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Racial Diversity in Clinical Trials

Clinical trials have a diversity problem – despite making up 40% of the US population, people of color sometimes represent only about 10-20% of clinical trial enrollments. This can result in misleading conclusions about how therapies will ultimately perform across different demographics. Black communities, in particular, have had to endure mistreatment in clinical trials historically,… Continue reading Racial Diversity in Clinical Trials

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Addressing the Knowledge Gap among Rare Disease Patients

By Kartik Ramkumar, Patient Success Manager at Leapcure In some of my patient conversations, what stands out the most is the stress and frustration in their voice. They share their symptoms (often chronic or difficult) and express their frustration with misdiagnoses and the lack of available answers to why they are experiencing certain symptoms. Sometimes,… Continue reading Addressing the Knowledge Gap among Rare Disease Patients

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Leapcure’s Three Pillars of Clinical Trial Recruitment

If you work in clinical research, you know that one of the most difficult parts is enrolling a sufficient number of patients into a clinical trial. Beyond finding patients that are diagnosed with a potentially rare condition, there are inclusion and exclusion criteria that can narrow the field of eligible patients much further – sometimes… Continue reading Leapcure’s Three Pillars of Clinical Trial Recruitment