Episode: 38 - Tackling the Misinformation Epidemic with Briony

In this episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz brings you the news on a precision medicine initiative in Sweden integrating research with healthcare, newly available cardiometabolic clinical data registries for real world evidence projects, updates to guidelines on the reporting of clinical trials, AI improving the monitoring of movement disorders, and the best-yet biomarker for stroke and dementia risk. Joining the conversation is Briony Swire-Thompson, director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab at Northeastern University Network Science Institute, to discuss the current misinformation epidemic and how clinical trials and sites can best deal with it. 

News Roundup 

  Precision Omics Initiative Sweden (PROMISE) 

• Correspondence in Nature Medicine  
• Article in Clinical Research News  

Cardiometabolic clinical data registries 

• Article in Clinical Research News 

New CONSORT reporting guidelines  

• Article in JAMA 

VisionMD for analyzing motor function 

• Article in Nature 

Best-yet biomarker for stroke and dementia risk 

• Article in Diagnostics World News  

The Scope of Things podcast explores clinical research and its possibilities, promise, and pitfalls. Clinical Research News senior writer, Deborah Borfitz, welcomes guests who are visionaries closest to the topics, but who can still see past their piece of the puzzle. Focusing on game-changing trends and out-of-the-box operational approaches in the clinical research field, the Scope of Things podcast is your no-nonsense, insider’s look at clinical research today.