinical Trials