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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2019-12-11

European Commission publishes new documents regarding the Clinical Trials Regulation

Shortly after updating the related draft Questions and Answers document, the European Commission has published two new documents concerning the Clinical Trials Regulation (EU) 536/2014. The first document is an informed consent and patient recruitment procedure template. The second document is an updated clinical trial Application Form. 2. Recruitment and Informed consent procedure template This draft template was developed

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2019-12-08

KU Leuven responds to allegations of scientific misconduct

KU Leuven has received allegations against one of its researchers regarding possible infringements of scientific integrity. The Commission on Scientific Integrity (CWI) at KU Leuven is looking into the matter. According to a report in De Tijd (paywall), university rector Luc Sels is to call together the Committee on Scientific Integrity following a number of complaints against

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2019-12-08

Washington Post publishes a new piece on the unproven regenerative clinic firm the Lung Health Institute.

This article has a number of surprises and new insights. A Tampa-based regenerative clinic accused of using aggressive and unfair marketing tactics to lure the diseased and desperate into spending thousands of dollars on unproven stem cell therapies laid off a “small number of non-medical” employees earlier this week, a company spokesperson confirmed. While it’s

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2019-12-07

Buyer beware of this unproven and untested $1 million gene therapy for aging, that might even be harmful to your health

Offshore tests by a startup seek to lengthen people’s telomeres—and their lives. Source MIT Technology Review It’s said that nothing is certain except death and taxes. But doubt has been cast over the former since the 1970s, when scientists picked at the seams of one of the fundamental mysteries of biology: the molecular reasons we

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2019-12-07

FDA sends warning to companies for offering unapproved umbilical cord blood products that may put patients at risk

Liveyon Labs Inc. and Liveyon LLC warned that their stem cell products lack required FDA approval and represent a potential risk to the public health The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned Liveyon Labs Inc. (Liveyon Labs) and Liveyon LLC, of Yorba Linda, California, and their presidents and chief executive officers, Roya Panah and John

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2019-10-17

Science writers discuss public perceptions, misconceptions about science

Scientific research follows processes to validate, refute prior evidence Source The Badger Herald A panel of science writers and experts discussed the importance of understanding uncertainty in the scientific process at the Discovery Building Wednesday night.  The University of Wisconsin’s 2019 Science Writer in Residence Christie Aschwanden’s scientific journalism has appeared in FiveThirtyEight, the Washington Post,

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