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Study finds sponsors could do more to support patient recruitment
01 September 2010
Are sponsors doing enough to support their patient recruitment and can outsourcing to a CRO or other external vendor significantly help the process? And when does a sponsor begin to consider using a CRO to help with their patient recruitment? Collecting data from 39 sponsors, 27 CROs and 18 patient ...
Pharma companies outperform CROs in UK drug trials...
Investigator pay findings could increase pressure on CROs...
Exco InTouch snaps up GSK patient recruitment head for global role
01 September 2010
Mobile technology provider Exco InTouch has named ex- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) patient recruitment head Judith Teall as its director of patient recruitment to build its in-house expertise in the challenges of patient recruitment to find new places for its technology services on a global basis. "We ...
Indian CROs insist clinical trial deaths "not alarmingly high"
11 August 2010
Leading CROs say that deaths reported during clinical trials in India still account for just about 1% of the patients participating in these studies, despite the seemingly higher incidence of such serious adverse events (SAEs) in the country over the last six months. These CROs also say that SAEs ...
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
Social media: a storm in an eCup?
22 April 2010
Over the past few years, new methods of communication have been changing the way patients communicate with doctors, doctors communicate with patients, and perhaps most profoundly, the way patients communicate with other patients. Emailing and texting have been around for more than a decade, but ...
EndPoint: Kelvin Logan...
Shifting latitudes: co-ordinating clinical trials in Latin A...
Location, Location, Location
09 October 2009
Geography, and local knowledge there of, can be a huge factor when recruiting patients for clinical trials. Gerard Dunne of New Zealand-based CRO BELTAS raises important recruitment considerations for those planning on conducting trials downunder. Patient recruitment consumes more time than any ...
EndPoint: Christine Pierre
09 October 2009
Christine Pierre founded her company, RxTrials, in 2004. She is the past chair of ACRP, and editorial board member of Clinical Trials Advisor and eCliniqu, a member of the steering committee of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative. She co-authored the book Responsible Research: A ...
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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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