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Declaration of Helsinki revised
The Council of the World Medical Association (WMA) released draft revisions to the Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) early in April, according to a recent article from outsourcing-pharma.com. The DoH was last revised in 2008 and establishes the ethical principles of...
Pearl teams up with Hoosiers Work for Health
Pearl announces its partnership with the Hoosiers Work for Health coalition. Hoosiers Work for Health is the Indiana chapter of a national initiative that unites health consumers, biopharmaceutical company employees, vendors, suppliers and other business and community...
New website maps clinical trial locations for perspective participants
The non-profit Biomedical Research & Education Foundation created a user friendly website, MyClincalTrialLocator.com to help patients find local trials. The website is formatted to run on a mobile device and it features mapping technology that shows patients where...
Tufts CSDD suggests ways to optimize clinical protocol complexity
Research conducted by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) found that protocol complexity correlates with longer clinical study times and poorer patient recruitment. Therefore, drug development companies are working to increase clinical trial...
The Office of Human Research Protections questions informed consent in recent study
The Office for Human Research Protections discovered that a study involving premature babies did not disclose potential risks of the associated treatment with the involved families as indicated by a recent article published April 11, 2013 in the New York Times. The...