It’s Not a One Size Fits All Approach: Best Practices for Engaging Minorities with SCD in Health Research
Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, PhD
World Sickle Cell Awareness Day is an opportunity to call attention to the need for engaging patients in health research.
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Top 10 Social Media Recruitment Rules
Aimee Edgeworth
So you want to recruit study volunteers through social media? Here are 10 tips that you need to know BEFORE you recruit!
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Google Has a Powerful New Data Playground for PhDs and MDs to Target Patients, Individuals at Risk and Consumer Trends.
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Google Trends provides a powerful new platform to look at regional data using their search term database. Use it to figure out if your patients are getting the information they …
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An Unexpected Career in Sex and Gender Biology
Dawn Newcomb, PhD
I transitioned to studying how sex hormones drive inflammation. That’s unusual, but it shouldn’t be.
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Lupus Research on World Lupus Day: April Barnado
Rebecca Helton, MA
In honor of World Lupus Day, we talked to April Barnado, a K12 scholar who is developing methods to use the electronic health record to study outcomes in systemic lupus …
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TB Research on World TB Day: Yuri van der Heijden
Rebecca Helton, MA
In honor of World Tuberculosis Day, Dr. Yuri van der Heijden talks about his TB research and offers advice to those working toward career development awards.
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Translational Newbies: Awesome FREE Advice
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Do you have great patient recruitment skills and not-so-cutting-edge tools to look at outcomes? Do you worry that your basic science model won’t hold up in a clinical trial? …
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Back to Her Roots: Natasha Halasa
Rebecca Helton, MA
By studying respiratory illness and acute gastroenteritis in young children, Dr. Halasa is improving the lives of children in both the United States and Jordan.
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The Recruitment Tool You Didn’t Know You Have
The Edge for Scholars
If you are based at one of 135 US institutions and you recruit human subjects, you need to check out ResearchMatch.org to find potential research participants from a growing pool …
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Sharing Data May Make It Less Accurate for All of Us
Rebecca Helton, MA
Lots of you work with big data that gets ever bigger. Here’s something to chew on as you add more databases and studies to the pile. [Scientists are] finding …
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