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SCDM updates best practices resource
23 August 2010
The Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM) has updated its Good Clinical Data Management Practices (GCDMP) resource with a new chapter detailing ways of applying project management principles to clinical data management. The not-for-profit organisation has also updated an existing chapter on ...
Japan's clinical data managers benefit from GCDMP translatio...
PharmaNet develops its health economics strategy in Europe...
Trials held back by regulations says Canadian research director
19 August 2010
Overwhelming regulations surrounding the safety of patients in clinical trials is discouraging new studies and could hold back the development of new drugs, according to an article in this July's Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). The editorial was written by CMAJ's editor-in-chief, Paul ...
John Hopkins establishes US academic research network
16 August 2010
The Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR), in collaboration with Anne Arundel Health System (AAHS) and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC), has established a network of academic and community-based clinical researchers, the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research ...
Mobile global investigator network formed to aid patient recruitment
05 August 2010
A new company has been formed to tackle the barriers of patient recruitment for people that cannot travel to study sites. FlexCare Clinical Research 's service model is designed to take the study to the patient, where protocol activities can be conveniently conducted in their home or at other ...
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FEATURES
Emerging markets and the need for training
16 July 2010
The opportunities for CROs and pharma companies in the emerging markets of China, India, the Middle East and Africa are vast and encompass all phases of clinical research. However, international training of clinical research personnel in the industry is urgently needed to cope with the increased ...
Which sponsors run the best trials?: investigators give their opinion
07 May 2010
The challenges of finding, selecting, and recruiting effective investigators, are among the most daunting currently facing organisations running clinical trials. As studies become more complex, often calling for more patients, the issues have only become more acute. Investigators take part in ...
Do investigators really care who they work for?
22 April 2010
Clinical research organisations (CRO) represent an important and growing part of drug development. They are used in a wide variety of settings by pharmaceutical companies to assist in conducting clinical research. The specific tasks may range from handling a single element in one clinical trial, ...
The global market for clinical investigators
15 April 2010
Clinical grant spending represents one of the single largest expenditures in pharmaceutical R&D. Published research shows that there is little to no improved clinical trial performance for drug development organisations that pay clinical grants above the median market rate. Higher paid studies do ...
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PEOPLE
Advanced Clinical names new VP
CRO Advanced Clinical , has named Julie Heneghan as vice-president. Heneghan has been in the outsourcing and staffing solutions industry for more than 20 years. As vice-president, she will be responsible for overseeing the strategic planning and direction of the US Midwest and Eastern division and ...
Outcomes Health strengthens IT team
Outcomes Health Information Solutions , a data abstraction and analytics company working with CROs and pharmaceceutical companies, has named David Jeans as the new vice-president of data management and chief enterprise architect. Jeans is responsible for leading the execution and enhancement of ...
Prism appoints Nigel Brooksby as non-exec chairman
Drug development consultancy Prism Ideas , has appointed Nigel Brooksby , as non-executive chairman. Brooksby has more than 35 years experience in the life sciences industry, culminating in his position as chairman and managing director for Sanofi-Aventis UK and leading the UK's Association of the ...
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COMMENTARY
MHRA Guidance; impacts for the central lab
Our quality assurance officer in Europe, Elizabeth Atkin , and I attended the MHRA conference – GCP for Clinical Laboratories – Clinical Pursuits in York, England, at the beginning of the year. The various sessions throughout the day provided comprehensive overviews of how the clinical trials ...
As Scott Reuben faces jail, just how common is fraud in clinical trials?
Last month, the prominent and pioneering anaesthesiologist Scott Reuben , chief of acute pain at Baystate Medical Centre , was sentenced to six months in prison for falsifying the data in, or entirely inventing, dozens of clinical trials. In the end, what caught Reuben was an audit of two papers ...
As wages increase, is China still a good location for clinical trials?
The recent condemnation by Charles River Laboratories ' largest shareholder of that company's proposed acquisition of the leading Chinese CRO, WuXi PharmaTech , raised questions about whether companies are being too optimistic about the potential of China as a location for clinical research and the ...
Publication bias on the agenda again
IQWiG , the German health technology assessment institute, has renewed its call for legislation to make the prospective registration of clinical trials mandatory and to compel trial sponsors to publish the full results of all trials in a results database. The demand comes in a new study, published ...
Decision time: how to take the EDCTP forward
A proverb attributed to the Chinese philosopher Lao Tsu says: give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. That sentiment could well be applied today to the provision of medicines for diseases that predominantly affect resource-poor countries, ...
Challenges and breakthroughs in IBD
Inflammatory bowel disease is a term used to cover two specific conditions that are both chronic diseases that affect the gastrointestinal tract – Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. The main difference between them is the area of the gut that they affect. In Crohn's disease, the inflammation ...
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