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…
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…
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…
May 20, 2020 It’s International Clinical Trials Day! May 20th marks the first ever documented clinical trial. Considering it was 273 years ago, it may come as no surprise that the first clinical trial was conducted…
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…
What are clinical trials? Clinical trials are research studies conducted on humans to explore and discover whether a medical strategy, treatment, or device is safe and effective for humans. Clinical trials help us to determine which…
