Volume 11, Issue 4

Sougata Sarkar, Vartika Srivastava, Chaitali Patanayak

pp. 129–133 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.JPP_79_20 · 2021

The traditional clinical trial is a rigid channel of drug development process. After successful Phase 1 trials and Phase 2 trial with sufficient efficacy and safety, the drugs goes into Phase 3 trials, where it is compar…

Swetabh Verma, Marya Ahsan

pp. 134–139 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.JPP_116_20 · 2021

Objective: To compare the topical and oral ivermectin (IVM) in the management of scabies. Materials and Methods: An open-labeled parallel randomized trial was conducted among patients of scabies. Group A (n = 51) receive…

Anuhya Vinayaka, Shubha Sheshadri, Sharath P. Madhyastha, Ganesh V. Shetty, Charan Thej Reddy

pp. 140–141 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.JPP_29_20 · 2021

Treatment of schizophrenia has taken so many turns, and adverse effects of the drugs still continue to remain as a hurdle in the management. Clozapine is considered to be the better promising drug in the treatment of par…

Harivenkatesh Natarajan, Jayanthi Mathaiyan, Raveendran Ramasamy

pp. 142–144 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.jpp_171_20 · 2020

A bioethics training workshop for Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) members was organized on 16th–17th September 2019 at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry in South India i…

Jayanthi Mathaiyan, Harivenkatesh Natarajan, Narayanan Parameswaran, C. Suthakaran

pp. 145–147 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.jpp_172_20 · 2021

A series of panel discussions were conducted as part of the 2-day workshop on medical research ethics, organized for Ethics committee (EC) members at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Researc…

Jayanthi Mathaiyan, Prasanth Ganesan, Tamilarasu Kadhiravan, Nishanthi Anandabaskar

pp. 148–150 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.jpp_173_20 · 2020

Medha Rajappa, Jayanthi Mathaiyan, Rajendran Priyadharsini

pp. 151–153 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.jpp_174_20 · 2021

It is mandatory for all ethics committees in India reviewing biomedical and health research studies to register with the Department of Health Research (DHR) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. This informati…

Jayanthi Mathaiyan, Narayanan Parameswaran, Harivenkatesh Natarajan, R. Raveendran

pp. 154–156 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.jpp_175_20 · 2021

Informed consent process is becoming more challenging these days with researchers involved in collecting data during complex situations like an emergency or an epidemic. Other concerns are about translating into local la…

Subitha Lakshminarayanan, S. Sandhiya, Jayanthi Mathaiyan, Reba Kanungo

pp. 157–159 · DOI: 10.4103/jpp.jpp_176_20 · 2021

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) ethical guidelines 2017 had for the first time introduced the chapter on public health research, which is a replacement of the chapter on epidemiology in the previous version. In…