• Closing the Gender Diagnostic Gap With a Sample-Collecting Tampon

    Clinical Research News | Women’s health startup Daye is on a mission to bridge the gender diagnostic gap with a tampon for the self-collection of vaginal and cervical fluids analyzed for biomarkers of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including human papillomavirus (HPV). The tampon is a familiar device used by over 90% of the female population and much better suited to their anatomy than conventional vaginal swabs.

    Sep 10, 2024

  • uMotif Buys ClinOne

    Clinical Research News | uMotif has acquired site platform provider ClinOne. The acquisition is the logical next step in a successful two-year strategic partnership between the companies to leverage a single, integrated solution for electronic clinical outcomes assessments (eCOA) and electronic informed consent (eConsent) technology. Financial details were not released.

    Sep 9, 2024

  • SEQSTER and PatientsLikeMe Partner for Connected Patient Hub With Real-Time EHR Data

    Clinical Research News | SEQSTER and United Healthcare Group’s PatientsLikeMe (PLM) announced their strategic partnership to accelerate the patient screening process, improve the patient onboarding experience to increase retention and engagement, and provide more resources and tools for condition-specific communities.

    Sep 5, 2024

  • Quality of Life Measures to Become Commonplace in Cancer Clinical Trials

    Clinical Research News | A first-ever nationwide clinical trial examining the health-related quality of life (QoL) trajectory of young Hodgkin lymphoma patients undergoing treatment is “on the cusp of a new wave of measurement that is far more accessible and interpretable” for cancer patients and their physicians than clinical measures like number of relapses and overall survival.

    Sep 3, 2024

  • Follow the Money: Oncology, Autoimmunity, Breast, Prostate Clinical Trials, T Cell Products, More

    Clinical Research News | Third Arc Bio plan to advance through clinical studies to address significant unmet needs in oncology and autoimmunity; Halda Therapeutics are looking to advance two RIPTAC candidates into clinical trials for patients with prostate cancer and breast cancer; Outpace Bio will advance multiple programmed T cell product candidates to early clinical proof-of-concept for the treatment of solid tumors; and more.

    Aug 29, 2024

  • Easing Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trials, Training the Scientists of Tomorrow, More

    Clinical Research News | myTomorrows and Pancreatic Cancer Europe have announced a new partnership to equip patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals with up-to-date, accessible information about pre-approval treatments that may be relevant to them; the National Institutes of Health has awarded the Ohio State University a $4.38 million grant to support newly trained clinician-scientists for careers in medical research; and more.

    Aug 28, 2024

  • Walgreens and BARDA Enter Partnership to Progress Decentralized Clinical Research Program

    Clinical Research News | On Monday last week, Walgreens and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced a strategic partnership to further the Decentralized Clinical Operations for Healthcare and Research (D-COHRe) program.

    Aug 27, 2024

  • Fighting the Next Emerging Viral Outbreak: Key Ways to Improve Vaccine Access in Low-to-Middle-Income Countries

    Clinical Research News | n a post-pandemic environment, we know the emergence of another viral risk is inevitable. As such, the broader healthcare ecosystem has evaluated insights from drug development efforts in recent years to develop a shared focus on improving vaccine readiness and equitable access by populations of low-to-middle income countries, or “LMICs.”

    Aug 23, 2024

  • NIH Launches Native Collective Research Effort Focused on Overdose

    Clinical Research News | Last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched the Native Collective Research Effort to Enhance Wellness (N CREW) Program, an effort support Native American communities to lead public health research to address overdose, substance use, and pain, including related factors such as mental health and wellness. The planned program funding totals approximately $268 million over seven years.

    Aug 20, 2024

  • PCORI Announces $165 Million In Funding For New Health Research

    Clinical Research News | The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has approved funding awards totaling more than $165 million for new patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER), as well as research to improve methods and strengthen the science of engagement in patient-centered CER.

    Aug 15, 2024

  • First Clinical Trial of ‘Paradoxical Intervention’ for Cancer to Begin Soon

    Clinical Research News | Cancer cells are “not like superheroes that have no vulnerabilities.” Most current therapies try to block the signaling to prevent cancer’s uncontrolled division, but inevitably tumor cells resist the blockage and become far less responsive to subsequent therapy.

    Aug 14, 2024

  • Follow Five Best-in-Class Technology Practices for Improved Data Management Outcomes

    Clinical Research News | In today's data-driven world, clinical trials rely heavily on effective data management to ensure the accuracy and integrity of research findings. Improved data management outcomes ultimately benefit the primary beneficiary—the patient.

    Aug 13, 2024

  • Policy Change Alone Won’t Achieve Equity in Clinical Trial Participation

    Clinical Research News | A federal mandate that all state Medicaid programs cover the routine costs of participation in clinical trials could have a “meaningful impact” on equity in study participation. The focus should now be on ensuring states collaborate with frontline clinicians to ensure they are aware of the latest Medicaid policy change, and that those who “disproportionately treat patients from minoritized communities are plugged into relevant trial networks and able to refer patients to [applicable] trials.”

    Aug 8, 2024

  • Safe and Intriguing ‘Nature’s Drugs’ Taking on Complex Diseases

    Clinical Research News | The cost of bringing a drug to market has, by some estimates, ballooned to $3 billion and the central problem could be the “misapplication of technology.” Since completion of the Human Genome Project, the focus had shifted heavily toward orphan drugs with a single genetic target, suitable only to highly targeted genetic technology platforms.

    Aug 6, 2024

  • Leveraging Advanced Technologies for Clinical Trial Success

    Clinical Research News | Clinical trials are a crucial step to advancing healthcare and bringing new treatments to patients. However, drug development is a lengthy, expensive, and high-risk proposition, and, according to PhRMA, a process that can take up to 15 years with an average cost exceeding $2 billion per new medicine.

    Aug 2, 2024

  • Trials ‘Still Largely White and Largely Male’ Due to Hidden Biases

    Clinical Research News | Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) may need some serious revamping, based on mounting evidence of systemic biases afflicting the entire enterprise. Despite decades of efforts to realize equitable participation by marginalized groups, notably women and people of color, RCTs are “still largely white and largely male.”

    Jul 31, 2024

  • Youth Diabetes Researchers Invited to Dip Into POND, Make a Hypothesis

    Clinical Research News | Soaring rates of youth prediabetes and diabetes over the past few decades have prompted a multidisciplinary team of experts from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) to create a dataset unifying potentially important clues about how to personalize interventions and devise better prevention strategies.

    Jul 30, 2024

  • Walgreens Receives Project Award, Oracle Announces New AI Capabilities for Trials, N-Power, Merck Collaborate on Oncology Clinical Research, More

    Clinical Research News | Walgreens received a project award valued up to $25 million through the Rapid Response Partnership Vehicle to conduct a Phase IV observational clinical study focused on assessing Correlates of Protection; Oracle announced new capabilities in its AI-supported Oracle Argus and Safety One Intake solutions to help life science organizations meet evolving regulatory requirements and the rising volume of adverse event case workloads; Merck and N-Power Medicine has collaborated to enable a greater number of oncologists—and the patients they care for—to participate in clinical research; and more.

    Jul 25, 2024

  • Cardurion Pharmaceuticals’ Cardiovascular Trials, Cancer Resisting Monoclonal Antibodies, More

    Clinical Research News | Cardurion Pharmaceuticals raises $260 million to support later-stage clinical trials with the company’s two lead drug candidates; CatalYm adds $150 million for phase 2b studies targeting checkpoint-naive and second-line treatment settings for solid tumors; and more.

    Jul 24, 2024

  • Revolutionizing Clinical Trials with Generative AI

    Clinical Research News | The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI (GenAI), are enabling broader technology acceleration and driving a significant transformation in the healthcare industry. This democratization of AI capabilities opens the door to widespread innovation across clinical trials and drug development and represents a unique change in thinking compared to previous technological advancements.

    Jul 19, 2024