Aug 27, 2015, 08:14 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Aug 27, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that its Director of Pharmacometrics Samer Mouksassi, PharmD, PhD, FCP, has been appointed an associate professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Montreal

Aug 26, 2015, 13:25 by Michael Croft

FierceBiotech | Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have published the results of a Phase II trial to extend the indications for cancer therapy Zelboraf, in a "basket trial" protocol that divides patients by key biomarkers rather than broad disease types.

Aug 25, 2015, 14:50 by Michael Croft

Aug 24, 2015, 15:20 by Michael Croft

Aug 20, 2015, 14:55 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Yesterday, the Rare Genomics (RG) Institute announced the winners of the 2015 BeHEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries) science challenge, a global competition that offers technology tools to rare disease researchers. Tools and technology were provided by Jackson Lab, Taconic Biosciences, Tute Genomics, Cypher Genomics, Maverix Biomics, Biovista, and more.

Aug 20, 2015, 10:50 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Aug 20, 2015 - Certara®, the global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development company, today announced that Lawrence J

Aug 20, 2015, 10:00 by Michael Croft

TIME | The brain cancer patient featured on the March cover of TIME is cancer-free, thanks to a clinical trial methodology researchers called a "basket trial". In a follow up article, TIME recounts her progress and Rather than group cancers by tissue of origin, the trial grouped 122 cancer patients by driving mutation, then tested drugs thought to target those mutations.

Aug 20, 2015, 09:05 by Michael Croft

Aug 18, 2015, 17:28 by Michael Croft

MIDDLETON, WI, UNITED STATES - Aug 18, 2015 - PFS Clinical, which offers turnkey administration solutions that address the key pain points of establishing and running a clinical trial office, has been engaged by the Boston Medical Center (BMC) Clinical Trial Office to provide Medicare Coverage Analysis (CA) of its clinical research trials

Aug 18, 2015, 15:15 by Michael Croft

Aug 13, 2015, 07:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | We’re told that modern technologies are dramatically transforming healthcare for the better. We need a reality check. This grand vision is not yet clear for many of us testing the science of digital health and seeking to understand how it will improve care. Digital health is at its infancy.

Aug 12, 2015, 10:35 by Michael Croft

Aug 12, 2015, 09:30 by Michael Croft

Aug 11, 2015, 14:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | Minorities are under-represented in clinical trials even as they carry greater disease burden, particularly for cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Priscilla Pemu, director of clinical trials at Morehouse School of Medicine, spoke with NPR about the challenges and opportunities increasing the number of minorities in clinical trials.

Aug 11, 2015, 12:45 by Michael Croft

Aug 10, 2015, 11:55 by Michael Croft

SearchHealthIT | The CEO of Allscripts revealed the company's corporate strategy to compete with Epic and Cerner. The key to its comeback bid is a new genomics system deal with NantHealth.

Aug 10, 2015, 11:00 by Michael Croft

Washington Post | As a new FDA medical officer in 1960, Kelsey fought for more safety testing for the morning sickness drug thalidomide - efforts that prevented perhaps thousands of birth defects and led to meaningful new drug regulations.

Aug 7, 2015, 12:55 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | A workgroup convened by the American College of Emergency Physicians, in support of a proposed national Health Information Exchange, has published a set of priority items for improving the usefulness of these exchanges in emergency care.

Aug 7, 2015, 10:40 by Michael Croft

New York Times | IBM has announced the $1 billion purchase of Merge Healthcare, whose software for managing huge volumes of medical imaging data will now be linked to IBM's Watson machine learning programs in healthcare.

Aug 4, 2015, 14:30 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Roundup | Over the weekend, the popular philosopher Steven Pinker published an opinion piece in the Boston Globe titled “The moral imperative for bioethics,” which has set off a flurry of blog posts and ripostes about the nature and purpose of bioethical review in medical research.