• Clinical Trials on Hold Due to Shutdown

    CNN | New patient registrations for NIH-funded clinical trials are on hold due to the government shutdown. Six new studies slated to start this week have been put on hold.

    Oct 2, 2013

  • Quintiles Launches Personalized Cancer Treatment Study

    Med City News | Quintiles has launched a study to develop best practices in pre-screening for personalized cancer treatments. Focusing on colorectal cancer patients, the study will look at how pre-profiling and genomic sequencing data could support physician treatment decisions.

    Sep 30, 2013

  • Blood Test Distinguisheds Between Viral and Bacterial Infections

    Vaccine News | Researchers at Duke Medicine developed a test that shows greater than 90% accuracy when distinguishing between viral and bacterial respiratory infections.

    Sep 24, 2013

  • First Health-IT Incubator in Baltimore

    Clinical Informatics News Briefs | DreamIt Ventures is launching DreamIt Health Baltimore, a partnership with The Johns Hopkins University and BioHealth Innovation to recruit, invest in, and speed the growth and success of a select group of early-stage health IT companies.

    Sep 19, 2013

  • CluePoints’ Statistical Strategies Enhance Risk-Based Monitoring

    Clinical Informatics News | Francois Torche, CEO of CluePoints, a statistical monitoring provider, has a front row vantage point on the ongoing industry-wide shift to risk-based monitoring (RBM).  He sees RBM as critical to improving the quality of clinical trial data through the use of statistical methods that help define more effective on-site monitoring strategies.

    Sep 18, 2013

  • Lilly's Public Design Challenge

    Clinical Informatics News | Eli Lilly and Company has issued a public challenge to transform clinical trials from intimidating to patient-centered. With $75,000 in prize money available, the Clinical Trial Visualization Redesign Challenge is a call to creative, public innovators outside pharma to reconstruct communication and designs in patient-centered ways. 

    Sep 13, 2013

  • DIA Names Kunz Global Chief Executive

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | DIA announced today that Barbara Lopez Kunz has begun leading the organization as global chief executive.

    Sep 12, 2013

  • Clinical Trial Landscape in Central and Eastern Europe

    Clinical Informatics News | Guest Commentary | Following the fall of the Iron Curtain toward the end of the 1980´s, the region of Central and Eastern Europe including post-Soviet states was exposed to a growing demand among the pharmaceutical companies eager to conduct clinical trials. We have learned that this region—particularly the countries in the West of the region: Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Slovakia and Slovenia—offers trial sponsors treatment standards and diagnostics technologies very close to the quality of Western European countries.

    Sep 12, 2013

  • Implanted Melanoma Vaccine Enters Phase I Clinical Trials

    UT San Diego | Researchers from Harvard and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute announced they are starting an implanted melanoma vaccine into human clinical trials.

    Sep 10, 2013

  • Lasker Awards to Five Scientists, Bill and Melinda Gates

    New York Times | The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation awards were announced today. Winners include three scientists who helped deaf people to hear, two for their work in neurotransmission, and Bill and Melinda Gates for their public service work.

    Sep 9, 2013

  • Indian Government Debates Field Trial, Clinical Trials

    Nature | A HPV vaccine field trial in India is under fire from the Indian government because it didn't meet clinical trial guidelines. The field trial was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and measured how various distribution methods of HPV vaccines worked.

    Sep 9, 2013

  • Technology and the Cost of Healthcare

    Technology Review | Jonathan Skinner considers how technology drives health care up, when it lowers the cost of everything else.

    Sep 6, 2013

  • Building and Filling Patient-Centered Trials

    Clinical Informatics News | As drug discovery moves toward more personalized treatments, patient recruitment and patient-centered trial design is paramount. Well-enrolled, successful, cost-effective trials turn on the patients. An upcoming two-part event will delve into solutions for these issues. 

    Sep 4, 2013

  • Moffitt Appoints Director for Personalized Medicine Institute

    Tampa Bay Business Journal | Moffitt Cancer Center has appointed Howard McLeod as the director of the new DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute.

    Sep 4, 2013

  • Clinical Conductor Site CTMS Deployed at Over 1,600 Sites

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | Bio-Optronics, developer of the Clinical Conductor Site CTMS, has launched the product at over 1,600 clinical research sites around the world, making it the most widely used clinical trial management system, the company said in a statement.

    Sep 3, 2013

  • Informed Consent Goes Digital

    Clinical Informatics News | Electronic solutions have become a mainstay in clinical trials, yet one critical aspect, the informed consent process, has stubbornly remained paper-based. And that’s about to change.

    Aug 29, 2013

  • Detroit Cancer Institute Launches Clinical Trial App for Doctors

    Crain's Detroit Business | The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit has released its own cancer-specific iPhone and iPad applications. The apps are designed for physicians who are searching for clinical trials for their own patients.

    Aug 28, 2013

  • PPD Acquires Acurian

    Triangle Business Journal | CRO PPD has acquired Acurian--the clinical trial patient-enrollment firm.

    Aug 28, 2013

  • Combination of Therapies Create Viable Treatment Strategy for Breast Cancer that has Spread to the Patient’s Brain

    Oncology Nurse Advisor | The blood brain barrier prevents many anticancer drugs from reaching areas of the brain to which cancer has spread, but cellular therapy in combination with genetic therapy show reduction of in metastatic brain tumor size. 

    Aug 26, 2013

  • The Open Source Future for Clinical Trials

    OpenSource.com | Clinovo, a Clinical Research Organization (CRO) that partners with life science companies to streamline their clinical trials, believes healthcare needs open source.

    Aug 26, 2013