What is a randomized clinical trial? What is a randomized controlled trial? Is there any difference between the two or are they interchangeable? What is the purpose of randomization and how is it done? There are so many questions that spring to mind when it comes to randomization in clinical trials. The short descriptions you find when you search…
Although it appears as an unpleasant but generally tame condition, the butterfly-like facial rash for which it’s known is not the end-all of Lupus. Due to the nature of the autoimmune disease, it can fatally damage important organs and systems, kidney malfunction being the leading cause of Lupus-associated morbidity. And even though clinical trials have proven the efficacy of combined…
Asthma and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) are hard to set apart, because of the similarities they share. Both are diseases related to the respiratory system with common symptoms and even treatments. On World Asthma Day, however, we at FindMeCure would like to dispel some common misconceptions in order to raise awareness of asthma and respiratory conditions in general. It’s…
Called “the royal disease”, hemophilia is widely documented in the courts of European countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries. And, if you follow some conspiracy theories, is even linked to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. The story goes as follows: Queen Victoria herself was a carrier of the disease, caused by genetic mutation and carried through the female…
In the middle of the last century sociologist Erving Goffman came up with the theory of social performativity - the concept that, as Shakespeare said some four centuries prior, we are all actors and the world is our stage. We perform a variety of roles, claims Goffman, in our day-to-day lives: the roles of a parent, a student, an employee,…
I remember that Christmas I spent with my extended family a few years ago, shortly after my grandfather was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. I remember thinking how “normal” he seemed like nothing has really changed. When he mistook me for my mother, I wasn’t fast to lose my positivity - if that was all, I kept thinking, things are not…
