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NASEM Report: Safety and Effectiveness of Ingredients in Compounded Topical Pain Creams

How does available evidence about safety and efficacy inform the use of compounded topical pain creams to treat patients? John Farrar, MD, PhD, served on a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine Committee that has now assessed the data regarding the ingredients in these creams.

THINKER Project Receive AST Innovation Award

Peter Reese, MD, MSCE, and the THINKER project team have received the American Society of Transplantation's Innovation Award for 2020. Read more about the award and about the THINKER project.

NASEM Report Frames Guidelines for Opioid Prescribing

M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, and colleagues on The National Academy of Medicine’s committee on Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Acute Pain have published their report, filled with practical points for researchers. Read or download the free report.

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In the News

COVID-19 Trials: A Teachable Moment

June 2020

The pandemic presents an opportunity to rethink the way we do clinical research, write Stephen Kimmel, MD, MSCE, and collaborators.

Read the opinion piece in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Uber or Lyft During the Pandemic?

June 2020

M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, comments on the safety of ride sharing services during the COVID-19 crisis.

Read the article in The Huffington Post.

COVID-19 Effects of Blood Pressure Drugs Uncertain

June 2020

Jordana Cohen, MD, MSCE, and co-investigator Julio Chirinos, MD, launched an international, multisite study to find out more about how ACE inhibitors and ARBS affect COVID-19. They are cautious about the drugs’ effects until they finish their research.

Read the article in The Washington Post
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How can we answer and anticipate the pressing health issues we face together as a society? At the CCEB we rise to that challenge through research and training in epidemiology and in biostatistics. We solve problems facing patients and populations. MORE

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