Jun 11, 2014, 08:55 by Michael Croft

WSJ Pharmalot | Following revelations in April that Novartis employees in Japan had concealed unfavorable safety reports in clinical trials, the pharmaceutical company has now disclosed that the problem was much more widespread than was previously realized.

Jun 11, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PARAMUS, NJ - Jun 11, 2014 - Advanced Data Systems (ADS) announced today that MedicsDocAssistant v. 7.0 is certified as a Silver Quality Solution by Quest Diagnostics under Quest’s Health IT Quality Solutions™ Program (the “Program”)

Jun 9, 2014, 08:40 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Transparency, data sharing, and the inclusion of patient voices were all major themes at last week's Healthdatapalooza event in Washington, D.C.

Jun 6, 2014, 12:35 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | Geisinger Health Systems, one of the country's largest provider networks, yesterday announced the construction of a new facility in Forty Fort, PA, to provide patients with remote consultations around DNA diagnostics.

Jun 5, 2014, 09:55 by Michael Croft

New York Times | A new, ultra-rapid method of pathogen detection from DNA samples has been used to diagnose, and ultimately cure, a life-threatening case of encephalitis that had led doctors to place a 14-year-old boy in a medically induced coma.

Jun 5, 2014, 08:45 by Michael Croft

WSJ Pharmalot | Ed Silverman, whose popular Pharmalot blog was revived this week in a new home at the Wall Street Journal, has published an interview with European Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly about her criticisms of the European Medicines Agency.

Jun 4, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

POWYS, UK - Jun 4, 2014 - Commercial packaging and clinical trial services specialist Packaging Coordinators, Inc. (PCI) has today announced that its UK facility had a positive inspection and expects to achieve approval from the National Health Surveillance Agency of Brazil (ANVISA) to carry out secondary packaging for the importation of a pharmaceutical product into Brazil

Jun 3, 2014, 10:15 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | This Monday, the FDA opened access to the beta version of openFDA, a web portal designed to make it easier for the public to access and search through medical data already collected by the agency.

Jun 3, 2014, 07:15 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Pathway Genomics has launched its BRCATrue test for BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 and its BRCA One for One program, hoping to offer the industry’s best BRCA genetic test and make it accessible to a wide range of women.

May 30, 2014, 09:55 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | Spark Therapeutics, a gene therapy company pursuing a Phase 3 clinical trial to treat a progressive retinal disorder, this week announced a Series B funding round that co-founder and CEO Jeff Marrazzo says will put the company on solid footing through an FDA decision on its lead therapy.

May 29, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

PRINCETON, NJ - May 29, 2014 - The WIRB-Copernicus Group ("WCG"), the world's largest provider of regulatory and ethical review services for clinical research, announced today the formation of a new cancer-focused institutional review board, WCG OncologyTM

May 29, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

M, MN - May 29, 2014 - Before joining RCRI, Christine Lys, M.S. spent nearly a decade in the clinical software technology arena, advocating increased quality and efficiency in clinical trials data collection

May 29, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

BISHOP'S STORTFORD, UK - May 29, 2014 - ~~Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, will host the scientific community at Dotmatics Days in the biotech hubs of Boston and San Francisco

May 28, 2014, 11:45 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News Brief | This week's publication of new European rules on clinical trial transparency have prompted renewed scrutiny of the EMA, which critics accuse of backing down on commitments to public access to trial data.

May 28, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

CHAPEL HILL, NC, UNITED STATES - May 28, 2014 - Rho to Use Clinical Trial Oversight Summitas Platform to Share Best Practices in Clinical MonitoringClinical trial thought leaders share insight on risk-based monitoring, monitoring with EDC, and the importance of strong relationships between sites and CROs WHAT:          Rho, a contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a full range of product development services, today announced its participation at the 5th Annual Clinical Oversight Summit in Boston as a sponsor

May 28, 2014, 00:00 by Michael Croft

LINCOLN, NE - May 28, 2014 - TELCOR Inc announced today it has achieved the prestigious Microsoft Partner status through Microsoft Corp

May 23, 2014, 10:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | The Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai is experimenting with new ways to bring genomics closer to medical education – all the way up to sequencing students' whole genomes.

May 22, 2014, 12:00 by Michael Croft

Philadelphia Inquirer | Patient recruitment is a fundamental challenge in clinical trials, and a study's design can have a significant impact on patient retention and recruitment.

May 21, 2014, 10:00 by Michael Croft

Clinical Informatics News | In its continuing effort to make clinical trials more patient-centric and to improve the time, cost, and efficiency of developing new treatments, Eli Lilly and Company announced the winners of its second Open Clinical Trial challenge.

May 20, 2014, 12:00 by Michael Croft