clinical trial

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Dementia patients and their carers to be asked about direction of drug research

19 Mar 2025

Cambridge researchers are seeking the views of people with lived experience of dementia – patients and their friends and families – on which existing...

Training a new breed of clinical triallist

03 Feb 2022

Cambridge's Experimental Medicine Initiative, working with AstraZeneca and GSK, is training specialists who can work out at an earlier stage of...

Cambridge leads trial to see if tapeworm drug can boost protection from COVID-19 among vulnerable

22 Mar 2021

UK researchers are launching a clinical trial to investigate if the drug niclosamide, usually used to treat tapeworms, can prevent COVID-19 infection...

How machine learning can help to future-proof clinical trials in the era of COVID-19

23 Sep 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest global healthcare crisis of our generation, presenting enormous challenges to medical research, including...

‘Pill on a string’ test to transform oesophageal cancer diagnosis

30 Jul 2020

A ‘pill on a string’ test can identify ten times more people with Barrett’s oesophagus than the usual GP route, after results from a 3-year trial...

Drugs: how to pick a winner in clinical trials

26 Jun 2017

When a drug fails late on in clinical trials it’s a major setback for launching new medicines. It can cost millions, even billions, of research and...

Using the internet to boost participation in clinical trials

28 Apr 2015

The success of a clinical trial hinges on its ability to recruit enough patients. Dr Frank Waldron-Lynch from the Cambridge Institute for Medical...

Study of peanut allergy therapy shows 84 per cent success

30 Jan 2014

A new therapy for peanut allergy has been successful in the majority of the 99 children who took part in a clinical trial.

Scientists discover genetic disease which causes recurrent respiratory infections

18 Oct 2013

Discovery could lead to new treatments for this genetic disorder.