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
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  1. Dept. of PharmacologyJune 23, 2016 at 3:25 AM

    Wow. An interesting article.
    This addresses the ethical issues of equipoise and the obligation by researchers not to withhold known superior interventions from trial subjects.
    The key question is, at what point is equipoise lost? Clearly there are no standard guidelines for this, nor can there be.
    Dept. of Pharmacology
    http://pharmacology.uonbi.ac.ke/

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