Recent guidelines by the Drug Controller General of India require extra care by Investigators & Sponsors of Clinical Trials in India. The author, an eminent member & Chairman of various Independent Ethics Committees in Mumbai, proposes various concrete solutions for adherence to these guidelines. Insurance cover to the subjects, use of Internet databanks for drug interactions, active involvemen...

BACKGROUND In Australia, sport is saturated by the promotion of junk food, alcohol and gambling products. This is particularly evident on player jerseys. The effect of this advertising on children, who are exposed to these messages while watching sport, has not been thoroughly investigated. The aim of this research study was to investigate: (1) the extent to which children implicitly recalled s...

Societal responsibilities of clinical trial sponsors-Lack of commercial pay off is not a legitimate reason for stopping a trial.

Authors and their sponsors are beginning to realize that immediate free Web access (IFWA) provides the most convenient access to journal articles thereby maximizing their impact. Furthermore, IFWA is the most economical mode of access, and, no matter what the mode, authors and their sponsors pay nearly all the costs of access. Because those who pay for access to journal articles consider IFWA b...

Despite the recent success of the nintedanib and pirfenidone programmes [1, 2], idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) remains a high-risk disease area for drug development. There are no adequate preclinical models in which to test potential compounds, and no established early clinical development pathway on which to make quick decisions regarding potential efficacy [3]. The historical approach in...

______________________________________________________________________________ This study draws inferences about investment decisions by plan sponsors who oversee over $6 trillion in institutional investment assets by examining asset and account flows for activelymanaged U.S. equity products. Analysis reveals an expected role for benchmarks – primarily the S&P500 – and a curious role for total ...

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We analyze the dynamics of growth of the number of congressmen supporting the resolution HR1207 to audit the Federal Reserve. The plot of the total number of co-sponsors as a function of time is of “Devil’s staircase” type. The distribution of the numbers of new co-sponsors joining during a particular day (step height) follows a power law. The distribution of the length of intervals between add...

For the past several years, the JACMP has issued awards to several manuscripts deemed by the Board of Editors to be worthy of the designation “Best Papers.” These awards are selected by a committee of the Board of Editors and are supported by grants from some of our corporate sponsors. By listing the Best Papers of 2009, I would like to honor the award winners for their contributions to the cli...