AurouSpeak - The quarterly newsletter from Aurous HealthCare CRO Vol 01 Ed 02 | Page 5

AurouSpeak PARENTS UNAWARE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEIR CHILDREN … To improve healthcare for children, medical research that involves kids is a must. Yet, only five percent of parents say their children have ever participated in any type of medical research, according to a new University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health. In the poll, nearly one-half of parents said they are willing to have their children take part in research that involved testing a new medicine or a new vaccine, if their child had the disease being studied. More than three-quarters of parents are willing to have their children participate in research involving questions about mental health, eating or nutrition. The poll surveyed 1,420 parents with a child aged 0 to 17 years old, from across the United States. According to the poll, parents who are aware of medical research opportunities are more likely to have their children take part. But awareness is an issue: more than two-thirds of those polled indicated that they have never seen or heard about opportunities for children to participate in medical research. Five percent of families with children participating may not be enough to support important research efforts that the public has identified in previous polls - things like cures and treatments for childhood cancer, diabetes and assessing the safety of medications and vaccines. But the results indicate that a much bigger percentage of the public does understand the importance of medical research to advancing healthcare for children. This poll shows that the research community needs to step up and find ways to better reach parents about opportunities for children to participate, answer parents' questions about benefits and risks of participation, and potentially broaden the types of studies available. Ref: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/264610.php 100% PROTECTION FOR MALARIA: EARLY CLINICAL STUDY SAYS… An early-stage clinical trial of an unusual experimental malaria vaccine shows it is safe, generates an immune response, and may provide 100% protection against malaria infection in healthy adults, the best result for a malaria vaccine so far.