The lack of racial and ethnic diversity among clinical trial participants is a critical problem in medical research in the United States -- a weakness exposed quite starkly by the COVID pandemic and the resulting national spotlight on 1) clinical trials and 2) healthcare inequity....
It is Christmas Eve, and over 500,000 Americans have received their first dose of the Pfizer MRNA vaccine. A holiday gift to healthcare workers and other priority recipients. On December 18th, Moderna’s vaccine joined Pfizer in receiving emergency use authorization by the US FDA, further...
Do you hear that? It’s the sound of silence in an academic medical center office, where phones have not been ringing for some time. I’m going to tell you the secret tale about why the phones have stopped ringing. Whosoever finishes the journey to story’s...
COVID-19 kills three times as many Black Americans as White Americans. The selective lethality of the coronavirus is rooted in broader health disparities in this country. As long as these disparities are allowed, we will suffer an array of practical and moral consequences; lacking the...
Part 4: A Researcher’s Dedication to Service During COVID-19 At the Peak of Philadelphia’s Outbreak, Award Winning Research Coordinator Rupa Chowdary Volunteered for Duty at the University of Pennsylvania. Hustling across the broad boulevard of Market St as if training for a marathon, Rupa Chowdary raced to...
Patients are enrolling in COVID-19 clinical trials at a rate that could accelerate the discovery of a vaccine. They are also enrolling at a rate that is higher than the average enrollment typically experienced at research centers. Part 1 of this series published at the...
This week we continue our series on COVID-19 Clinical Research honoring the medical researchers working on the frontlines of the Pandemic in search of effective treatments and a vaccine. Like the volunteers raising their hand to participate in COVID research, clinical researchers and medical scientists...