news roundup

PAREXEL to Acquire ExecuPharm

PAREXEL's decision to acquire ExecuPharm, a global functional service provider (FSP), is intended to address sponsors’ growing usage of combining different outsourcing models.

Diabetes Drugs Are Harder to Develop

Tufts CSDD recently released results that the development process for new diabetes and non-diabetes endocrine drugs is riskier compared to all drug development.

Clinerion Updates Patient Recruitment System

Clinerion’s updated Patient Recruitment System, which searches electronic health databases of hospitals to find eligible clinical trial candidates, includes a protocol library and collaboration tools.

Is a Clinical Trials a Product or a Service?

In our latest poll, 54% of you said a clinical trial was a service, while 20% of you said it was neither. What is a clinical trial?

Articles

A Self-Sustaining Clinical Trial QMS

This article describes how even smaller clinical research enterprises can leverage clinical technologies to develop an efficient self-sustaining clinical trial Quality Management System.

Specialized Travel Services for Patient Retention

Specialized clinical trials travel services have grown due to the need to address the growing regulatory demands around subject confidentiality.

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Blog Posts

NIH Adoption of Single IRB of Record Has Downstream Effects

Single IRBs of Record for Multi-Site Research, will require researchers to change current practices. As a result, many are looking for transparent, efficient, auditable and scalable technologies to support their trials, manage IRB oversight functions and navigate the changing research environment.

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