Friday, November 21, 2014

Upcoming clinical trials for Ebola treatments

An international consortium has recently been approved to test Ebola treatments.  However, these studies will not have a randomized design or an untreated control group leading many to question whether the results will be informative http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6212/908.full

Patients in the spare Ebola treatment unit in Kenema, Sierra Leone, in August
J Cohen, and K Kupferschmidt Science 2014;346:908-911