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New online resource: OncoQuébec

Published: 16 January 2023

  OncoQuébec is a platform that helps Quebecers find all the information in their research for clinical trials in oncology.

McGill spinoff Laurent Pharmaceuticals to begin clinical trial on COVID-19 treatment

Published: 9 April 2020

Company to run a Phase 2 clinical study with LAU-7b, a pro-resolving drug with potential antiviral properties against coronavirus

American Placebo

Published: 6 October 2015

A new study finds that rising placebo responses may play a part in the increasingly high failure rate for clinical trials of drugs designed to control chronic pain caused by nerve damage.

Cancer research plagued by poor study design

Published: 14 October 2015

Badly designed studies may lead to the efficacy of drugs being overestimated and money being wasted on trials that prove fruitless, according to a new study from McGill University in Canada.

Why the bar needs to be raised for human clinical trials

Published: 30 January 2017

Standards for authorizing first-time trials of drugs in humans are lax, and should be strengthened in several ways, McGill University researchers argue in a paper published today in Nature.

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