Clinical Trials Eyeing Rural America, UA Looks to Expand its Role

By Chris Bryant

A new version of a nasal spray flu vaccine shows greater effectiveness in preventing influenza in test patients than did an injectable flu vaccine, according to data from the new drug’s latest clinical trial.

That data, released in late 2005, came from a study based on more than 8,000 children in 16 countries, including some three dozen patients enrolled via UA’s University Medical Center. Such links between broad-based clinical trials and UA are likely to become more common in the future, according to Dr. John C. Higginbotham, associate dean for research and health policy in UA’s College of Community Health Sciences, a Tuscaloosabased clinical campus of the UA School of Medicine.

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