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Click the title above for a link to open the Applied Clinical Trials May 2024 issue in an interactive PDF format.

In recognition of International Women's Month, we're featuring this recent talk between Associate Editor Miranda Schmalfuhs and Marie Teil, Global Head of UCB’s Women of Childbearing Age Program. They speak about the specific challenges women with chronic illnesses face when accessing appropriate treatment and participating in clinical trials, UCB's Women of Childbearing Age Program and it’s most successful strategies, and much more.

Once-weekly subcutaneous injection of CT-388 produced significant weight loss in healthy adults with obesity compared with placebo across 24 weeks in an early phase trial.

In recognition of Women's Health Month, we're featuring this recent talk between Associate Editor Miranda Schmalfuhs and uMotif's Chief Product Officer, Julia Lakeland, discuss new technologies improving patient engagement and reducing the emotional and logistical burdens of participation, ethical considerations that should be addressed when implementing those technologies, while ensuring patient privacy, and much more.

Sharing an entertaining dive into the origins, milestones, and future of behavioral economics—where lessons can be applied to clinical practice.

Leqembi (lecanemab-irmb) was previously granted fast track designation by the FDA for a subcutaneous version of the drug to treat Alzheimer disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment or the mild dementia stage of the disease.