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2004:
Hour One: Clinical Trials Registration / Bioterrorism Preparedness/ Nuclear Terrorism
Three years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, how prepared are we now for the threat of a bioterror or nuclear attack? Have plans and programs put in place following the attacks three years ago helped the country's first responders and medical system be more prepared to face the aftermath of an attack? And how prepared are we to stop certain kinds of attacks, such as nuclear terrorism, from happening at all?
Plus, this week a consortium of leading medical journals announced that they would no longer publish papers containing data from clinical trials that had not been registered in a central database. The policy change is seen as a move to prevent the publication of only 'positive' data from clinical trials, a phenomenon that can make a drug or technique seem more effective than it truly is. We'll talk about the policy change, and what it means for researchers and drug companies. Call in with your questions and comments at 1-800-989-8255 (2-3 Eastern), and share your opinions online in our Listeners' Lounge (registration required).
Guests:
Catherine DeAngelis, MD
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of the American Medical Association
Chicago, Illinois
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Stephen Morse
Principal Investigator and Director
Center for Public
Health Preparedness
The Mailman School of
Public Health and New
York City Department of Health
Columbia University
New York, New York
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Graham Allison
Author, "Nuclear
Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe" (Times Books, 2004)
Douglas Dillon Professor of Government
Director, Belfer Center for Science
and International Affairs
John F. Kennedy School of
Government
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This segment produced by Karin Vergoth
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Related Links:
Clinical
Trial Registration: A Statement From the ICMJE http://www.clinicaltrials.gov
The Committee on Energy and Commerce
New
Database Provides Doctors and Patients Unprecedented Access to Clinical
Study Information for Marketed Medicines
Pharmaceutical Research and
Manufacturers of America, PhRMA Home ...
news@nature.com
- Medical journals tackle biased reporting of results
Top
medical journals to require trial registration
CDC
Emergency Preparedness & Response Site
MedlinePlus:
Biodefense and Bioterrorism
Ready.gov
- Be Informed - Nuclear Blast
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