Biostatistics

UAMS, Hendrix College Team Up to Offer Unique Degree Program (KARK Little Rock)

9 Jul 2008

A joint agreement between the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Hendrix College will allow undergraduate students at the four-year college to begin earning credit toward a Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree.

Worldwide Clinical Trials Emerges as Leading Global Contract Research Organization (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

9 Jul 2008

Worldwide Clinical Trials, Inc., formed by Dr. Neal R. Cutler and a team of scientists, today reached a milestone in establishing itself as a premier global contract research organization with the announcement that it has closed the acquisition of MediQuest, a contract research organization providing specialized clinical development services to biopharmaceutical companies.

Survival Benefit Lacks For Some Prostate Patients Given Hormones (Medical News Today)

9 Jul 2008

New research to be published in tomorrow's issue of JAMA (Vol. 300, No. 2) by a team of investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), shows a lack of survival benefit for older men with localized prostate cancer when administered a common therapy. At focus is a treatment known as androgen deprivation therapy, which shuts off male hormones known to promote growth of the disease.