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…
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…
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…
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…
