• The Scope of Things: Tackling Misinformation, Updated Guidelines to Clinical Trial Reports, More

    Clinical Research News | This month at the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz gives you the latest news on a precision medicine initiative in Sweden integrating research with healthcare, guideline updates on the reporting of clinical trials, and more. Briony Swire-Thompson, director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab at Northeastern University Network Science Institute, also joins in to discuss the current misinformation epidemic and how clinical trials and sites can best deal with it.

    May 20, 2025

  • Solving Patient Recruitment: Privacy Protection, Data Standardization, More

    Clinical Research News | Patient recruitment remains a “never-ending challenge." Despite efforts to leverage real-world data to alleviate the difficulties, there has not been a surefire solution. During April’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, panelists gathered to discuss the roots of the problem and share ideas that could potentially solve this issue.

    May 15, 2025

  • AI Platform Could Aid Precision Dosing for Multiple Conditions

    Clinical Research News | Given information on two blood biomarkers, together with drug type and dose, artificial intelligence (AI) was used to create personalized “digital twins” of cancer patients in an interventional clinical trial at a pair of Singapore hospitals. The goal was to “optimize only their own doses, dynamically."

    May 13, 2025

  • The Path To TMF Inspection-Readiness

    Clinical Research News | Regulators are tightening their scrutiny of the trial master file (TMF), placing the onus on companies to be ready for evaluation. Inspection-readiness should be embedded from the beginning, rather than a reaction to a notice of an inspection.

    May 9, 2025

  • ALS Research Getting a Big Boost from Open Science Initiative

    Clinical Research News | A diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is devastating news given to about 5,000 people in the U.S. each year. It is a rare central nervous system disease without a cure that relentlessly progresses, although death variably occurs anywhere from a few months to many years after symptoms first become noticeable.

    May 8, 2025