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The coronavirus outbreak has limited in-person research, highlighting the need for more flexible, participant-friendly research models that can be conducted virtually.

Former FDA Commissioners Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, and Scott Gottlieb, MD, made recommendations for how the FDA should respond to the novel co

A paper recently published in JAMA Cardiology details the design of ADAPTABLE, a DCRI-led pragmatic clinical trial that uses many novel elements to efficiently answer a question that has substantial impacts on public health. ADAPTABLE seeks to determine the optimal dose of aspirin for patients with heart disease. Although aspirin has been used as a secondary prevention method for nearly three decades, the question of whether low-dose or high-dose aspirin is more beneficial remains unanswered.

The study sought to simultaneously test a method for identifying individuals at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease while testing the efficacy of a potential treatment aimed at targets affecting cell

A report from an NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory roundtable recently published in 

Although initial results from SECURE-PCI suggested that patients treated with periprocedural loading doses of atorvastatin and undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) experienced a reduced risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), extended follow-up showed no significant difference. The 12-month results, which were recently published in JAMA, expand upon the initial study, which followed patients for 30 days.

A recently published paper details the development and design of the FDA-funded Pediatric Migraine Registry, which has enrolled around 200 patients between the ages of 4 and 17.

The DCRI’s Sunil Rao, MD, writes that to deliver high quality care, interventional cardiologists must constantly evaluate their practice and learn new techniques and skills.

From thought leadership on a national stage to driving adoption for digital health technologies, the DCRI is leading the way in the digital therapeutic space.

Resuscitation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest should not be administered using a one-size-fits-all approach, especially when treating older patients, according to an editorial in