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Study finds sponsors could do more to support patient recruitment
01 September 2010
Are sponsors doing enough to support their patient recruitment and can outsourcing to a CRO or other external vendor significantly help the process? And when does a sponsor begin to consider using a CRO to help with their patient recruitment? Collecting data from 39 sponsors, 27 CROs and 18 patient ...
Exco InTouch snaps up GSK patient recruitment head for global role
01 September 2010
Mobile technology provider Exco InTouch has named ex- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) patient recruitment head Judith Teall as its director of patient recruitment to build its in-house expertise in the challenges of patient recruitment to find new places for its technology services on a global basis. "We ...
Doctors want more information on trials
20 August 2009
Efforts by CROs to advertise their trials to physicians in the US are failing, according to a new survey by CenterWatch. Responses from 250 physicians across the US suggest that a lack of information about the drugs in trials prevented them from putting their patients forward. Director of market ...
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FEATURES
A tale of two patients
08 October 2010
When David Hall felt his energy levels fall it was a surprise to him, but to be expected given his recent experiences. A man in his late seventies, he had been active and energetic all his life. However, he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1998 and his wife had been diagnosed with ...
EndPoint: Christine Pierre
09 October 2009
Christine Pierre founded her company, RxTrials, in 2004. She is the past chair of ACRP, and editorial board member of Clinical Trials Advisor and eCliniqu, a member of the steering committee of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative. She co-authored the book Responsible Research: A ...
Location, Location, Location
09 October 2009
Geography, and local knowledge there of, can be a huge factor when recruiting patients for clinical trials. Gerard Dunne of New Zealand-based CRO BELTAS raises important recruitment considerations for those planning on conducting trials downunder. Patient recruitment consumes more time than any ...
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PEOPLE
Biotec hires project managers to support growth
The clinical trials supply company Biotec Services International , has appointed two new project managers to strengthen the company’s expanding team. Clare Aubrey and Nicola Jenkins have been tasked with dealing with the increasing number of studies which are being undertaken by Biotec, which will ...
PharmaNet's Maida joins OncoSec board
OncoSec Medical , a therapeutic oncology company developing its advanced-stage ElectroOncology therapies to treat solid tumour cancers, has appointed Dr Anthony Maida to its board of directors and chair of its audit committee. Dr Maida was most recently vice-president of clinical research and ...
CRO veteran joins Waife & Associates
Waife & Associates , change management consultants in clinical research, has appointed Mark Di Ianni , of MDI Consulting Services , to head up its service provider management practice. Di Ianni has been a senior executive in the CRO industry for 30 years, founding and/or managing a series of ...
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COMMENTARY
Portfolio strategies for maximum effect
If your company is fortunate enough to have multiple projects in your development pipeline, and assuming that you do not have an unlimited resource pool, then you will be faced with some critical choices as to which projects to support and which projects not to support. Support of a project ...
ICH-GCP: older but perhaps not wiser
The ICH Harmonised Tripartite Guideline for Good Clinical Practice E6(R1), to give it its full name, was adopted in Europe in 1996 (and in the US and Japan the following year). The aim of ICH-GCP is to provide a unified standard for the EU, the US and Japan to facilitate the mutual acceptance of ...
Breathing new life into the COPD market
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an umbrella term that refers to chronic lung diseases that share the common feature of restricted airflow. According to the most recent estimates from the WHO, there are currently 210 million COPD patients worldwide, of whom 80 million have moderate ...
Prevention is better than cure
Safety concerns are never far from view where pharmaceutical R&D is concerned. Early pre-clinical testing helps to determine whether a new substance is likely to cause serious adverse events in humans, and whether it should be progressed to clinical trials. While this has been the case for many ...
Excellence in site identification begins at home
We are all aware of a sponsor’s requirement to select investigators who are, as it states in the US Code of Federal Regulations, "qualified by training and experience as appropriate experts to investigate the drug" 1 in accordance with good clinical practices. However, the current competitive ...
Acne market fails to excite
Acne, the scourge of teenagers, is a chronic condition associated with blockage of the pilosebaceous ducts typically on the face, chest and back. The blockage is manifested as a comedo or ‘blackhead’ – the pigmentation is caused by melanin arising from the hair. In cases with more severe blockage ...
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