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Clinical trials and the diversity principle If they were ever really hidden, 2020 revealed the expensive-sounding problems limiting diversity in clinical trials. Solutions are overdue. by Harry Yeates, Strategy Director, Langland For years, maybe decades, a few minutes in PubMed or Google has provided all the evidence the interested observer needs to learn that there’s a problem with the equitable representation of diverse people in clinical trials. It reaches across various aspects of demography – including age, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status and geography – and is particularly visible when it comes to minority populations. For those people, the lesson has been rather more tangible – in the absence both of clinical trials themselves as a care option, and medicines proven to be effective for them. ....
Will your clinical trial blend? By Harry Yeates Since 2006, Tom Dickson, the founder of US liquidiser brand Blendtec, has demonstrated the superiority of his machines by using them to reduce unlikely objects – from iPhones, to a skeleton, to a model stormtrooper from Star Wars – to dust. As if the latest object might finally prove to be the Blendtec’s undoing, he starts each of the 187 videos on his YouTube channel with the same tantalising question: ‘Will it blend?’ It’s arguable whether a blender really needs to be able to whizz up a lightbulb, but what is it for, ultimately, except blending? If it can make a glow stick smoothie then it’s just better than one that can’t. That’s the whole idea behind the hyperbole meets reality recipe, and despite the silliness there is power in the question. Is your service, or product, or idea, up to scratch? Does it meet the full definition? Does it blend? ....