• New Data Shed Light On T-Cell Response To COVID-19, Other News

    Clinical Research News | New data shed light on the potential variations in T-cell responses as a function of disease severity, an issue that is key to understanding the potential role of immunopathology in COVID-19, and also inform vaccine design and evaluation. Meanwhile, universities are continuing to build out their telehealth capabilities in light of the pandemic. This, plus more, are included in this week’s announcements and updates from the clinical research industry.

    Jul 2, 2020

  • Could Plasma Dilution Be The Answer To Age-Related Diseases—and Cytokine Storm?

    Clinical Research News | Therapeutic plasma exchange, a 30-year-old clinical procedure, could explode in popularity if its mouse equivalent holds true in humans—reduction in damaging proteins that have been implicated in diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and heart failure.

    Jun 29, 2020

  • Socioeconomic Status May Determine COVID-19’s Impact, Other News and Updates

    Clinical Research News | New research indicates that COVID-19 disproportionately affects those of lower socioeconomic status and greater household crowding. Meanwhile, companies are forming a crowd-sourcing initiative to jump start COVID-19 data collection. This, plus more, are included in this week’s announcements and updates from the clinical research industry.

    Jun 26, 2020

  • Dynatrace, Seven Bridges, Trialbee, And More: News From June 2020

    Clinical Research News | June was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from Dynatrace, Seven Bridges, Trialbee, and more.

    Jun 25, 2020

  • The Potential Of Activity Trackers To Bias Study Results

    Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | Blinding data to remove bias is a fundamental principle of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Does the advent of smartwatches, fitness trackers and other wearable technology and health apps mean that steps should no longer be used as an endpoint in RCTs?

    Jun 23, 2020

  • EHRs + Machine Learning Decipher Drug Effects In Pregnant Persons

    Clinical Research News | Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are using a novel, data-driven “target trial” framework to investigate the efficacy and safety of medicines in pregnant populations, who are underrepresented in randomized controlled trials.

    Jun 22, 2020

  • Platform Trials, Patient Connection: The Week’s COVID-19 Updates

    Clinical Research News | Platform trials may speed our race to COVID-19 treatments, argue some researchers. Other researchers are working on ways to make patients feel more connected and less frightened at home. Plus more from this week’s COVID-19 news and research in the clinical research industry.

    Jun 19, 2020

  • Breakthroughs With Telemedicine

    Clinical Research News | The COVID-19 pandemic has created a “Wild West” response from the FDA, institutional review boards, and clinical trial sponsors to keep studies running and patients safe from an invisible enemy. When the dust settles, the industry is unlikely to look the same—and, it is hoped, drug developers won’t need a second scolding from regulators about the virtues of innovation.

    Jun 18, 2020

  • Follow the Money: $100M to Cue’s Health Monitoring System, COVID-19 Vaccine Investments

    Clinical Research News | Cue’s health monitoring system gets an influx of cash and new vaccine funding for GreenLight Biosciences. Plus more of the latest funding updates from across clinical research, life sciences, and diagnostics.

    Jun 17, 2020

  • The Great Experiment In Taking Trials Virtual

    Clinical Research News | The necessity of running clinical studies in the midst of a pandemic broke through some of the longstanding fears of sponsors and contract research organizations about the adoption of telehealth technology and the decentralized trial model.

    Jun 16, 2020

  • Reports Indicate Long-Term Care Facilities Could Be Major Driver In COVID-19 Deaths, Other News

    Clinical Research News | The clinical research community has made progress in the fight against COVID-19. While some organizations and universities has devoted resources to developing a vaccine, others have focused on helping our most vulnerable communities.

    Jun 12, 2020

  • How Building a Clinical Data Pipeline Will Dramatically Improve Data Quality

    Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | Many clinical trials are utilizing new digital data streams, sources, and data types including eCOA, wearables, genomics, biomarkers, images and videos. With these richer datasets come the opportunity for new and multi-faceted insights into patient experiences with a new therapy if the data can be assembled and organized in near real-time and published to key stakeholders.

    Jun 9, 2020

  • FDA Updates eConsent Guidance In Response To COVID-19

    Clinical Research News Brief | Recent guidance updates from the FDA focus on informed consent in light of COVID-19, adding information about electronic signatures for informed consent for clinical trials.

    Jun 8, 2020

  • COVID-19’s Impact on Patients and Clinical Care, Other News

    Clinical Research News | Researchers around the globe are studying how COVID-19 impacts patients and clinical care. Findings include high percentages of asymptomatic patients, how pulmonary embolism in involved in the disease, new data on convalescent plasma, and many concerning updates about decreased cardiac care.

    Jun 5, 2020

  • How Multifactor Authentication Helps Keep Patient Data Private During a Pandemic

    Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | Whether you are a doctor or a patient, the last thing that’s likely on anyone’s mind during a pandemic is data privacy. But just because the economy and our social lives are pretty much on hold because of COVID-19, that doesn’t mean healthcare privacy can afford to be.

    Jun 3, 2020

  • Researchers Continue Treating Patients Amid Pandemic, Other COVID-19 News

    Clinical Research News | This week saw the clinical research community make a concerted effort to continue treating patients amid the COVID-19 pandemic. And in the meantime, COVID-19 related research is still in progress.

    May 29, 2020

  • Research Ethics Knocked Sideways By The Pandemic

    Clinical Research News | Researchers are accustomed to having their ideas held up to scientific scrutiny, and testing and building on each other’s work, because that’s what moves the field toward more accurate explanations for problems and probable solutions. But the academic banter has largely devolved into discourses at the extremes during the current pandemic.

    May 28, 2020

  • NHS, Deep Lens, SDL, And More: News From May 2020

    Clinical Research News | May was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from NHS, Deep Lens, SDL, and more.

    May 27, 2020

  • Study Finds Not Enough Women, Older Adults In Cholesterol Trials

    Clinical Research News Brief | After analyzing the trends in the types of 485,409 people enrolled in 60 studies from 1990 to 2018, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that, although some progress has been made, women and older adults are still vastly underrepresented in lipid lowering therapy trials compared with their disease burden.

    May 26, 2020

  • Trials Reveal New Understanding of COVID-19, And Other News

    Clinical Research News | Researchers have found that COVID-19 patients have a high predisposition to developing blood clots. Elsewhere, teams develop a COVID-19 trial finder. We round up the week’s research and industry news for COVID-19.

    May 22, 2020