The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been looking into ways to test Electric Health Record (EHR)-to-Electric Data Capture (EDC) approach for clinical trials. The administration believes that this could open up new opportunities for clinical trials through...
Stan Collender, a cancer patient, shares an interesting New York Times op ed piece on why so few cancer patients participate in clinical trials. Stan is a diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma (a rare skin cancer) and is enrolled in a clinical trial with, in his...
Recently, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) sent out a survey to its stakeholders asking for their opinion regarding a new clinical trials database design. The rationale for EMA asking its stakeholders for their opinions is due to new regulations that were created...
This past May 20th was International Clinical Trials Day celebrating the life changing triumphs that result from the efforts accomplished by clinical researchers. Its birth was inaugurated back in 1747 when James Lind pursued a cure for scurvy. BioMed Central...
At the University of South Florida, researchers have been looking into the genetics makeups of different individuals. They believe that people tend to see one and another as one ethnicity, where in reality people come from all different backgrounds. However, at USF...
In March, Apple Inc. introduced ResearchKit, a platform where its users can track personal health data and participate in health studies using their smartphone. Some of the apps include mPower used for Parkinson’s disease, My Heart Counts for cardiovascular disease,...
