• The Potential Of Activity Trackers To Bias Study Results

    Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | Blinding data to remove bias is a fundamental principle of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Does the advent of smartwatches, fitness trackers and other wearable technology and health apps mean that steps should no longer be used as an endpoint in RCTs?

    Jun 23, 2020

  • EHRs + Machine Learning Decipher Drug Effects In Pregnant Persons

    Clinical Research News | Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are using a novel, data-driven “target trial” framework to investigate the efficacy and safety of medicines in pregnant populations, who are underrepresented in randomized controlled trials.

    Jun 22, 2020

  • Platform Trials, Patient Connection: The Week’s COVID-19 Updates

    Clinical Research News | Platform trials may speed our race to COVID-19 treatments, argue some researchers. Other researchers are working on ways to make patients feel more connected and less frightened at home. Plus more from this week’s COVID-19 news and research in the clinical research industry.

    Jun 19, 2020

  • Breakthroughs With Telemedicine

    Clinical Research News | The COVID-19 pandemic has created a “Wild West” response from the FDA, institutional review boards, and clinical trial sponsors to keep studies running and patients safe from an invisible enemy. When the dust settles, the industry is unlikely to look the same—and, it is hoped, drug developers won’t need a second scolding from regulators about the virtues of innovation.

    Jun 18, 2020

  • Follow the Money: $100M to Cue’s Health Monitoring System, COVID-19 Vaccine Investments

    Clinical Research News | Cue’s health monitoring system gets an influx of cash and new vaccine funding for GreenLight Biosciences. Plus more of the latest funding updates from across clinical research, life sciences, and diagnostics.

    Jun 17, 2020

  • The Great Experiment In Taking Trials Virtual

    Clinical Research News | The necessity of running clinical studies in the midst of a pandemic broke through some of the longstanding fears of sponsors and contract research organizations about the adoption of telehealth technology and the decentralized trial model.

    Jun 16, 2020