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Veeva Systems Announces EDC, eSource, And Expansion Of Its Leadership Team
Clinical Informatics News Brief | Veeva announces EDC and eSource to improve the speed and quality of data to cut cost and complexity in clinical trials. Veeva has also expanded its leadership team across product management and cloud software development.
Oct 13, 2016
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Where We Are/What We Have Done – Two Years After Releasing Our FDASIA 907 Action Plan
FDA Voice | Janice Soreth shares updates on the FDA's plan to advance the inclusion of diverse populations in clinical trials.
Oct 11, 2016
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FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence to Innovate Regulatory Approaches for Cancer Therapies
Clinical Informatics News | Speeding therapies to market is at the heart of the newly organized Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE), an initiative meant to support an integrated approach to evaluating products for cancer detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. Committed to meeting the needs of patients, OCE, a virtual center within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will coordinate and review all cancer treatments coming before the agency—drugs, biologics, and diagnostics—instead of continuing with separate review in different silos.
Oct 11, 2016
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A Little-Known Drug Company Could Have The Answer For Some Alzheimers Patients
Forbes | Even if ALZ-801 proves to be effective in 15% of AD patients, it would be a big breakthrough in a disease where a breakthrough is desperately needed.
Oct 7, 2016
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Finalists for Astellas's C3 Prize Announced
Clinical Informatics News | Astellas Ocology has announced five finalists for its C3 prize. The finalists include Prostmate, OnComfort, and Bioinformatix’s Rx&You.
Oct 6, 2016
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New Recommendations for Improving AE Reporting in Clinical Trial Publications
Clinical Informatics News | A group of stakeholders recently published a list of recommendations in BMJ to improve adverse event reporting in clinical trial publications.
Oct 5, 2016
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Ridesharing for Health: How On Demand Cars Could Improve Care
Clinical Informatics News | Last week Boston-based startup Circulation announced its non-emergency medical transportation pilot program in conjunction with Uber. The pilot program is testing Circulation’s transportation platform at hospitals and care facilities in Boston, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
Oct 5, 2016
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Stop Choosing Between Clinical Supply Waste and Supply Chain Risk to Inform Forecasting Decisions
Clinical Informatics News Contributed Commentary | Clinical trials are becoming more complex as new designs are introduced. The challenge in clinical supply forecasting is to set the threshold of supplies for enrolling sites as low as possible but as high as necessary, taking into account all variable factors as well as required stocking of the depots, expiration date and the overall availability of the clinical drug.
Oct 4, 2016
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New Drug for Severe Eczema Is Successful in 2 New Trials
New York Times | Atopic dermatitis causes itching so extreme that many patients consider suicide. In trials, most patients said symptoms waned in the first two weeks of taking a new drug.
Oct 3, 2016
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Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine
The New York Times | A cell biologist, Dr. Ohsumi was recognized for his work on autophagy, the process by which cells recycle their content.
Oct 3, 2016
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goBalto, Medidata, Duke Clinical Research Institute, and more: News from September 2016
Clinical Informatics News Briefs | New partnerships and products from the Duke Clinical Research Institute, goBalto, Medidata, and more.
Sep 29, 2016
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The Right Patients For The Right Trials
Clinical Informatics News | Companies such as TrialsLoop and Genospace are looking to provide services that open links between clinical trials and their participants that will benefit the medical community and, ultimately, the world we live in.
Sep 28, 2016
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Doctors Dig for More Data About Patients
Wall Street Journal | In effort to predict health problems, doctors are looking at a broad range of personal information about patients
Sep 28, 2016
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Chinese Clinical Trials Data 80% Fabricated
Radio Free Asia | A government report reveals a huge scandal around the approval of new pharmaceuticals for the domestic market.
Sep 28, 2016
