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Jun 19, 2017, 15:56
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Michael Croft
The Seattle Times | Seattle Genetics said it is discontinuing a Phase 3 clinical trial after data showed "a higher rate of deaths, including fatal infections" in acute myeloid leukemia patients receiving its drug than in the study's other patients.
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Jun 19, 2017, 11:02
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Michael Croft
NEW YORK, NY - Jun 19, 2017 - Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and health, has launched the PharmaPendium DMPK (Drug Metabolism-Pharmacokinetic) solution
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Jun 16, 2017, 14:31
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Michael Croft
SAN DIEGO, CA, UNITED STATES - Jun 1, 2017 - AntiCancer PDOX, Inc. announced today that it has reached its original Series A financing target and appointed its Board of Directors
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Jun 15, 2017, 13:22
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Michael Croft
FDA Voice | Scott Gottlieb introduces a new Digital Health Innovation Plan that is focused on fostering innovation at the intersection of medicine and digital health technology. This plan will include a novel, post-market approach to how we intend to regulate these digital medical devices.
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Jun 15, 2017, 09:40
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Michael Croft
Clinical Informatics News | It’s About Time | Norman Goldfarb speaks with Reg Blynn, Vice President of Client Services at QuintilesIMS, about the need for clinical sites to be more proactive in the areas of business development, patient recruitment, and quality.
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Jun 15, 2017, 08:15
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Michael Croft
PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 15, 2017 - WIRB-Copernicus Group® (WCG), the worlds leading provider of solutions that measurably improve the quality and efficiency of clinical research, today announced that it will be showcasing its newest companies and technologies at the DIA Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL from June 18-22
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Jun 14, 2017, 16:07
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Michael Croft
RAPS | The US Food and Drug Administration says it relied on real-world evidence in its decision to expand the use of Edwards Lifesciences' Sapien 3 transcatheter aortic valve replacement to valve-in-valve procedures.
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Jun 14, 2017, 16:05
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Michael Croft
STAT | Watchdog group argues that newly released documents show researchers continued an experiment despite learning their oxygen monitors were malfunctioning.
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Jun 14, 2017, 11:10
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Michael Croft
Clinical Informatics News Contributed Commentary | Outsourcing strategy in the drug development sector is notoriously cyclical. Companies move between using in-house teams, project-based outsourcing, functional outsourcing, and strategic partnerships in response to the changing global business climate. The requirement to adapt is not unique to trial sponsors and we should not be surprised that strategic business models need to change as well.
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Jun 13, 2017, 10:43
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Michael Croft
San Francisco Chronicle | The health care industrial complex has spent billions of dollars and untold amounts of time trying to make medical records as flexible, invisible and unobtrusive as possible for patients and clinicians alike. The results will be well worth the expense if the records could help clinicians spend more time caring for people and less on paperwork.
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Jun 13, 2017, 09:25
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Michael Croft
Clinical Informatics News | iSpecimen launched its marketplace today, an online shopping platform to connect life science researchers to healthcare organizations with human biospecimens.
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Jun 12, 2017, 17:09
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Michael Croft
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Jun 12, 2017 - Celebrating its 10-year anniversary, Cenduit LLC, a joint venture between QuintilesIMS and Thermo Fisher Scientific, is showcasing its solutions and expertise as the largest interactive response technology (IRT) specialist in the world at DIA 2017, June 19-21 in Chicago
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Jun 12, 2017, 10:07
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Michael Croft
Science | President Donald Trump announced his intention to appoint Norman Sharpless to be the next director of the National Cancer Institute.
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Jun 12, 2017, 08:23
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Michael Croft
PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 12, 2017 - WIRB-Copernicus IRB Group® announced today that its Institutional Biosafety Committee Services (IBC Services) group has achieved a major milestone in administering 4,000 convened IBC meetings globally
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Jun 9, 2017, 08:35
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Michael Croft
Clinical Informatics News | Novaseek’s Clinical Data Network for Research provides researchers with well-categorized cohorts of consented patients while allowing hospitals and physician groups to share their data and samples with researchers.
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Jun 9, 2017, 01:30
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Michael Croft
CHICAGO, IL, US - Jun 9, 2017 - DDi the clinical, drug development technology & Regulatory Technology and solution provider to pharma industry is participating at DIA Annual meetMeet the DDi team to know more about their Next Gen Technology of Regulator Artificial Intelligence Tool, get a demo of "TULA" the solution to manage clinical studies, projects and vendors by combining Oversight, Performance & Risk Management & learn about the most updated version of IRT for randomization & Supply Chain Management
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Jun 9, 2017, 01:24
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Michael Croft
BOSTON, MA - May 23, 2017 - Geneious Biologics, an enterprise software solution for screening antibodies and related constructs using sequence data, was launched today and will change the way scientists identify antibodies for use in biological drug development
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Jun 8, 2017, 15:44
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Michael Croft
Chemical & Engineering News | In January 2016, one clinical trial volunteer in France died, four others were hospitalized, and two of those went on to have long-term neurological damage. Attempting to provide answers to what went wrong, a study published in Science now reports that the drug candidate responsible for the tragedy, BIA 10-2474, covalently binds several enzymes in addition to the fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) it was designed to block.
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Jun 8, 2017, 15:39
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Michael Croft
STAT | The new cases are vaccine-derived polioviruses and not an indication the viruses are spreading "in the wild," according to the WHO.
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Jun 7, 2017, 09:38
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Michael Croft
STAT | Dr. Francis Collins, a holdover from the Obama administration, will remain director of the National Institutes of Health, the White House announced.
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