The Obama administration is publishing new rules to help doctors and patients learn if clinical trials of treatments worked or not.
At issue is how to help people find medical studies that may be appropriate for them – and then to make the results public so that successes can reach patients more quickly and what fails isn’t duplicated.
Federal law requires reporting the results of certain studies on a government website. But that reporting often doesn’t happen, especially the failures.
On Friday, federal health officials released updated requirements on listing studies and posting results. Researchers that don’t meet the requirements for reporting results may face fines or lose taxpayer grants.
MONTCLAIR, N.J. – Students walking in the footsteps of the second man to step on the moon cheered as their New Jersey school was renamed after the famous alumnus.
Montclair’s Mt. Hebron Middle School on Friday became the Buzz Aldrin Middle School.
Aldrin reminisced as he credited his experience at the school with fueling his interest in science and math.
The West Point and MIT graduate followed Neil Armstrong down the ladder of the lunar module to walk on the moon in 1969.
Aldrin also visited Hackensack UMC Mountainside Hospital, where he was born in 1930
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