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Biomedicine
Study data from McGill University provide new insights into biomedicine
May 12th, 2009
"Modern biomedicine is based on a number of novel institutions and practices that, in order to function, require some degree of formal and informal regulation. This paper contributes to the ongoing investigation of these processes, and the forms of objectivity they generate, by examining the emergence, development and deployment of Data Monitoring Committees in the field of clinical trials," investigators in Montreal, Canada report. "The idea of a DMC had originally been raised in the clinical trial methodology literature in the 1970s so as to solve the problem of the management of interim trial data. Many leading clinical trial statisticians proposed that interim data...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-05-12)
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