• Withings Moves Beyond BMI with New Body Composition Scale

    Apr 02 | Clinical Research News | Body Mass Index (BMI) is a long-used method to measure body fat with the formula kg/m2 (or lbs/in2 x 703 for imperial measurements). While it is a noninvasive and inexpensive way to measure body fat, there are arguments that BMI is inaccurate because it does not include other factors such as fat distribution, muscle mass, and metabolic health. More

  • Challenges and Opportunities for Advancing Health Systems Across Africa: An Activist’s Perspective

    Mar 28 | Clinical Research News | Marieme Ba, CEO of Pharmalys, discusses the underrepresentation of African countries in clinical research. Study protocols she worked on referenced continents, except Africa. Other African countries were occasionally included in clinical trials for infectious diseases, but for the most part, the continent was overlooked. This begs the question: why is Africa not represented? More

  • DiMe Launches Resources Suite, Pistoia Alliance Reducing Carbon Footprint, More

    Mar 27 | Clinical Research News | Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community by the Digital Medicine Society released a suite of resources designed to effectively demonstrate the value of using digital endpoints in clinical trials; The Pistoia Alliance launched the next phase of its project to measure and reduce the carbon footprint of clinical trials; and more. More

  • Follow the Money: Eikon Advances Multiple Programs, Multi-Payload Antibody-Drug Conjugate, More

    Mar 26 | Clinical Research News | Eikon will advance its programs aimed to treat advanced melanoma, as well as breast, ovarian, prostate, pancreatic, and brain cancers; Callio launches with innovative multi-payload programs designed to maximize therapeutic benefit for cancer patients; and more. More

  • Flatiron Health Pioneers International Patient-Level Data Sharing for Oncology Research

    Mar 20 | Clinical Research News | Flatiron Health is breaking new ground in oncology research by enabling patient-level real-world data (RWD) sharing across four countries—U.S., UK, Germany, and Japan. Despite initial skepticism, researchers are now eager to access these harmonized electronic health record (EHR) datasets in a secure, cloud-based environment. More

  • AI Platform Aims to Translate Trial Results at the Point of Care

    Mar 18 | Clinical Research News | For medical oncologists, the clinical quandary in treating patients is whether a newly marketed agent or drug cocktail will work as well as it did for the average cancer patient in a landmark clinical trial. More

  • Navigating the Real-World: How to Better Utilize Real-World Evidence

    Mar 14 | Clinical Research News | Interest in Real-World Evidence (RWE) studies continues to grow. Data from ClinicalTrials.gov shows the number of RWE studies registered has increased dramatically since 2005, particularly in the last seven years. But what is RWE, how is it used in clinical trials and how can we work with Real-World Data (RWD) to produce RWE? More

  • Jumo Health Broadening its Health Equity Approach

    Mar 12 | Clinical Research News | Jumo Health launched a suite of services to drive health equity in clinical trials in 2023 via a collaboration with I Choose Life Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to addressing health disparities in the African American community. It helped the company pilot its first community engagement event in the form of a workshop to train local business and faith leaders to serve as trusted messengers of information about clinical research and the point-of-care experience. More

  • Black Women with Breast Cancer Now Lead Champions of Clinical Trials

    Mar 11 | Clinical Research News | For Black women diagnosed with breast cancer, the grim reality is that they are 41% more likely to die of the disease than white women. African American women are disproportionately affected by triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), the most aggressive form of the disease, but that only partially explains the discrepancy in the mortality rate. More

  • The Scope of Things: Sharing Patient Insights, Absence of Pregnant Women in Clinical Trials, Boosting Cancer Vaccine Work, More

    Mar 06 | Clinical Research News | In this month’s episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz delivers the news on how an AI-powered trial screening tool outperformed human research staff, a strategy report on boosting cancer vaccine work, the issue of continued absence of pregnant women in clinical trials, and more. Plus, Rare Patient Voice founder and president Wes Michael also joins in to talk about how his company is connecting people undertaking research studies with participants eager to share their insights. More
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The Scope of Things podcast explores clinical research and its possibilities, promise, and pitfalls. Clinical Research News Senior writer Deborah Borfitz welcomes guests who are visionaries closest to the topics, but who can still see past their piece of the puzzle. Focusing on game-changing trends and out-of-the-box operational approaches in the clinical research field, the Scope of Things podcast is your no-nonsense, insider’s look at clinical research today.

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