Researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science center created a website to enhance recruitment during a multi-center trial to study women who suffer from vulvar pain. The website contained prescreening questions as well as informational videos targeted to...
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...
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 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...
A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found that the use of a risk-based algorithm to monitor clinical studies reduced the deployment of research associates and targeted more high-risk patients and sites. Although CROs and sponsors have been hesitant to use...
