Since the 1990s, both small clinical and several larger scale pharmaceutical trials have used carotid artery IMT as a surrogate endpoint for evaluating the regression and/or progression of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

The demand for human test subjects has grown so much that the so-called contract research industry has emerged in the past decade to recruit volunteers for pharmaceutical trials.

ENROLLING human beings as research subjects for pharmaceutical trials has always been controversial, particularly since the 1950's when the horrific consequences of the drug thalidomide in pregnant women became clear.

The indirect rate is approximately 30% for pharmaceutical trials and can be upwards of 50% for federal trials, depending on the AMC's federally negotiated indirect costs rate [1].

These same properties make it the preferred form of hydrazine for dietary supplements and pharmaceutical trials.

Once a secretary, she says she now helps support herself by volunteering for pharmaceutical trials for serious diseases.

Bridges, tunnels, pharmaceutical trials, geographic exploration, and of course wars.

A life in which it isn't public knowledge that a series of disastrous pharmaceutical trials permanently and hideously rewired you.

As a child, Laney was the subject of pharmaceutical trials which damaged his nervous system.

When a grieving mother loses her son to an illegal pharmaceutical trial her desperate want for revenge leads her to the G8 Summit with a vial of small pox infected blood.