Doctors Key Part Of Initiative To Better Represent Minorities In Clinical Trials
The California Medical Association Foundation is launching a program to make sure minorities are aware of the research opportunities that exist for them.
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Initiative Aims To Get More Minorities In Clinical Trials
Last year, 76 percent of clinical trial participants were white, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Latinos, African Americans and Asians have long been underrepresented in these trials. The California Medical Association Foundation and its Network of Ethnic Physicians Organizations (NEPO) hope to change that through an initiative to educate them on the benefits of drug trials. (Johnson, 4/5)
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UCSF Study: Special Video Game May Help Reduce ADHD
After playing a special video game for four weeks, a group of children with sensory processing dysfunction who also suffered from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder showed such noticeable improvements in attention span that a third of them no longer fit the criteria for ADHD, according to a new study. In the UC San Francisco report, which appeared Wednesday in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, researchers measured the impact of cognitive training on attention spans among 38 children with the dysfunction, and compared them with 25 typically developing children of the same age and gender. (Seipel, 4/5)