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...

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...

Costs of Drug Development Revisited

Yevgeniy Feyman of Forbes has written an intriguing article entitled “Shocking Secrets of FDA Clinical Trials Revealed” the costs of bringing a new drug to market.  Feyman shares that “according to Joseph Dimasi of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development,...

Support the “OK to Ask” campaign

Many doctors already discuss clinical research with patients, but in a recent study, only 21% of patients felt comfortable asking about research to their doctors.  The National Health Service, (NHS) is looking for patients and professionals to either ask or talk about...