clinical trials
CRAs spend less time on site, more time travelling
January 25, 2012Research and Development CRAs, Clinical Research Associates, Tufts, clinical trials
A new study of how clinical research associates (CRAs) spend their time has produced some interesting and surprising results. The …
Call for open access to all clinical trial data
October 6, 2011Research and Development Cochrane, clinical trials, clinical trials analysis
There should be free access to all clinical trials in order to end selective reporting, according to a leading not-for-profit …
Researchers call for European clinical trial reform
September 28, 2011Research and Development Euorpe, clinical trials
Medical researchers are calling for regulatory red tape to be snipped away from the legal requirements around clinical trials in …
Designing clinical trials for the real world
September 15, 2011Research and Development clinical trials
A few years ago I was dealing with a big CRO which had been commissioned to run a pharmacokinetics (PK) …
Eisai shares risk with novel trial funding approach
September 7, 2011Research and Development Eisai, clinical trials, research and development news
Eisai has unveiled a novel risk-sharing approach to accelerate its late-stage research programme by accepting new sources of clinical trial …
Analysis paralysis – how to get the true measure of clinical trials
July 20, 2011Research and Development Les Rose, clinical trials
The great physicist Lord Kelvin famously said: “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in …
EU red tape blamed for decline in UK clinical trials
June 10, 2011Research and Development UK clinical research, clinical trials
Medical and pharma groups have blamed European Union red tape for the decline in the UK as a location for …
Digital Pharma: Pfizer’s mobile-powered ‘virtual’ clinical trial
June 8, 2011Research and Development Digital Pharma blog, Pfizer, clinical trials
In an industry first Pfizer is to use mobile phone and web-based technology to collect study data for pharma’s first …
Blood cancer charity to kick-start clinical trials
May 19, 2011Research and Development Cancer, blood cancer, clinical trials, leukaemia
A UK blood cancer charity is creating a network of clinical trial centres with backing from the NIHR Clinical Research …
It’s time we redesigned the clinical trial
May 16, 2011Research and Development clinical trials, randomised controlled trials
Who can remember a time when the pathway from laboratory bench to marketed product didn’t include clinical trial phases I …
Procurement pitfalls and hurdles of lab equipment for clinical trials
April 20, 2011Research and Development clinical trials, medical equipment, mesm, procurement
Over $78 billion is spent every year in the clinical trial market in the pursuit of bringing new drugs and …
Budget provides UK science incentives
March 24, 2011Research and Development George Osborne, R&D tax credits, clinical trials
Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled tax incentives, new funding and moves to cut red tape for the life sciences sector …
Out-of-hour procedures for clinical trials
December 8, 2010Research and Development GCP, Good Clinical Practice, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Katherine Kennedy, clinical trials, trial safety
When a clinical trial subject is involved in a medical emergency, the hospital team need rapid access to information about …
Healthcare, politics and the NHS
November 24, 2010Research and Development Academy of Medical Sciences, Les Roes, NHS, clinical trials, clinical trials governance, evidence-based medicine
I have just participated in a consultation by the Academy of Medical Sciences on the regulation and governance of clinical …
Conducting clinical trials in China
October 26, 2010Research and Development China, Jim Wei, Medpace, clinical trials, clinical trials in Chaia, regulatory affairs
As industry pressure to conduct successful global clinical trials on time and on budget continue, tapping emerging global markets will …
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