Jul 1, 2014, 10:50 by Michael Croft

New York Times | The Federation of State Medical Boards, which represents every U.S. medical licensing organization, has released draft legislation that would ease the licensing requirements for doctors treating patients in multiple states through telemedicine or online portals.

Jul 1, 2014, 09:40 by Michael Croft

PharmaTimes | A study published in this month's Lancet Oncology reveals that teenage cancer sufferers have fewer opportunities to enroll in clinical trials than children or adults, despite little scientific rationale for age cutoffs.

Jul 1, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

CRUMLIN, UNITED KINGDOM - Jul 1, 2014 - The TGA has cleared a test developed by Randox Laboratories which allows assessment of the risk of patients developing Type 2 diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

Jul 1, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

NEW YORK, NY, ÉTATS-UNIS - Jul 1, 2014 - TEMIS, the leading provider of Semantic Content Enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, today announced the launch of Luxid® 7, the seventh generation of its flagship semantic content enrichment platform

Jul 1, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

CRUMLIN, UNITED KINGDOM - Jul 1, 2014 - A new Randox External Quality Assurance (EQA) programme monitoring Ammonia and Ethanol will be available on RIQAS from September 2014

Jun 30, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WARSAW, POLAND - Jun 30, 2014 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Jun 30, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

WARSAW, POLAND - Jun 30, 2014 - Warsaw – 30 June 2014 – KCR, European Contract Research Organization, announces today that its International Conference on Harmonization Good Clinical Practice (ICH GCP) Investigator Site Personnel Training has been recognized by TransCelerate BioPharma Inc

Jun 27, 2014, 11:00 by Michael Croft

PM Live | Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed to make full clinical study reports and anonymized patient-level data public via the Duke Clinical Research Initiative (DCRI).

Jun 27, 2014, 08:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Twenty percent of Phase II clinical failures from 2008-2010 were because of drug safety issues, making safety not only a concern to the patient, but huge cost driver for drug developers. So AstraZeneca and their partner, Tessella, built REACT, a better tool to watch ongoing trials. The solution won the pair a 2014 Bio-IT World Best Practices Award in Clinical & Health IT.

Jun 26, 2014, 08:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | As clinical trials are ballooning in size and becoming more global, there is a parallel trend toward smaller and smaller. How about a clinical trial with just one subject?

Jun 26, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

BOSTON, MA - Jun 26, 2014 -

Boston Children's Hospital will host its second annual pediatric innovation summit October 30-31, 2014 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston

Jun 23, 2014, 12:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | GlaxoSmithKline is raising questions about clinical trial recruitment after an outside consultant (who has since been fired) posted a blog post to a website for recent college graduates touting clinical trials as a source of “immediate income that can tide you over for the coming months”.

Jun 23, 2014, 08:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | The Clinical Genome Conference, now in its third year, was held in San Francisco June 10-12. The program explored a wide range of issues facing genomics in the clinic including the payer process, genome interpretation software, clinical utility and integration, references and standards, and communicating findings to the patient. Here are some of the highlights from the event.

Jun 19, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

LINCOLN, NE - Jun 19, 2014 - TELCOR's QML version 2.3 point of care software solution has achieved ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular Inpatient and Modular Ambulatory EHR Certification, which designates that the software is capable of supporting eligible providers and hospitals with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

Jun 17, 2014, 10:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | The FDA has finally released two draft guidances on how companies should deal with social media including comments posted on Twitter and third party blogs and sponsored links on search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

Jun 16, 2014, 13:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Lots of product news coming out of the Drug Information Association annual meeting that started today in San Diego. Here are some of the highlights.

Jun 16, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - Jun 16, 2014 - The WIRB-Copernicus Group ("WCG"), the world's largest provider of regulatory and ethical review services for clinical research, announced today that two independent review boards (IRBs) – Aspire IRB and Midlands IRB – have joined the Group

Jun 13, 2014, 08:25 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Clinical news and product releases from around the industry, including Eli Lilly's new clinical trial transparency commitments, and Aptiv Solutions' latest adaptive dose response software for Phase 1 clinical trials.

Jun 12, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

TORONTO, ON, CANADA - Jun 12, 2014 - Claron Technology, a leading medical imaging solution provider, was ranked today as No. 305 on the Canadian Business and PROFIT 26th annual PROFIT 500, the definitive ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies

Jun 11, 2014, 10:10 by Michael Croft

Nature News | In the effort to empower clinical geneticists with reliable public data on which genetic variants should be labeled pathogenic, mutations to the breast cancer-related BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have been among the heaviest points of contention.