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Applied Machine Learning for Healthcare and Life Sciences using AWS
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Clinical trials are needed for any type of new medical intervention on humans. This includes drugs, therapies, certain types of medical devices, and procedures. The trials follow a plan or a protocol that is defined by the investigator in a protocol document. Depending on the goals of the trial, a clinical trial might aim to compare the safety and efficacy of a product (such as a drug or a device) or a procedure (such as a new therapy) by comparing it against a standard product or a procedure. In some cases, participants are given a drug with no active ingredient, also known as a placebo, to compare them against participants who receive the new drug. This helps determine whether the drug is effective and is working as expected. For example, a new drug being studied to lower blood sugar is given to some participants who have high blood sugar. This is compared to another set of participants who are given a placebo. The observations from the two...