The United States “has slowly lost pace with the rest of the world,” when it comes to clinical research, a meeting heard on 7 October.

Jeffrey Drazen, editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, who made the comments, added, “We were at one time seven leagues ahead of everyone else, and now I think we are in a horse race where we can see the competition.” He was speaking at the opening of an Institute of Medicine workshop designed to examine the state of clinical research in the US, to identify strengths and weaknesses, and to consider transformative strategies for improving the ways …