Clinical Research- pros and cons

Sep 21, 2008 Views: 579

Hello everyone

I would like to introduce a new discussion group – Clinical Research, it's pros and cons.

A vital part of modern medical research is "clinical research." Although laboratory and animal research are of great importance, it is clinical research that will take a research to the therapeutically area. The findings of the clinical research will eventually answer the question "Does this work?” and “Was it worth it”?" To answer this question, specific conditions or treatments are studied in a Clinical Study or Clinical Trial to understand the nature of a disease or the effectiveness of a drug or medical device.

This niche of scientific research has many pros and cons, as a study “subject”, is not a laboratory model anymore, but us, human being.

As a research scientist I see my potential in contribution to clinical research. But how many of us are actually interested in this contribution; how many “basic” scientists are interested in a carrier in clinical research?

I would like to get your response and comments to the development of this discussion subject.

Thank you

Rina

Comments of this blog: 6 Comments Add Your Comment

R Bishop said:

Rina, Are you asking that we create a new discussion group for Clinical Research?

Posted on Sep 22, 2008 11:46 AM

Rina said:

Yes, I wanted to know if people are interested in a new discussion group for Clinical Research

Posted on Sep 22, 2008 03:19 PM

ramesh padodara said:

Rina,
Yes I am interested in this typr of discussion so please create a new group

Posted on Sep 26, 2008 04:35 AM

Dominiquest said:

i feel clinical trials are needed for a few more years till the most deadly of diseases are conquored. I myself am working on a drug at present and finding a cure for Parkinson's disease. It needs a lot of trial and testing before it can reach the drug stage in a pharmacy... Its illegal to test on human beings and the only other way is animals like albino mice... Till AIDS is wiped out, I think we need to continue with these clinical trials... I'm working on that too right now... When you think about it, Without clinical trials you could never use a drug... We say, "if it worked on that guy it should work on me" this is how everything works... If we just prepare a drug and offer it to someone, he will blindly say no... Its a fact! As far as the question "how many" is concerned, I would like to say that its a wide world and there are some scientists built for each field of science... If all scientists were clinical researchers for example, there would be no physicists or chemists, etc. But it is sure that it is a sought after field...

Posted on Oct 05, 2008 05:04 AM

Dominiquest said:

And yes.... I would be happy if you will open a discussion group for clinical research...

Posted on Oct 05, 2008 05:28 AM

Rina said:

The paradocs of clinical research actually is that “If the drug works for somebody else, it does not necessary work for me”. Variable therapeutic responses in multiple Clinical Trials showed unrecognized disease heterogeneity and actually contributed to the development of a new area of pharmacological research- pharmacogenetics or pharmacogenomics. “Just as genomics is the study of the entire genome while genetics is the study of individual genes, pharmacogenomics looks at inheritable response to drugs over the entire genome while pharmacogenetics identifies interactions between drugs and individual genes”.

Posted on Oct 07, 2008 09:11 AM