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Deakin University academic Dr Martin Hirst to learn his fate after tweet suspension (Website)

Uploaded 04 Sep 2017

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This web link presents the news report about Deakin University academic Dr Martin Hirst accused of serious misconduct due to some tweets.

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e-Recruiting: Using Digital Platforms, Social Media, and Mobile Technologies to Improve Clinical Trial Enrollment

Uploaded 04 Sep 2017

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This White Paper discusses how more and more, companies are setting aside myths and misconceptions to embrace e-recruiting and the media and platforms that engage patients and caregivers as never before. These companies are meeting their recruitment targets, doing so fast and efficiently and realizing both significant productivity gains and cost savings. 

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How social media improves clinical trial recruitment

Uploaded 04 Sep 2017

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This web link provides insight into growing patient engagement in emerging markets through social media activation technology. 

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Science communication toolkit (Website)

Uploaded 04 Sep 2017

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This web link provides practical tools developed by experts to help science communicators, researchers, journalists and policy makers add quality, impact and influence to their science engagement activities.

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Pharma gets social: How Novartis is transforming clinical trials with social media (Website)

Uploaded 04 Sep 2017

This resource is to complement your learning, and introduce you to other perspectives on the topics under discussion. In this article Daniel Ghinn spotlights how this pharma company is facilitating take up of clinical trials via website tools and Twitter feeds.

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Site Management Series: Using Social Media for Recruitment in Clinical Trials (PART 2): Responsibilities, Regulations and Due Diligence (Website)

Uploaded 04 Sep 2017

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This weblink discusses what needs review and approval in regards to creating a social media recruitment campaign . When digital media initiative such as recruitment via a social media inclusive system is implemented, sites must prepare accordingly and ensure commitment to the development, implementation and ongoing maintenance of an integrated Quality Management System for social media usage. Commitment to these responsibilities will ensure site compliance with statutory legislation, regulations and guidelines that govern Human Research Standards.

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Alan Alda on the art of science communication: ‘I want to tell you a story (Website)

Uploaded 04 Sep 2017

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Alan Alda is known to many people as the actor in the US television series M.A.S.H and later in The West Wing. But he’s also passionate about science and is the visiting professor at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, at Stony Brook University in New York. Alan visited Australia to help spread his message about the importance of communicating science and he spoke with Will Grant and Rod Lamberts from the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the ANU.

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IRB review of the use of social media in research

Uploaded 04 Sep 2017

This resource is to complement your learning, and introduce you to other perspectives on the topics under discussion. This paper discusses how Social media outlets are revolutionizing the ability of study sponsors and researchers to conduct clinical trials, but the FDA and the OHRP have provided little guidance on their use.

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Clinical Trials 2.0: Reinventing Research For The Social Age (Website)

Uploaded 04 Sep 2017

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This web link talks about how clinical research is no longer the sole preserve of clinicians and researchers, the Internet and new digital technologies are reinventing the way in which patients take part in the clinical trials process.

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Scientists who tweet (Website)

Uploaded 04 Sep 2017

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In this web report 3 Fred Hutch researchers talk about getting #science out into the world, 140 characters at a time.