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Quintiles forms Digital Patient unit
04 January 2012
Quintiles has formed a Digital Patient unit, which will bring together the company’s online communities and digital experiance to directly engage patients. The goal of this new organisation is to provide patients with information to better manage their personal health and to provide them with ...
Indian trial guidelines call for settlement of claims in 90 days
08 December 2011
India's draft guidelines on compensation for research related injury has called for the settlement of claims made by research participants within a "reasonable" time-frame not exceeding 90 days, with a provision for approaching an arbitration committee to resolve disputes concerning the amount of ...
GlobalCare expands into India and Russia
20 June 2011
GlobalCare Clinical Trials (GlobalCare), a company that specialises in visiting patients at a location convenient for them to encourage participation in clinical trials, is to expand its services to Russia and India. With this expansion, GlobalCare now provides services to over 25 countries ...
BBK partners with online patient recruiter
14 June 2011
BBK Worldwide , a patient recruitment company, has partnered with an online health platform, PatientsLikeMe , to jointly offer their services to pharma companies and other industry stakeholders interested in enhancing patient recruitment and retention for ongoing and upcoming clinical research ...
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FEATURES
The European guide to paediatric assent
24 November 2011
Working across the many and varied countries within the EU can bring many barriers to success. Each country has its individual stipulations that, if not adhered to, can put a stopper in clinical trial progression. Dr Daniela Kösling and Dr Karen Menke of Premier Research take a closer look at how ...
Transforming clinical trials through CRO-ePRO partnerships
19 September 2011
Recent outsourcing trends in the pharmaceutical industry have meant CROs have been given more responsibility than ever before for complete studies. Gregg Jewett explains why new partnering patterns make a CRO-ePRO alliance more valuable than ever. A recent survey by CRF Health indicated the ...
Spanning the spectrum
19 September 2011
Traditionally white populations are diversifying on a daily basis, and drug sponsors and CROs are taking action to represent this change in clinical trials, not just for ethical and medical reasons, but for a very important business rationale. Pial Ganguli reports. In the North Carolina town of ...
Banking on patient recruitment
19 September 2011
It is widely known that patient recruitment is one of the most costly parts of initiating a clinical trial. In this age of austerity, Pial Ganguli investigates whether it is possible to do more with less. Patient recruitment is one of the aspects of conducting a clinical trial that has many a ...
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PEOPLE
Exco InTouch hires CTO
Exco InTouch , a provider of mobile patient engagement and communication solutions has hired Madhav Vattikuti as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Vattikuti’s role will see him use his significant technology expertise and background to strengthen delivery and development of Exco InTouch’s market ...
Chiltern adds therapeutic experts to team
The CRO Chiltern International has hired Drs Marcelo Piccirillo and Carlo Lanza to its medical teams. Dr Piccirillo will serve as senior clinical research physician with special emphasis in developing the gastroenterology therapeutic area. He has 20 years experience in the medical and clinical ...
Henauer joins i3 as head of resourcing
PharmaNet/i3 , inVentiv Health’s clinical segment, has hired Dr Stephan Henauer as executive director, i3 Pharma Resourcing. In this role, Dr Henauer will provide leadership for PharmaNet/i3’s staffing business in central, eastern and northern Europe. Prior to joining PharmaNet/i3, Dr Henauer was ...
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COMMENTARY
Deals to drive innovation for the next three billion
Deals such as ICON’s recent acquisition of BeijingWits Medical Consulting not only reflect the opportunity presented by emerging growth markets but also the need for local knowledge to conduct business effectively and tailor new product development to local market needs. We expect more deals to ...
Prepare for the regulatory revolution
Every medicine has associated side effects, or adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The European Impact Assessment Report on Pharmacovigilance (PV) estimated that approximately 5% of all hospital admissions are due to ADRs and that ADRs are the fifth most common cause of hospital death, accounting for an ...
CROs: focus on therapeutic areas for project gains
Lifestyle, living standards and longevity will all play their part in the disease profile of the future global population. Aligned with these factors is the shifting market for pharmaceuticals, an increasing proportion of profits will come from outside of the US and Europe as the developing world ...
Navigating the sea of data protection law in European clinical research
In Europe, there is a common set of rules that regulate the collection, use, and sharing of personal data. These include strict protection of sensitive data such as health data. However, individual European countries have interpreted and implemented the rules on the use of health data in clinical ...
Lean strategies for R&D partnership transformation
Lean methods for transformation, believes Deloitte 's Julian Remnant , could form a foundation for multi-company collaborations that might define the next generation of industry partnerships. In my April column, I recognised the benefits R&D organisations have realised from the first generation of ...
Delivery partners will have opportunity to shape sponsor IT strategy
Information technology investments in R&D will begin to target the ‘value analytics’ agenda, believes Deloitte 's Julian Remnant , and to do so, he suggests sponsors will increasingly draw on their delivery partners to shape operational IT strategy. The last ten years has seen industry-wide IT ...
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Partnerships in Clinical Trials
04 March 2012
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