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...

New clinical trial platforms to help Alzheimer’s

News-medical.net just released an article on the recently launched Global Alzheimer’s Platform (GAP). This program strives to cut time and costs on Alzheimer’s trials. The article cites that Alzheimer’s treatment development costs up to three times the normal cost of...

Electronic tools the future of biopharma’s clinical trial files

Nick Paul Taylor from fiercebiotechit.com provides a unique look at how biopharma companies are moving from paper clinical trial data to electronic files. The article talks about how many vendors are now pushing the electronic filing method for a variety of reasons...

Sicker patients in clinical trials the new status quo

David David Pittman from medpagetoday.com has written an article on FDA’s push to include sicker patients in clinical trials. In the article David brings up the new internal memo that requests drug reviewers to push for a broader population in trials. By doing this it...