inVentiv Health Clinical recently invested in Mytrus, a California based “Virtual Trial” company. Mytrus has previously parted with Pfizer to create REMOTE, an “at home” clinical study of the bladder control drug, Detrol LA. Although the Pfizer study failed to meet...
The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI), a public-private organization created to improve the way clinical trials are conducted, established the Patient Leadership Council (PLC) to involve patient advocates in its objective. The 16 member council composed...
The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (TCSD) has released data showing that between 2004 and 2012 the number of endpoints per protocol has increased from an average of eight per protocol in the earlier period to 14 endpoints in the later period. To read...
Join Pearl staff and clinical research professionals at the MAGI Clinical Research Conference in Boston, May 5-8, 2013. Pearl’s Gretchen Bowker will be presenting “Medical Device Regulations: How device and drug regulations and guidances differ” during the Regulatory...
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...