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Women Are Being Excluded From Clinical Trials
Popular Science | An editorial out this week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine says that women have been routinely excluded from clinical trials due to, "complexities of the menstrual cycle."
Jun 15, 2016
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FDA Launches Clinical Trial Minority Participation Campaign
Clinical Informatics News | On Sunday the Food & Drug Administration is launching the first phase of a campaign to encourage minorities to participate in clinical trials. With a series of six videos, blogs, and an infographic, FDA hopes to increase awareness about clinical trials in minority communities and encourage discussion and participation.
Jun 15, 2016
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FDA's Guidance on Sharing Patient Information from Medical Devices
FDA Law Blog | On June 10, FDA issued the draft guidance, "Dissemination of Patient-Specific Information from Devices by Device Manufacturers." At a mere six pages long, this guidance is not tipping the scales by any means, but its pages contain some important information for device manufacturers.
Jun 15, 2016
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Drug firms seeing greater success with clinical trials
STAT | Drug firms may be seeing improved success in their clinical trials, but whether that trend is sustainable is an open question, an analysis says.
Jun 14, 2016
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Obamas choice to waive HIPAA in Orlando will likely help families and loved ones during the crisis.
Slate Magazine | Over the last two decades, the term HIPAA has effectively become synonymous with medical privacy. But guarding medical privacy was not, and is not, its only goal. HIPAA was enacted to facilitate the necessary flow of health information while taking care not to compromise patient control.
Jun 13, 2016
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ePatientFinder raises $8 million for its cloud-based clinical trial exchange platform
MobiHealthNews | Austin, Texas-based ePatientFinder raised $8.2 million to build out its Clinical Trial Exchange platform.
Jun 13, 2016
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Transparency Life Sciences Wants to Change How We Design and Execute Clinical Trials
Clinical Informatics News | Since its founding in 2010, Transparency Life Sciences (TLS) has been on a mission: to build a culture and a platform for moving clinical trials out of the existing healthcare system. It plans to accomplish this via new methods for designing and executing clinical trials through the use of crowdsourcing and digital technology.
Jun 6, 2016
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May New Products
Bio-IT World | News and product notes from Bioclinica, Genentech, Janssen, and more.
Jun 2, 2016
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After French tragedy European authorities to review guidelines for clinical trials
STAT | A clinical trial in France went horribly wrong. Now the European Medicines Agency is reviewing the guidelines for first-in-human studies to identify which areas need to be revised in order to avoid a repeat of the tragedy, and a report is expected to be completed by July.
May 27, 2016
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Celgene forms real-time real-world trial partnership
PMLiVE | Celgene and TriNetX will work to use Celgene's EMR data to support clinical study and protocol design, site selection, and patient recruitment across a range of therapeutic areas.
May 25, 2016
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Next step for Biden cancer effort national summit in June
STAT | Vice President Joe Biden will host a national cancer summit in Washington on June 29 to support his "moonshot" initiative.
May 25, 2016
