• 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

  • Functional Service Provision, Full Service Outsourcing Models Have Key Roles to Play in Outsourced Drug Development as Clinical Trials Evolve

    Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | Recent developments have seen hybrid models come into the market as service providers seek to both align their products with customer wishes but also gain competitive advantage.

    May 6, 2020

  • A Push To Address Issue Of Diversity In Clinical Trials

    Clinical Research News | Researchers have noticed a lack of diversity when it comes to patient engagement for clinical trials. Several initiatives have taken steps to address this dilemma.

    May 5, 2020

  • Follow the Money: Digital Twins, Real World Patient Recruitment, More

    Clinical Research News | New life sciences fund closes in Europe, and big investments in Trialbee’s RWD patient recruitment, Unlearn.AI’s digital twins for study control arm, and much more.

    May 4, 2020

  • Recent Studies From China Suggest Possible COVID-19 Treatments: Updates On Research Community’s Response To The Virus

    Clinical Research News | The clinical research community is continuing to gain momentum as it searches for solutions to COVID-19. This week brought several new insights to the table, including recent studies suggesting potential treatments for the virus and strategic plans for accelerating COVId-19 research.

    May 1, 2020

  • COVID-19, CluePoints, AiCure, And More: News From April 2020

    Clinical Research News | April was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from CluePoints, AiCure, as well as recent attempts to combat COVID-19.

    Apr 29, 2020

  • Colonbiome Project: Pilot Finds Two Sequencing Methods Compatible

    Clinical Research News | A growing body of research points to the potential of gut microbes as markers for early diagnosis of severe illnesses, including colon cancer. For researchers with the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute and Catalan Institute of Oncology in Barcelona, the collection of gut microbiome data is just the starting point for the vast statistical stew they’ll eventually be mining for answers.

    Apr 28, 2020