£7 million government investment in Patient Recruitment Centres for commercial clinical research

NHS patients will benefit from easier access to clinical research opportunities, following a £7 million government investment to launch five new regional Patient Recruitment Centres (PRCs) across England. The five new centres are distributed across the country to provide opportunities for patients in regions across England who may not previously have been able to take…

No evidence blanket ‘do-not-resuscitate’ orders for COVID-19 patients are necessary

DALLAS, May 22, 2020 — It’s inappropriate to consider blanket do-not-resuscitate orders for COVID-19 patients because adequate data is not yet available on U.S. survival rates for in-hospital resuscitation of COVID-19 patients and data from China may not relate to U.S. patients, according to a new article published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes,…

The Lancet: No evidence of benefit for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients

A large observational study suggests that treatment with the antimalarial drug chloroquine or its analogue hydroxychloroquine (taken with or without the antibiotics azithromycin or clarithromycin) offers no benefit for patients with COVID-19. The study analysed data from nearly 15,000 patients with COVID-19 receiving a combination of any of the four drug regimens and 81,000 controls.…

The Lancet: First human trial of COVID-19 vaccine finds it is safe and induces rapid immune response

The first COVID-19 vaccine to reach phase 1 clinical trial has been found to be safe, well-tolerated, and able to generate an immune response against SARS-CoV-2 in humans, according to new research published in The Lancet. The open-label trial in 108 healthy adults demonstrates promising results after 28 days–the final results will be evaluated in…

Platinum-based chemo may improve survival for some metastatic pancreatic cancer patients

Bottom Line: Patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer who had germline or somatic mutations in DNA repair genes had better clinical outcomes after platinum-based chemotherapy, as compared with patients without these mutations. Journal in Which the Study was Published: Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research Authors: The senior author was…

FCC awards Children’s National $928K for regional pediatric telehealth consortium

WASHINGTON – (May 21,2020) — Children’s National Hospital is establishing a regional pediatric telehealth consortium in response to coronavirus with $928,000 in funding awarded by the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau. The funding, which is part of the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, enables the nationally-ranked pediatric hospital to expand its telehealth platform to support…