Happy Holidays from Sense About Science USA

Sense About Science USA would like to wish you and yours a happy, healthy holiday and new year. It’s been a productive first year here at SAS USA. We head into 2016 grateful for what we’ve been able to accomplish—thanks to the help of many generous supporters—and...

AllTrials Centerpiece of New Online Course

AllTrials will be a centerpiece of a new online course taught by the University of Miami and called Health Information Exchange. Students of this course, aimed at nurses and medical professionals, will learn how clinical trial transparency is still a heated debate...

A Big Leap For Medicine: AMA Embraces Trial Reform

The largest association of medical doctors and students in the US, the American Medical Association (AMA)—which represents over 228,000 current healthcare providers—will decide in the coming weeks whether to publicly support the AllTrials campaign for clinical trial...

Pulling No Punches on the Need to Fix Science

A tweet by William Lee (@wildscrutineer) hit the mark: “No punches being pulled at #METRICSconf15: Need to fix science before the ppl who pay for it reali[z]e what bad deal[s] they get.” Hosted by the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University (METRICS),...

The Dream of Precision Medicine; The Reality of Missing Data

To understand the revolution of precision medicine, think of a library not unlike the library of Alexandria in its scope. It would contain all the robust and relevant medical data in the known world—which in this case would comprise over a million Americans—and it...