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Wired August 24, 2009 Steve Silberman	Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. The fact that taking a faux drug can powerfully improve some people's health -- the so-called placebo effect -- has long been considered an embarrassment to the serious practice of pharmacology.
AskMen.com Matt Wilson	How To: Take Part In Psychological Studies Psychology is a vast domain that contains many disciplines. As a result, psychological tests are as far-ranging as the field of study they represent. Personality psychology studies personality traits and behaviorism.
AskMen.com Richard Stevens	Participating In Clinical Trials Check out what participating in clinical trials involves and how you can join a study. You may even make some cash in the process.
Reason October 2007 Ronald Bailey	Is Industry-Funded Science Killing You? The overrated risks and underrated benefits of pharmaceutical research "conflicts of interest."
Wired April 24, 2007 Josh McHugh	Drug Test Cowboys: The Secret World of Pharmaceutical Trial Subjects A full-time medical test subject, Nick F. has earned $80,000 participating in some two dozen studies.
Salon.com August 2, 2001 Ivan Oransky	Human guinea pigs When people put their bodies on the line in medical trials, can they be sure that scientists aren't cutting corners or preoccupied with stock prices?
Chemistry World April 2006 Karen Harries-Rees	Editorial: Drugs Testing on Trial A drugs trial in the UK that went disastrously wrong last month has raised questions about the ethics of using paid volunteers in clinical trials and the usefulness of animal testing.
Energize February 2014 Susan J. Ellis	It's Time to Discuss the Complex Relationship of Volunteering and Money We constantly fight the attitude that "volunteers are free," but money is connected to volunteering in complex ways.
AskMen.com Joshua Levine	Selling Your Body To Science Have you ever thought about the number of voluntary patients who basically sell their bodies to clinical trials in the name of science? Well, the number is staggering and it can reach well into the thousands. The main reason being the large paycheck that comes with the job.
Energize October 2012 Susan J. Ellis	Practicing What We Preach: Volunteers Helping Us, Too One of the enduring mysteries of the volunteer management field is how often those who lead volunteer efforts do not build a team of volunteers to help them in their important work.
Wired March 2006 Jennifer Kahn	A Nation of Guinea Pigs There's a new outsourcing boom in South Asia - and a billion people are jockeying for the jobs. How India became the global hot spot for drug trials.
Energize November 2010 Susan J. Ellis	When Volunteers Resist Change Always remember that volunteers bring their own perspectives and stereotypes about volunteerism to their service. Here are some ways of thinking that reflect a lack of training or understanding.
Energize December 2009 Susan J. Ellis	When the Ax Falls: Budget Cutting and Volunteers Can an organization turn to volunteers to fill gaps when budgets are cut and employees laid off?
Energize June 2013 Susan J. Ellis	Stop Volunteers from Being Their Own Worst Enemies Maybe we need to educate volunteers about who they are and how they fit into our organizations. If we wrongly assume that volunteers "get it," we open ourselves to potential problems of various sorts.
Energize August 2011 Susan J. Ellis	I'll Never Understand Why Executives Still Don't Understand Here is the most succinct set of arguments for not ignoring volunteer involvement.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Brian Orelli	And You Thought Biotech Was High-Risk, High-Reward Large clinical trials make cardiovascular drugs risky, but the rewards are there, too.
Energize April 2012 Susan J. Ellis	Common Sense and Volunteer Involvement I am very interested in what you have to share as your examples of lack of common sense when it comes to decisions affecting volunteers.
Energize July 2011 Susan J. Ellis	Needed: A Multi-level Approach to Credentialing Volunteer Management Volunteer management has been an "emerging profession" ever since I've been in the field -- which is now 40 years.
Energize February 2010 Susan J. Ellis	Both Receiving and Giving Conspicuous by their absence, particularly in human service agencies, are volunteers with a direct, personal connection to the work of the organization
AFP eWire July 31, 2006	Online Volunteering: Factors for Success A new study examines the potential benefits of cultivating online volunteers and the necessary infrastructure and capacity organizations need to effectively employ these volunteers.
Energize June 2006 Susan J. Ellis	Wouldn't It Be Nice to Really Know.... Trends in volunteering are reported largely based on observation and anecdotes rather than on hard data.
Energize May 2013 Susan J. Ellis	Strategic Volunteer Management: Expanding Your Organization's Brain The problem in volunteer management is not that our organizations are without strategies of various sorts; it's that volunteers are not naturally integrated into those strategies even as an operational tactic.
Energize October 2009 Susan J. Ellis	Taking the Client's Perspective in Designing Volunteer Roles We are simply missing the boat by not directing volunteers into work that is of greatest value to the users of our services right now.
Bio-IT World March 10, 2003 Dawn Stover	E-Recruitment: Trial by Wire Online databases are helping patients find clinical trials -- but e-recruitment is no panacea for participant shortages.
Energize October 2011 Susan J. Ellis	What Leaders of Volunteers Can Do To Gain Executive Attention This month, I am turning the spotlight 180 degrees to examine how leaders of volunteers contribute to the problem of not getting enough attention from higher-ups.
Energize December 2012 Susan J. Ellis	End-of-Year Reports Can Illuminate Volunteer Achievements The invisibility of volunteers in many agency reports is matched only by the presentation of generally useless information about volunteers in other reports.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	When Researchers Attack, Investors Lose Drug investors have to watch out for a lot of things that can change their stock's price: earnings reports, clinical trial results, competitor's results, and FDA decisions.
Energize February 2006 Susan J. Ellis	The Fair Labor Standards Act and Other Obstacles to Progress As advocates for volunteer engagement, we need to approach specialized counselors as equal team members, remembering that we, too, have expertise to offer.
Energize August 2014 Susan J. Ellis	Identifying Who Is and Is Not a "Volunteer" I suspect that every reader has engaged in this sort of discussion/debate/argument more than once.
Energize December 2014 Susan J. Ellis	What Did You and Volunteers Do Well this Year? 2014 is rapidly coming to an end. Before you consider making any resolutions for the new year, use December as an opportunity to reflect on the past 12 months.
Energize November 2011 Susan J. Ellis	Part-time Volunteer Management Means Equally Limited Volunteer Involvement, It is hardly news that the majority of people who lead volunteer involvement are expected to do so part-time.
Energize Susan J. Ellis	Volunteering and Employability: Cause or Effect? Most of us in volunteer management support the observation that volunteering builds resumes, provides career exploration, and demonstrates each volunteer's abilities, but can we make the case that volunteering directly affects employability? And is that the point?
Energize December 2011 Susan J. Ellis	My Personal "State of the World's Volunteering" Report On December 5th, International Volunteer Day, United Nations Volunteers is set to issue its State of the World's Volunteering Report, officially bringing to a close the 2011 International Year of Volunteers + 10.
AFP eWire March 1, 2004	Many Nonprofits Using Volunteers Ineffectively A joint study by the UPS Foundation, the Corporation for National and Community Service and the USA Freedom Corps has revealed that 80 percent of nonprofits rely on volunteers for critical activities, but admit they do not have the resources or knowledge to manage them as they might like.
Energize June 2012 Susan J. Ellis	Why Do We Love Volunteer Satisfaction Surveys? How did we arrive at this particular method of assessing success with volunteers? Do such surveys reveal anything meaningful about the value of volunteer contributions?
Energize Susan J. Ellis	Should We Cap the Number of Hours a Volunteer May Serve Each Week? New volunteers may start off gung-ho and promise many hours before they know what they will experience. So I like the practice of setting an initial limit of maximum time until the situation evolves and looks to be successful.
Energize January 2012 Susan J. Ellis	What Would the Perfect Volunteer Involving Organization Look Like? Here is what I think an organization would look like if it practiced everything we preach about creative, welcoming, and effective volunteer management, led by a skilled director of volunteer involvement.
The Motley Fool February 16, 2010 Brian Orelli	For Blockbuster Cancer Drugs, Approvals Are the Easy Part Don't get too excited. As an investor, you can lower your risk by investing in cancer drug companies after a clinical trial success but before an FDA approval, but you'll also reduce your reward.
Energize Susan J. Ellis	Prospective Volunteers Are Closer than You Think Ask yourself what you have done in the last year to make sure that you are really issuing an invitation to become a volunteer to the people in greatest proximity to you.
Energize February 2005 Susan J. Ellis	Why Can't we Make Progress on Public Perceptions About Volunteering? Until it becomes important for any sort of application to list and describe one's community service as well as one's employment history, the public will continue to think these are done by two separate groups.
Chemistry World July 25, 2006 Bea Perks	Clinical Chaos Under Scrutiny Clinical trials of new drugs need to be tightened up, according to an expert group convened in the aftermath of UK trials that left six people fighting for their lives.
Energize May 2007 Susan J. Ellis	Make New Friends, but Keep the Old... For volunteer organizations, it is important to find ways to revitalize the involvement of inactive members.
Energize November 2012 Susan J. Ellis	The Perfect Volunteer Storm What can we observe in all of this outpouring of time and effort for the presidential election and for Hurricane Sandy and what implications can we see for calmer times? Let's do some analysis from our volunteer leadership perspective.
Energize January 2010 Susan J. Ellis	Differentiating Volunteering and Working for Pay The distinctions between the two groups are vital because we need both for different reasons.
The Motley Fool March 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	Look for Companies That Strike First Head-to-head trials, whether they're run by companies or by third parties, can be scary. But the way to make big money is by selling drugs that offer superior benefits, so investors should welcome the onslaught of upcoming comparative trial data.
Energize June 2005 Susan J. Ellis	Mobile Volunteers - `Tis the Season In the past, one simply wished vacationing volunteers a good time and hoped they'd return in a few months. But if the person is going to have access to a computer and the Internet while away, consider a virtual assignment.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Ken Getz	Building Clinical Trial Awareness for Patients: Why Not Try the Pharmacist? The author explains how building a stakeholder outreach agenda around the community pharmacist can lead to a better outcome in managing the complex ins and outs of a trial protocol.
Energize April 2011 Susan J. Ellis	Celebrate Collective Accomplishments, Not Volunteered Time Volunteer recognition is a powerful tool for leaders of volunteers that remains largely underutilized.
Energize April 2009 Susan J. Ellis	Confidentiality and Other Objections to Volunteers It's easy for staff in our organizations to stop any creative idea involving volunteers from going forward. They just have to raise one of the following objections:
Energize July 2010 Susan J. Ellis	The Correlation between Time Donors and Money Donors All research shows that people who volunteer tend to give more money to charity than people who do not. This often-quoted finding only tells part of the philanthropy story.