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Studies Link Cancer Patients Survival Time To Insurance Status
NPR | Research on patients with testicular cancer and on others fighting a brain malignancy finds that people who are privately insured are more likely to be diagnosed earlier and survive longer.
Sep 16, 2016
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After Setbacks A Pioneering Stem-Cell Technology Is Back in Human Trials
MIT Technology Review | Can cell therapy help spinal-cord injury? A long-running study hopes the answer is yes.
Sep 14, 2016
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How GlaxoSmithKline Took Its Medicine
Forbes | Andrew Witty inherited a drugmaker sick with scandal and spent the next eight years patching up his patient. GlaxoSmithKline may finally be well again.
Sep 14, 2016
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Cleveland Clinic Exec: We Need Better Engagement Not More Apps
MobiHealthNews | As the Chief Experience Officer at the Cleveland Clinic, you might expect Adrienne Boissy to be a champion for the health system's many mobile apps. But, at the Pop Health Forum in Chicago this week, Boissy took a different tack, arguing that apps by themselves are not a strategy, and can get in the way of a positive patient experience if they're not deployed smartly.
Sep 14, 2016
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Should Women Have To Have Counseling Before A BRCA Test?
NPR | Doctors worry that requiring patients to see a separate genetic counselor will keep them from getting tested for mutations that significantly increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
Sep 14, 2016
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The Struggle To Speed Study Start-up
Clinical Informatics News CROs are looking for new ways to streamline the difficulty of administering clinical trials, focusing most of their efforts on the study start-up phase of a trial.
Sep 13, 2016
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FDA To Revise Draft Guidance On Quality Metrics Data
RAPS | The FDA has released revisions to the CDER's guidance documents for 2016. Changes in the agency's draft guidance on quality metrics among are notable revisions.
Sep 12, 2016
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FDA Slams Drug Maker For Touting Unapproved Leukemia Treatment To Docs
STAT | Celator touted its experimental drug for acute myeloid leukemia at a recent cancer conference, but the FDA says the company didn't have clearance to do so.
Sep 8, 2016
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Birney Takes To Blog To Stress Importance Of Data Sharing
Clinical Informatics | In a recent blog post, Ewan Birney makes a case for why data sharing should extend to the clinical trials community.
Sep 7, 2016
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Gene Therapy For Sickle Cell Moves Closer As Last Hurdle Cleared
STAT | Researchers have cleared the last scientific hurdle to a clinical trial of gene therapy to cure sickle cell disease.
Sep 7, 2016
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AstraZeneca’s Trial Feasibility Informatics Program
Clinical Informatics News | AstraZeneca’s MedImmunie unit has created a trial feasibility informatics program using a “data-driven decision-making model” designed to identify appropriate prospective patients, sites, and expert physicians; eliminate guess work; and reduce cycle time of site and patient analysis from weeks to just hours.
Sep 7, 2016
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California Now Requires Timely Updates For Insurers Doctor Directories Shots
NPR | Finding a provider of health care in your network is often a challenge because the insurer's directory isn't up to date. A California law aims to improve directory accuracy.
Sep 6, 2016
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Applying Analytics To Clinical Data
TechCrunch | Advanced technologies and the rapid adoption of electronic health records are enabling the physical world to merge with the digital, leading to explosive growth in the volume and quality of data.
Sep 1, 2016
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Parexel Delays Regulatory Filing After An Employee Steals Money
STAT | Paraxel said in an SEC document that a theft of corporate funds will delay the filing of its annual report.
Sep 1, 2016
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How An Edible Battery Could Power Medical Robots You Swallow
NPR | Carnegie Mellon University develops edible, non-toxic batteries to power tiny medical robots in the human body.
Aug 31, 2016
