• From DNA to PDF: Harnessing the Genome and Phenome to Make Better Diagnoses

    Clinical Informatics News | When doctors like Marc Williams need to analyze thousands of variants in a patient’s genome to make a diagnosis, a little help can go a long way. Williams, the director of the Genomic Medicine Institute, won a Bio-IT World Best Practices award in Informatics at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo this past month for his project testing the effectiveness of SimulConsult’s “Genome-Phenome Analyzer,” a tool to help clinicians analyze a patient’s genome. 

    May 27, 2013

  • ClinTec Expands to Middle East, North Africa

    Business Insider | CRO firm ClinTec International has opened an office in Istanbul. Now operating in 40 countries, ClinTec's Turkey office will further consolidate its presence in the Middle East and North Africa.

    May 21, 2013

  • Building Enthusiasm for Clinical Trials

    PhysBizTech | Using a trial search engine and educational web videos, researchers at the Seidman Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have been looking into ways to help build enthusiasm for clinical trials from both patients and practitioners.

    May 20, 2013

  • Singapore Launches New Flu Vaccine Trial

    MedicalXpress | Singapore's A*STAR and Swiss group Cytos Biotechnology have launched a Phase 1 clinical trial for an H1N1 flu vaccine, making use of Cytos’ virus-like particle (VLP) technology.

    May 20, 2013

  • Convergence and Big Data: Conversations from the Post-Approval Summit

    Clinical Informatics News | Dr. Richard Gliklich, President of the Quintiles Outcome Division of Quintiles, gave Clinical Informatics News a summary of conversations and issues raised at the 2013 Post-Approval Summit.

    May 20, 2013

  • MIT Develops Insulin-Releasing Nanoparticles

    Diabetes News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers recently developed injectable nanoparticles for patients with type 1 diabetes. These nanoparticles are designed to replace the function of islet cells.

    May 16, 2013

  • Generics Fraud: An Investigation

    CNN Money | Excellent reporting into the long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy—the Indian drug company that makes generic Lipitor.

    May 15, 2013

  • Instem Acquires Logos Technologies, Plans SaaS Offering

    eCliniqua News Brief | Instem has acquired Logos Technologies, representing its strategic move into the early phase clinical trials market. Logos’ ALPHADAS software solution suite is a proactive eSource clinical trials system that is mobile, schedule-driven, and provides real-time bedside or station based direct data capture.

    May 14, 2013

  • Certara, Veristat Form Alliance to Streamline Discovery, Trial Process

    eCliniqua | Certara and Veristat have formed an alliance to offer pharmacokinetic (PK) analysis, PK /pharmacodynamic (PD) modeling, population PK modeling, trial simulation, clinical biostatistics, medical writing, data management, clinical monitoring, safety management, and project management to their clients.

    May 15, 2013

  • Breast Cancer Trials Test Several Therapies at Once

    OncLive | The I-SPY trials for breast cancer are aiming to test several experimental therapies at once to determine which ones work best in which patients.

    May 14, 2013

  • Bacteria Detection Device Could ID Pathogens at Bedside

    Forbes | Using DNA hybridization and detection with a miniaturized nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) device about the size of a microscope slide, researchers are able to test for several bacterial pathogens at once within hours.

    May 14, 2013

  • Moffitt Uses Biosamples to Improve Trial Efficiency

    News Medical | According to researchers at Total Care Cancer (a comprehensive approach to cancer launched at Moffitt Cancer Center), using biosamples for phase II cancer trials improves research efficiency, cost, and the rate of drug development.

    May 13, 2013

  • Merge EDC Solution Deployed by South African CRO

    PBR | OnQ Research, a South Africa-based Clinical Research Organization, has selected Merge's eClinical OS solution for electronic data capture to expand their in-house data management service offering.

    May 10, 2013

  • Quintiles' IPO Raises $947m

    Med City News | Quintiles' second IPO yesterday raised $947 million. The offering prices Quintiles at $6.6 billon, 70% larger than the next largest CRO--Covance.

    May 10, 2013

  • PRO-ACT: Bigger and Better ALS Database Open for Mining

    eCliniqua | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research is getting a major boost from a newly launched Pooled Resource Open-access ALS Clinical Trials (PRO-ACT) platform, which has amassed more than 8,500 de-identified clinical patient records into a single, harmonized dataset. Multiple pharmaceutical companies are now actively exploring PRO-ACT, seeking ways to streamline clinical trials and develop better treatments for the rare and highly heterogeneous disease more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

    May 10, 2013

  • Genomic Prostate Cancer Test Gauges Tumor Aggressiveness

    Boston Herald | A new genetic test—Oncotype DX Genomic Prostate Score—purports to gauge the aggressiveness of prostate cancer, helping doctors and patients decide if they should their cancer right away or can safely monitor it.

    May 9, 2013

  • Vanderbilt Launches Health App Contest

    eCliniqua News Brief | Vanderbilt University launched a $20,000 worldwide Health App Challenge last week, aimed to transform patient clinical summaries into easy to understand personalized health information.

    May 8, 2013

  • EMC Offers Enhanced Life Sciences Suite

    eCliniqua | EMC announced new solutions at its EMC World event leveraging the EMC Documentum platform to meet compliance requirements, increase productivity and securely collaborate across the extended enterprise while accelerating time to value and reducing the total cost of ownership.

    May 7, 2013

  • CIO of University of Utah Health Care Talks Trends

    Computerworld | Jim Turnbull, CIO at University of Utah Health Care in Salt Lake City, talks about how IT is changing healthcare, recruiting health IT talent, and the next big opportunities.

    May 6, 2013

  • EMA Announces Reorganization Details

    eCliniqua | The first details of the planned reorganization of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) were announced this morning. The changes reflect a renewed focus on three key elements: how to better support the scientific work of the EMA committees, how to better share the data the Agency holds and how to better meet the needs of its stakeholders and partners.

    May 3, 2013