Epidemiology

Destiny Pharma, a UK-based clinical stage biotechnology company focused on the development of novel medicines to prevent life threatening infections, has published landmark XF-73 clinical data in the US peer reviewed journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.    The paper was published by Dr. Julie Mangino (Professor Emeritus, Division of Infectious Diseases, at The Ohio State […]

A diversity study has shown that clinical trials should use real world diseases epidemiology data, rather than US Census Bureau race and ethnicity data, to ensure enrolment reflects the populations affected by different diseases.  GSK’s retrospective study looked at clinical trial demographic data from 495 GSK and ViiV clinical trials involving US-based participants from the […]

New research conducted by the University of Oxford, Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bayer AG, offers new insight into how to treat endometriosis, a painful, chronic condition in which tissue from the uterus inappropriately grows outside the uterus. Current treatments are limited and include surgery and hormone therapy, which can involve unwanted […]

Pfizer has launched a Centre of Excellence for Epidemiology of Vaccine-preventable Diseases at the University of Bristol. The centre, which is the second to launch to date and the first outside the US, will be led by Adam Finn, Professor of Paediatrics at Bristol, Director of the Bristol Vaccine Centre at Bristol Medical School and […]