FDA finalizes Guidance for Electronic Informed Consent

December 2016 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized its guidance intended for institutional review boards (IRBs), investigators, and sponsors engaged in (or responsible for) oversight of human subject research under the Department of Health and Human...

Drug companies seek more clinical trial volunteers

Among the many obstacles drug companies face in bringing a product to market, recruiting clinical trial volunteers has become increasingly difficult, according to  a recent article on www.washingtonpost.com by Lenny Bernstein. Bernstein states that more than 10% of...

Physicians push to increase hispanic enrollment in clinical trials

Elizabeth Allen of The Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at The University of Texas Health Science Center posted a news release emphasizing the importance of clinical trial enrollment among the Hispanic population, which is currently an astoundingly low...