Breast cancer patients use behavioral health app for research

Wearables, such as the Apple Watch, are becoming more commonly used in clinical research, as mentioned in a previous blog post. Most recently, as stated by Stacy Lawrence of Fierce Medical Devices, researchers at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper are using the...

New clinical trial regulation provides positive outlook for EU

In a recent article on Outsourcing Pharma, Dan Stanton discusses the new EU clinical trial regulation and it’s intention to simplify the approval process in hopes of making the EU more accessible and desirable for clinical research. The new regulation will take action...

Inclusion of women in clinical research still too small

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report in regard to women in clinical research. While past efforts by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have increased the number of women involved in research, further changes are still necessary....

Income differences driving participation in clinical trials?

Mary Engel, writer for Fred Hutch News Service, stated the importance of clinical trials and patient involvement in her recent article. Participation in clinical trials is crucial to the development and success of finding new treatments because they are currently the...