CTN Webinar: Identifying, Reporting, and Resolving Adverse Events in CTN Trials.

CTN Webinar: Identifying, Reporting, and Resolving Adverse Events in CTN Trials. – This one-hour webinar, produced by the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Clinical Coordinating Center for CTN members and the public, provides guidelines on methods that have improved adverse event and serious adverse event identification and reporting in behavioral trials. The webinar includes discussion of the clinical and regulatory importance of monitoring safety in research studies; process recommendations for identifying, reviewing, reporting, and resolving safety events; and information about who is resonsible for what, and what resources are available to facilitate the process. The target audience includes novice and experienced CTN or other research staff working in community treatment programs in the substance abuse field. Presented by Blake Apple (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, TX Node), Maria Campanella, RN, BSN (EMMES Corporation), and Robert Lindblad, MD (EMMES Corporation). For more resources related to this webinar, as well as other webinars in this series, visit: ctndisseminationlibrary.org

University of Texas Requires Drug Testing for Nursing Students

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The UT School of Nursing will be implementing a mandatory drug screening beginning next month for students who will be taking clinical programs, one of several types of classes required in the nursing curriculum. According to Linda Carpenter, assistant …
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Texas plan to drug-test jobless seeking aid stirs debate

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It's a battle that has been played out in other states – most prominently in Florida, where a drug-testing program for welfare applicants was stalled by a constitutional challenge saying it amounted to an unreasonable search. Backers of Texas' proposal …
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Two lawmakers want to know how Dallas firm got state anti-cancer money …

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AUSTIN — Two Republican legislators who wrote the law that created Texas' cancer-fighting agency now want to know how and why it approved an $ 11 million grant to a Dallas firm without doing the required business or science review. On Friday, they told …
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