• Clinical Research Community Continues Consorted Effort To Address COVID-19

    Clinical Research News | As world governments continue to address the spread of COVID-19, the clinical research community is looking for ways to manage and treat for the virus as well. Recent efforts include studies related to children infected with the virus, a COVID-19 convalescent plasma study, and much more.

    Apr 24, 2020

  • ACCESS Initiative Connects Investigators To Homebound Americans For COVID-19 Research

    Clinical Research News | Medable has announced a multi-company research framework to accelerate development of diagnostics and treatments for COVID-19. The ACCESS initiative—American COVID-19 Collaborative Enabling Seamless Science—provides a mobile consumer application and secure infrastructure to quickly connect millions of home-bound Americans with health researchers and clinical trial teams.

    Apr 23, 2020

  • Trial Disruptions In Uncertain Times: Q&A With 4G’s Barry Moore

    Clinical Research News| Study sponsors are facing an unprecedented level of clinical supply disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We spoke to Barry Moore of 4G Clinical for insights on the current struggles of clinical supply study managers, innovations being deployed and ways to build a more resilient supply chain for future trials.

    Apr 21, 2020

  • Cytel, UPMC, And More: Clinical Research Community Continues Fight Against COVID-19

    Clinical Research News | The clinical research community continues to aggressively research and innovate for SARS-CoV-2 solutions. The latest this week includes many COVID-19 trials, patient registries, PPE exchanges, and much more.

    Apr 17, 2020

  • Exploring Convalescent Plasma For COVID-19 Treatment

    Clinical Research News| In our pell-mell race to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and how best to treat the disease it causes, researchers all over the world are exploring how blood plasma from patients who have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 might help others who are sick.

    Apr 16, 2020

  • Clinical Trial Participation Act Aims To Ease Patient Reimbursement For Trials

    Clinical Research News | A non-profit foundation is spearheading legislation that give thousands of underserved and hopeful cancer patients access to clinical trials and potential life-saving drugs.

    Apr 15, 2020

  • NIH Launches Nationwide COVID-19 Antibody Testing Study

    Clinical Research NewsThe National Institutes of Health announced a new study last week to determine how many adults in the United States without a confirmed history of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), have antibodies to the virus indicating a prior infection.

    Apr 14, 2020

  • NIH, AWS, PatientSource, And More: Clinical Research Community Rallies Against COVID-19

    Clinical Research News | The SARS-CoV-2 virus is serving as a rallying cry across the clinical research landscape, inspiring creative new solutions, partnerships, and ideas to address the outbreak, treat and prevent the disease it causes, and address the life adjustments of our new normal.

    Apr 10, 2020

  • Applying AI To Clinical Data: Pfizer’s Approach to Identifying Use Cases

    Clinical Research News | The machine learning capabilities of four companies were put to the test in a first-of-its-kind hackathon organized by Pfizer late last year where the singular goal was to see whether artificial intelligence (AI) could predict and identify data discrepancies from datasets of 30 completed clinical trials.

    Apr 9, 2020

  • Survey Says: A Look At The Clinical Trial Management System Market

    Clinical Research News | A survey conducted by Clinical Research News shows a highly fragmented market when it comes to clinical trial management systems.

    Apr 7, 2020

  • Technological Ways To Make Clinical Trials Really Global

    Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | Although clinical trials are meant to cover global populations, the pool of patients currently enrolled in clinical trials is not representative of world populations. In order to broaden the recruitment of patients enrolled in clinical trials, clinical research opportunities in remote areas must be increased.

    Apr 3, 2020

  • COVID-19: A Catalyst For Innovation In Clinical Research?

    Clinical Research News | The reality of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has presented numerous challenges for society—and these challenges extend to clinical research as well.

    Apr 2, 2020

  • Pfizer’s Former Head Of Clinical Innovation Creates Trial Continuity Website In Light Of COVID-19

    Clinical Research News | The COVID-19 pandemic has left both pharmaceutical companies and researchers scrambling for continuity as clinical trials continue. Looking to create a concise resource to support teams continuing their work, Craig Lipset helped develop Coronatrials.org, a site for researchers to find support in trial continuity, ranging from remote medication adherence and remote clinical monitoring to decentralized trial technology providers.

    Apr 1, 2020

  • Veeva, Celsion, WCG, And More: News From March 2020

    Clinical Research News | March was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from Veeva, Celsion, WCG, and more.

    Mar 31, 2020

  • Many Matters of Time For Circadian Rhythm Research

    Clinical Research News | Growing appreciation in the research community about the impact of when we sleep, eat, and take our medicines has resulted in more interventional clinical trials aimed at correcting disturbances in the body’s complex of circadian clocks. It’s difficult work with potentially far-reaching implications for everything from losing weight and preventing preterm births to treating diabetes and prolonging survival from devastating cancers.

    Mar 30, 2020

  • Why the Clinical Trial Industry Needs Dynamic and Inclusive Marketplaces

    Clinical Research News | Over the past decade, digital marketplaces have emerged as a transformative business model. It’s time to reinvent the expensive, inefficient and biased clinical trial process; maybe marketplaces are the answer.

    Mar 27, 2020

  • WHO Malaria Vaccine ‘Rollout’ In Africa Raises Ethical Questions

    Clinical Research News | The large-scale Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme (MVIP) of the World Health Organization (WHO) has ignited debate within the bioethics community about whether it is really a cluster randomization study that has seriously breached international ethical standards by failing to obtain informed consent from the parents of children opting for vaccination.

    Mar 26, 2020

  • Using Digital Health Technology to Address Payer Concerns About Data Capture

    Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | In recent years, several pharmaceutical companies have shifted their research and development to target personalized medicines including novel cell and gene therapies, many of which offer the prospect of first-time treatments and even curative benefit for patients. While these therapies represent important and historic advances in medicine, they also require regulators, healthcare providers (HCPs), payers, and manufacturers to consider new value-based care principles and payment models to enable their commercialization and affordability.

    Mar 26, 2020

  • Working Out Treatment Timing

    Clinical Research News | People who have erratic schedules seem to suffer more with many diseases, including certain cancers, and women with irregular sleep-wake patterns are also at heightened risk for preterm birth, says Erik Herzog, a neuroscientist and professor at Washington University as well as president of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR). Working with OB-GYN researchers at Washington University, his lab found similar and reliable changes in the daily rhythms of both women and mice during pregnancy.

    Mar 25, 2020

  • Researchers Puzzling Over The Body’s Rhythmicity

    Clinical Research News | Circadian medicine gained newfound attention in 2017 when three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their discovery of the molecular mechanisms controlling how time is measured in biological systems. But the backstory on the field goes back decades, including the 1997 discovery and cloning of the first circadian clock gene in mammals.

    Mar 24, 2020