Articles

Are you involved with Clinical research? If so, take a moment to imagine what if every clinical research assistant, monitor and project manager working with a study were given a personal assistant to be at their sides at all times, watching everything, and keeping track of all the details of the study...

The traditional approach to clinical research is to design the trial, conduct the trial and analyze the data, in three distinct, sequential steps. In contrast, adaptive trials use incoming information to modify the study-in-progress to save time, money and even generate more statistically useful data. In addition,...

Michael Rosenberg discusses the current evolution of the clinical research site monitor and their role.

Within the dynamics of today's market place - amid efforts to decrease the time required to bring a product to market and increased focus on providing the safety and efficacy data needed to obtain a product license - is the industry missing out on the chance to collect and use data that could impact the product's ultimate success?

With licensing deals becoming increasingly popular, pharmacovigilance is often overlooked in the rush to agree the commercial aspects of the contract…

Unless money is invested in clinical trial proposals, too many assumptions and guesses must be made, usually based on past performance metrics which may well have changed…

Thanks to better discovery techniques, the number of candidates in the pipeline has increased. But the flow of products from discovery to market is being choked at the clinical development stage…

Can technology reduce development time? Introducing electronic systems can actually slow the process - as many companies have found out. However, 'appropriate' use of clinical technologies is key…

The EudraVigilance gateway for centralised electronic reporting of serious adverse events is now open, but are pharma companies and national regulatory authorities ready to use it in the EU?…

Fed up with the manual process of running clinical trials, Health Decisions takes a chance on a new way of doing business - and succeeds in an industry of large competitors unwilling to change…