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The NIH has released a new policy on training in Good Clinical Practices (GCP) for NIH-funded investigators and staff. Effective January 1, 2017, this policy applies to all NIH-funded investigators an...

Released on September 16, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule on requirements for registering specific clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov and for releasing su...

MedStar Health Research Institute (MHRI) was one of the first institutions to register for a new agreement to facilitate faster start-up times for clinical research sites.MHRI administrative staff has...

After the initial shock of finding out that you have prostate cancer, you will probably think of multiple questions for the surgeon. A question we are frequently asked is whether surgery is the only c...

Our associates were given a rare glimpse into a museum 100 years in the making on a special afternoon in January, celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was an uplifting program featuring a performance by Mosaic Harmony and a presentation by Mary Elliott, a museum specialist with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Head and neck cancers include a range of conditions such as sinus cancer or cancers of the throat or voice box. What can make these tumors a unique challenge is that they are invariably located near a...