• 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

  • Insights From COVID-19 Studies, And Other News

    Clinical Research News | New evidence may explain why men are more vulnerable to COVID-19 than women. An association between low average levels of vitamin D and high numbers of COVID-19 cases, and more. We round up the week’s research and industry news for COVID-19.

    May 15, 2020

  • FDA Guidance: Q+A on Clinical Trial Operations Amidst COVID-19

    Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | The Food and Drug Administration, like everyone one in American society today, is having to adapt its oversight and enforcement of clinical studies to be more flexible while still protecting the safety and rights of study participants and staff. This is clearly harder than it sounds.

    May 13, 2020

  • COVID-19 And Cancer: Global Snapshot of Patient Experiences

    Clinical Research News | Oncology specialists working in pandemic hot spots around the world shared their experiences in treating COVID-19 infection in patients with cancer at the virtually held 2020 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

    May 12, 2020

  • Virtual Trial Now Enrolling To Exploring Immune Response to COVID-19

    Clinical Research News | Adaptive Biotechnologies, in partnership with Microsoft, has begun enrolling a virtual clinical study, ImmuneRACE, to rapidly map and measure the immune response to the COVID-19 virus.

    May 11, 2020

  • Ethical Framework for Clinical Trials for COVID-19 And More

    Clinical Research News| Data emerges from the US and France exploring the safety issues of hydroxychloroquine, and research looks at how cancer patients are faring COVID-19. Arizona State University tracks SARS-CoV-2 mutations, and new data is released on anticoagulants. Clinical trials look at how the disease impacts the kidneys and who is most likely to be infected. We round up the week’s research and industry news for COVID-19.

    May 8, 2020