Sep 16, 2016, 10:16 by Michael Croft

NPR |  Research on patients with testicular cancer and on others fighting a brain malignancy finds that people who are privately insured are more likely to be diagnosed earlier and survive longer.

Sep 14, 2016, 15:12 by Michael Croft

MIT Technology Review |  Can cell therapy help spinal-cord injury? A long-running study hopes the answer is yes.

Sep 14, 2016, 10:36 by Michael Croft

Forbes |  Andrew Witty inherited a drugmaker sick with scandal and spent the next eight years patching up his patient. GlaxoSmithKline may finally be well again.

Sep 14, 2016, 09:45 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews |  As the Chief Experience Officer at the Cleveland Clinic, you might expect Adrienne Boissy to be a champion for the health system's many mobile apps. But, at the Pop Health Forum in Chicago this week, Boissy took a different tack, arguing that apps by themselves are not a strategy, and can get in the way of a positive patient experience if they're not deployed smartly.

Sep 14, 2016, 09:29 by Michael Croft

NPR |  Doctors worry that requiring patients to see a separate genetic counselor will keep them from getting tested for mutations that significantly increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

Sep 13, 2016, 09:30 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News  CROs are looking for new ways to streamline the difficulty of administering clinical trials, focusing most of their efforts on the study start-up phase of a trial.

Sep 12, 2016, 15:55 by Michael Croft

RAPS |  The FDA has released revisions to the CDER's guidance documents for 2016. Changes in the agency's draft guidance on quality metrics among are notable revisions.

Sep 9, 2016, 16:13 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - Sep 7, 2016 - WHAT:  Rho, a full-service contract research organization (CRO), will highlight its clinical data management expertise, including database development and deployment, data entry and tracking and third-party data integration, at the Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM) 2016 Annual Conference, being held September 11-14 in San Diego, California Attendees are invited to stop by Rho's booth (#114b) to meet with data management expert Derek Lawrence, who has experience in all phases of clinical trials, including customizing data collection to meet the client's needs

Sep 8, 2016, 10:50 by Michael Croft

STAT |  Celator touted its experimental drug for acute myeloid leukemia at a recent cancer conference, but the FDA says the company didn't have clearance to do so.

Sep 8, 2016, 08:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics | In a recent blog post, Ewan Birney makes a case for why data sharing should extend to the clinical trials community.

Sep 7, 2016, 11:34 by Michael Croft

STAT |  Researchers have cleared the last scientific hurdle to a clinical trial of gene therapy to cure sickle cell disease.

Sep 7, 2016, 10:10 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Sep 7, 2016 - Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced that it has acquired d3 Medicine

Sep 7, 2016, 10:05 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | AstraZeneca’s MedImmunie unit has created a trial feasibility informatics program using a “data-driven decision-making model” designed to identify appropriate prospective patients, sites, and expert physicians; eliminate guess work; and reduce cycle time of site and patient analysis from weeks to just hours.

Sep 6, 2016, 13:52 by Michael Croft

NPR |  Finding a provider of health care in your network is often a challenge because the insurer's directory isn't up to date. A California law aims to improve directory accuracy.

Sep 6, 2016, 09:50 by Michael Croft

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - Sep 6, 2016 - ERT, a leading eClinical solutions provider, including high-quality patient data collection and analysis, today announced enhancements to its Insights Cloud trial oversight solution that enable trial sponsors and clinical research organizations (CROs) to collaborate by sharing electronic monitoring visit reports and comprehensive issue management, tracking, and reporting

Sep 1, 2016, 14:37 by Michael Croft

TechCrunch |  Advanced technologies and the rapid adoption of electronic health records are enabling the physical world to merge with the digital, leading to explosive growth in the volume and quality of data.

Sep 1, 2016, 11:16 by Michael Croft

STAT |  Paraxel said in an SEC document that a theft of corporate funds will delay the filing of its annual report.

Aug 31, 2016, 17:14 by Michael Croft

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, UNITED STATES - Aug 31, 2016 - Cenduit, a joint venture between Quintiles and Thermo Fisher Scientific, today announced the launch of new drug management modules for its industry-leading interactive response technology (IRT) system

Aug 31, 2016, 14:45 by Michael Croft

NPR | Carnegie Mellon University develops edible, non-toxic batteries to power tiny medical robots in the human body.

Aug 30, 2016, 14:30 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Briefs | New partnerships and products from Leapcure, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Definiens, and more.