Medicines can affect people differently and must be tested among each potential patient group— by race, gender, age, and ethnic background— ... Read More
Clinical Trials
A Clinical Trial Saved My Life: Surviving Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Mel Mann shares his personal story of survival after being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in 1995. Given only three years left to ... Read More
Clinical Trials & Targeted Therapy: How Black Breasties Can Get Access To Better Treatment
Breast cancer is a devastating disease that affects millions of women worldwide. Among the different subtypes, triple-negative breast cancer ... Read More
This Clinical Trial Is Making HIV Treatment Easier for Black People
Black Americans are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS in the United States, facing a staggering 42 percent of new HIV infections ... Read More
A Clinical Trial Extended the Life of Women With Hard-to-Treat Breast Cancer
An experimental hormone therapy pill has shown promise in extending the lives of women with tough-to-treat advanced breast cancer, a new ... Read More
How Social Media and AI Are Transforming Clinical Trial Recruitment
Lupus continues to affect racial and ethnic minority groups at disproportionately high rates, yet these same communities remain ... Read More
The Importance of Clinical Trials (Q&A)
BDO- Ellis Dean: Tonight we're going to be talking about a solution to getting better medications, to getting better treatments for our ... Read More
Clinical Trials: Are They Safe?
What is a clinical trial? With the coronavirus pandemic looming large in our nation and around the world, there are researchers and ... Read More
The Importance of Lung Cancer Screening
Sponsored by Merck Did you know that more people die from lung cancer than from colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined? Lung cancer ... Read More
I Have a Rare Disease. Here’s Why I Chose to Do a Clinical Trial as a Black Woman
My name is Tasha White, and I was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis at the young age of six years old. Myasthenia gravis, or MG for short, is ... Read More
I Did An Eczema Clinical Trial and Found Healing and Purpose
When I was diagnosed with atopic dermatitis as a kid, I never imagined that decades later, my healing journey would lead me to participate ... Read More
This Clinical Trial Offers New Hope for Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a common health problem that can lead to serious conditions like heart disease, stroke, ... Read More
