The healthcare industry, medical research and drug approval process are projected to be greatly affected by the federal budget cuts scheduled for March 1, according to a recent article on mondernhealthcare.com. The Budget Control Act of 2011, originally scheduled to...
Two articles in the Hastings Center Report, entitled “Ethical Oversight of Learning Health Care Systems” challenge the current ethical practices for protecting human volunteers in medical studies, according to a recent article on medicalnewstoday.com. The Hastings...
Numerous pharmaceuticals are approved and marketed based on the premise that they favorably change disease state-biomarkers. However, recent data has shown that altering the biomarkers indicative of disease does not necessarily translate to ameliorated health. In an...
One of the greatest challenges of clinical research is patient recruitment and retention according to Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD). To help clinical research professionals improve clinical trial management, Tufts CSDD analyzed more than 150...
A recent article from mobihealthnews.com describes how technology is helping streamline clinical trials by bridging communication between investigators, pharmaceutical companies and participants. Communication between companies and third party investigators is often a...
Huron Life Sciences recently released an article about a recent pilot study conducted by National Cancer Institute (NCI). During the month of October, The NCI conducted a pilot study testing feasibility of using an independent CIRB model. Twenty- four institutions...
