Tag Archives: Trials

How Vaccine Trials Routinely Rig the Results

In a rather shocking turn of events, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sneaked in a “Future Framework”1 scheme that will allow Pfizer and Moderna to reformulate and release updated COVID shots without conducting any additional human clinical trials, other than what’s already been done.2,3,4 FDA Rewrites the Rules on the Fly A vote on… Read More »

AstraZeneca begins final trials of Oxford University coronavirus vaccine enrolling 50,000 people

AstraZeneca begins final trials of Oxford University coronavirus vaccine enrolling 50,000 people worldwide and 30,000 in the US as company signs £15million manufacturing deal Thousands volunteers already being injected with jab in UK, Brazil, South Africa Preliminary data from phase 3 trials expected ‘soon’, said lead jab researcher  Developers say they hope to deliver the… Read More »

Beyond politics, gold-standard COVID-19 trials test malaria drug taken by Trump

(Reuters) – In the fight against COVID-19, the decades-old anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine has become a political football, with U.S. President Donald Trump personally taking it and hailing it as a “game changer,” to the derision of critics. FILE PHOTO: Researcher Cody Hoffmann checks the results of an automated liquid handler as researchers begin a trial… Read More »

Many people living with HIV unwilling to interrupt treatment for prolonged periods during HIV cure trials

A study assessing the opinions of people living with HIV and their healthcare providers about analytic treatment interruptions (ATIs) has found that patients had limited understanding of how ATIs are usually conducted in HIV cure studies. These findings are reported by Dr Jillian Lau and colleagues in AIDS Research and Retroviruses. Treatment interruptions pose potential… Read More »