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Adopting New Patient-Centric Payment Solutions for Whole-Industry Benefits
Sep 22 | Clinical Research News | The clinical trial landscape has a long-acknowledged problem – a lack of participant diversity. Most clinical trial participants are from higher-income households, white and male. More -
COVID Vaccine Developers May Want To Pivot To Symptom Prevention
Sep 19 | Clinical Research News | Vaccine developers may want to consider designing formulations intended to prevent symptoms rather than infection, which the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated can be hard to do with any long-lasting effect. More -
City of Hope’s Harmonized, Findable, Accessible Precision Medicine Data Platform
Sep 14 | Clinical Research News | INNOVATIVE PRACTICES AWARDS—When City of Hope wanted to better use its primary and secondary clinical research data and harmonize files on more than 700,000 patients so they were findable and accessible, the hospital built a highly scalable, compliant cloud-based platform. More -
Changes Afoot In The Regulatory Landscape For Companion Diagnostics
Sep 13 | Clinical Research News | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been making moves signaling its intention to better align the regulatory framework for companion diagnostics (CDx) to what is happening in real-world clinical practice. More -
Study Finds Breast Cancer Spreads During Sleep, Highlights Role Of Hormones
Sep 12 | Clinical Research News | The recent discovery that the metastatic spread of breast cancer accelerates during sleep sparked a lively conversation at last month’s Next Generation Dx Summit about new paths of exploration for thwarting a deadly pan-cancer process claiming 12 lives worldwide every minute. More -
Automated Speech Analysis: A Promising New Avenue For Patient Monitoring In Alzheimer’s Trials
Sep 08 | Clinical Research News | As experimental drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease increasingly target the disease’s very initial stages, monitoring the impact of novel treatments on cognition has become a complex undertaking for trial sponsors. More


The Scope of Things podcast explores clinical research and its possibilities, promise, and pitfalls. Clinical Research News Senior writer Deborah Borfitz welcomes guests who are visionaries closest to the topics, but who can still see past their piece of the puzzle. Focusing on game-changing trends and out-of-the-box operational approaches in the clinical research field, the Scope of Things podcast is your no-nonsense, insider’s look at clinical research today.