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They need to start sharing
clinical
trial data, and in doing so, create a rising tide that could lift all boats, not just for the industry but for humanity.
Well, here I can't help but think of the groundbreaking
clinical
trials recently conducted at East Carolina University that showed that online games can outperform pharmaceuticals for treating
clinical
anxiety and depression.
It's very, very costly, and that means that, outside the
clinical
trials, it's just never done.
So these voice-based tests, how do they stack up against expert
clinical
tests?
We can perform low-cost mass recruitment for
clinical
trials, and we can make population-scale screening feasible for the first time.
Now, at the time of receiving that message, I was on sabbatical from my
clinical
work, setting up CanDo, a start-up determined to address this imbalance and enable local responders to provide health care to their war-devastated communities.
And we did this because we think that it's actually going to allow us to realize the potential, the promise, of all of the sequencing of the human genome, but it's going to allow us, in doing that, to actually do
clinical
trials in a dish with human cells, not animal cells, to generate drugs and treatments that are much more effective, much safer, much faster, and at a much lower cost.
Without needles and radioactivity, without any kind of
clinical
reason, we can go down the street and record from your friends' and neighbors' brains while they do a variety of cognitive tasks, and we use a method called functional magnetic resonance imaging.
And when they tried to get a hold of the
clinical
study reports, the 10,000-page long documents that have the best possible rendition of the information, they were told they weren't allowed to have them.
It's something that protects us from harm, from hucksters, from people that would try to hoodwink us into a
clinical
study that we don't understand, or that we don't agree to.
And so you put together the thread of narrative hypothesis, experimentation in humans, and informed consent, and you get what we call
clinical
study, and it's how we do the vast majority of medical work.
Clinical
studies form the basis of how we investigate, so if we're going to look at a new drug, right, we test it in people, we draw blood, we do experiments, and we gain consent for that study, to make sure that we're not screwing people over as part of it.
But the world is changing around the
clinical
study, which has been fairly well established for tens of years if not 50 to 100 years.
And the
clinical
methods that we've got aren't very good at studying that because they are based on the idea of person-to-person interaction.
The technology between these two pictures cannot be more different, but the methodology for
clinical
studies has not radically changed over that time period.
And so if you think about it, the depressing thing is that Facebook would never make a change to something as important as an advertising algorithm with a sample size as small as a Phase III
clinical
trial.
People you don't know come in and look at you and poke you and prod you, and when I tell cancer survivors that this tool we created to protect them is actually preventing their data from being used, especially when only three to four percent of people who have cancer ever even sign up for a
clinical
study, their reaction is not, "Thank you, God, for protecting my privacy."
I've actually started what we think is the world's first fully digital, fully self-contributed, unlimited in scope, global in participation, ethically approved
clinical
research study where you contribute the data.
And so all of these things are part of the
clinical
study that we've created, so you can actually come in, all you have to be is 14 years old, willing to sign a contract that says I'm not going to be a jerk, basically, and you're in.
Another concept is the digital
clinical
chart, which sounds very obvious if we were to talk about real patients, but when we talk about works of art, unfortunately, it's never been tapped as an idea.
You know, if you ask somebody to go to bed with you, and they say, "No, thank you," you certainly don't kill yourself or slip into a
clinical
depression.
You go from drug formulation, lab testing, animal testing, and then
clinical
trials, which you might call human testing, before the drugs get to market.
It would be like having a
clinical
trial on a chip.
And so thinking about the models that we've just discussed, you can see, going forward, that tissue engineering is actually poised to help revolutionize drug screening at every single step of the path: disease models making for better drug formulations, massively parallel human tissue models helping to revolutionize lab testing, reduce animal testing and human testing in
clinical
trials, and individualized therapies that disrupt what we even consider to be a market at all.
Six years ago, at the time of her HIV diagnosis, she was recruited to participate in the
clinical
trial which was running in her health district at the time.
Now during the
clinical
trial, she'd been given all her antiretroviral drugs free of charge, and her transportation costs had been covered by the research funds.
Now, I have shared this story with you as an example of what can happen to participants in the
clinical
trial when it is poorly conducted.
Maybe it would inform clinicians around the world on how to improve on the
clinical
management of HIV patients.
I do not stand here today to suggest in any way that conducting HIV
clinical
trials in developing countries is bad.
On the contrary,
clinical
trials are extremely useful tools, and are much needed to address the burden of disease in developing countries.
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