NIH may be the next to join Apple and Google in using technology (i.e. smartphones) to help gather information for clinical trials. This new step for the NIH came under the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). President Obama hopes the PMI will “bring us...
Ken Getz, assistant professor at Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD), reports that oftentimes procedures performed in the last drug development stages are in order to find “supplementary, secondary, tertiary, and exploratory endpoints.”...
Researchers are increasingly using the Internet as a means of conducting research. However, the question arises, how accurate and safe is this forum for collecting data? According to an article on Post-Gazette.com, author Tracie Mauriello notes that this is a topic of...
Single IRB – A Guide to the Common Rule sIRB Mandate
The sIRB requirement is active. Is your study affected?
