Clinical studies is medical research involving people. Clinical studies are research studies performed in people that are aimed at evaluating a medical, surgical, or behavioral intervention. They are the primary way that researchers find out if a new treatment like…   Read more»

Placebo Controlled Trials are incredibly important to the validity of research done in clinical settings. To answer your question of why they are necessary, many subjects in a study would be greatly influenced by the group of the study they…   Read more»

Informed consent is crucial in clinical trials and medical research. Like stated in the question, this could end up being a disservice to the larger scientific field in the instance that a person such as Henrietta Lacks were to check…   Read more»

For most cases, single blind studies suffice for removing bias from the study. As the main reason for skewed data would stem from if subjects knew whether or not they had been given a placebo. However, in many cases, researchers…   Read more»

It is very important to have consent from the patient. Today, not only in medicine but also in other fields, consent to use a users information is a must. When you sign up for Facebook, you’re consenting to Facebook using…   Read more»

PCTs are definitely ethical and necessary. The placebo effect is real so to ensure that it is not what is making the cause of a change in a person’s health due to a medical device or drug, it needs to…   Read more»

I think for the most part, everyone is in agreement that the Right to Try act is good thing; it gives people who are close to losing hope a chance to try something risky but potentially life saving, and as…   Read more»

Single Blind study is the one where only the Patient is not aware as to what drug he is getting, while in Double-Blind Study both the investigator as well as the patient is not aware of the drug being the…   Read more»

Update to the topic:The right to try law passed in May 2018 has only 2 patients as of June 2019 being accepted for experimental therapy.Even I see no negative issues with the law and ideally, more people should have made…   Read more»

Placebo-controlled trials are the trials where we place a dummy device on a group of patients randomly selected individuals.I feel it is ethical and is necessary for studies as mentioned by Dr.Simon in his video that the information provided to…   Read more»

In a single blind study, the participants in the clinical trial do not know if they are receiving the placebo or the real treatment. In a double blind study, both the participants and the experimenters do not know which group…   Read more»

The Principal Investigator is responsible for the management and integrity of the design, conduct, and reporting of the research project and for managing, monitoring, and ensuring the integrity of any collaborative relationships. Principal Investigator retains ultimate oversight responsibility even when…   Read more»

Biomedical engineers serve a coordinating function, They using their background in both engineering and medicine, Biomedical engineers are employed in industry, in hospital, in research facilities of educational and medical institutions. They work with doctors, therapists, and researchers to develop…   Read more»

For me it would be an old indian Add. during 90s of a washing detergent called “Nirma”, it got so famous that washing detergent in general was being called by the name nirma. It featured men/women in bright clothes followed…   Read more»

This all depends on the person and what they like. Due to the development of social media and the internet. Advertisements have changed and it has such a diverse form as well. I am not a big fan of advertisements…   Read more»

Even for me marketing is best when you are actually honest aand truthful to the customer and give them the actual details and information and tell then about the uniqueness of the product. These days, where we are living in…   Read more»

A lot of marketing espcially these days applys a lot of what is being researched in the psychological field. These days a lot of advertisements are made with a psychological research background. Human brains are complex especially the unconsciousness of…   Read more»

In my personal opinion I would say it depends upon a lot of factors, if the person is slightly interested to even listen to the sales person then I would say he/she could be manipulated by the sales person by…   Read more»

I feel like the greatest advertisement that I have ever seen (and is still running the same commercial) is Empire Today. Not only did this commercial have one of the most catchiest tunes I have ever heard, but the animations…   Read more»

It happens all the time. Large companies will use any tricks up there sleeves to make a person by a product. I would say that these days its almost true that you do not really need an outstanding product to…   Read more»