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Wednesday, 07/30/2014 9:47:38 AM

Wednesday, July 30, 2014 9:47:38 AM

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Researchers Fret as Social Media Lift Veil on Drug Trials



Maybe "Placebo" controlled trials should no longer be consider the gold standard they once were...

http://online.wsj.com/articles/researchers-fret-as-social-media-lift-veil-on-drug-trials-1406687404

Emil Kakkis has been a big advocate for an adaptive trial design (in particular for rare diseases where populations are small and efficacy could be small/take long to show significance). Perhaps its time to explore these/other changes to speed development?

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