VA Diversity In Clinical Trails w_audio (Vcr) KG TUE AM
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>>U.S. FDA Pushes To Improve Diversity In Clinical Trials
(undated) -- There are federal moves in the works to enourage and improve racial diversity within drug clinical trials in Virginia. Katie Gray explains.Preview: VOICER SCRIPT:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now recommending steps to expand drug and medical device trials in efforts to prioritize characteristics of the patient population they aim to treat. The agancy's suggestions to researchers include drafts on how to set goals for study enrollment, separated by age group, ethnicity, sex and race, and describe how they intend to meet those goals. Officials tells reuters the main objective is to improve the composition of researched population and to increase participation by some groups including Black Americans.