CLA Honors Seminar in Clinical Trials - Spring 2009


School of Public Health


Division of Biostatistics


Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort, and wealth - Robert Orben

Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, lucky for you, I happen to be a quack. - (A cartoon by Richter).

These are the good kind of mushrooms. From: Famous Last Words Quotes.


A clinical trial is an experiment in which the guinea pigs are human beings. This seminar will explore scientific, statistical, ethical, and policy issues regarding clinical trials, primarily through a series of examples of historic clinical trials of the 20th and 21st centuries.


Notes for this course:

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  • Forms Design Principles
  • Lumpectomy Paper - NEJM, 1985


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