Apr 28, 2016, 11:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | MolecularMatch runs a free online search engine for clinical trials, with a registry that is beginning to rival clinicaltrials.gov. Now it wants to arm pathology labs with the same context-aware search engine to help interpret the results of molecular tests.

Apr 28, 2016, 10:36 by Michael Croft

Computerworld |  Apple's focus on personal health through connected devices ramps up a little more today with the release of the first four third party apps to integrate its newly announced open source CareKit technologies.

Apr 28, 2016, 09:09 by Michael Croft

Forbes |  Last night, a panel of advisors to the Food and Drug Administration voted 7 to 3, with 3 abstentions, that the agency should not approve eteplirsen, a drug for a Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare, deadly, muscle-destroying disease, developed by Sarepta, a Cambridge, Mass.-based biotechnology firm. (On another vote, which [...]

Apr 28, 2016, 08:19 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Apr 28, 2016 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today launched an e-learning platform through Certara University to satisfy the increased need for education in the burgeoning field of biosimulation or model-based drug development

Apr 27, 2016, 18:22 by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES - Apr 27, 2016 - April 27, 2016 -- Oasmia Pharmaceutical AB (OASM), a developer of a new generation of drugs within human and veterinary oncology, today announced positive overall survival results for Paclical/Apealea in the Phase III study that included a total of 789 patients with epithelial ovarian cancer

Apr 27, 2016, 16:46 by Michael Croft

MONTREAL, QC, CANADA - Apr 28, 2016 - Montrium, clinical trial technology specialists, and electronic content management software providers, today, announced the commercial release of the eTMF Navigator, an interactive intelligence dashboard integrated into eTMF Connect

Apr 27, 2016, 10:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | The latest announcements and product releases from around the industry, including a major data sharing initiative for BRCA testing, and LifeMap Solutions' tailored service for smartphone-enabled research studies.

Apr 26, 2016, 10:35 by Michael Croft

BELFAST AND CAMBRIDGE, UK - Apr 26, 2016 - Queen’s University Belfast and Domainex Ltd. announced today that they have secured a late-stage award from the Wellcome Trust Seeding Drug Discovery scheme to advance therapeutic candidate molecules into clinical evaluation for treatment of non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC)

Apr 26, 2016, 09:54 by Michael Croft

TechCrunch |  Augmedix, creator of a Google Glass platform for doctors to interact with medical data in real time, raised an additional $17 million this week.

Apr 25, 2016, 15:45 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | A new study by UCLA researchers demonstrates the use of next generation sequencing to predict survival of brain cancer patients treated with a cancer vaccine. The vaccine, an autologous dendritic cell therapy called DCVax-L, is under development by Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc., of Bethesda, Md., for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). It is designed to activate the adaptive immune system, including T lymphocytes (T cells).

Apr 25, 2016, 15:44 by Michael Croft

STAT |  An investigation into Semler Research Center in Bangalore has uncovered "manipulation of at least five studies over an extended period of time."

Apr 22, 2016, 13:55 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News  Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI), has announced a 10-year deal with AstraZeneca to sequence and analyze up to 500,000 DNA samples from AstraZeneca clinical trials. The genomic insights from the collaboration will be added to the HLI Knowledgebase.

Apr 21, 2016, 10:55 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | 2016 Best Practices Awards | Retaining patients in clinical trials is notoriously difficult, and if those trials are for rare diseases, retention is even tougher. That’s where Clincierge comes in. Their efforts to improve patient retention with patient concierge services grabbed the attention of the judges of the 2016 Clinical Informatics News Best Practices Awards.

Apr 21, 2016, 10:13 by Michael Croft

WAYNE, PA, UNITED STATES - Apr 20, 2016 - A Bracket, a leading clinical trial specialty services provider, announced platform updates to Bracket eCOATM and Bracket RTSMTM to include native support for SMS messaging with patients and other stakeholders in clinical research programs

Apr 20, 2016, 10:17 by Michael Croft

TheStreet |  Bluebird bio has released interim data from its Phase 2/3 trial of its gene therapy Lenti-D, which suggests the approach may be comparably effective to bone marrow transplant for children with the rare disease cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy.

Apr 20, 2016, 09:23 by Michael Croft

BERLIN, GERMANY - Apr 20, 2016 - Post-authorization safety studies (PASS) are becoming an integral part of the medicines development. Planning the design of PASS in the early phases of a clinical trial will translate into significant time- and cost-efficiency of pre-approval research

Apr 19, 2016, 11:30 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | Bioclinica has chosen ArisGlobal’s Safety Cloud as the preferred safety platform for its pharmacovigilance services; Bioclinica will become the preferred partner for ArisGlobal in business process consulting and change management as sponsors implement or upgrade ARISg.

Apr 19, 2016, 09:35 by Michael Croft

MedicalXpress |  The International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) announced plans to launch the International Cancer Genome Consortium for Medicine (ICGCmed), a new phase in the Consortium's evolution that will link genomics to clinical information and health. By linking the ICGC data with clinical information, ICGCmed aims to accelerate the movement of this information into the clinic to guide prevention, early detection, diagnosis and prognosis.

Apr 14, 2016, 12:42 by Michael Croft

MobiHealthNews |  Cleveland Clinic providers will now offer online and mobile video visits to CVS Minute Clinic customers in Ohio. The partnership is powered by American Well's video visits offering. American Well previously partnered with CVS and Cleveland Clinic in separate deals.

Apr 14, 2016, 09:56 by Michael Croft

Fast Company |  The major Ohio hospital has partnered with CVS's MinuteClinics and American Well to offer telehealth consults through walk-in clinics.