Latest News on Clinical Trials
Finland’s FIT Biotech Oy: EHVA starts recruiting participants to clinical trial testing FIT Biotech’s vaccine
Finland: EHVA starts recruiting participants to clinical trial testing FIT Biotech's vaccine European EHVA-vaccine alliance (European HIV Vaccine Alliance, EHVA) starts clinical trials including FIT Biotech Oy's ("Company", FITBIO: FN Finland) therapeutic HIV...
University of Michigan seeks volunteers for Alzheimer’s clinical trial
Martin Slagter for Mlive.com writes: November is Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month and a researchers at the University of Michigan are seeking volunteers to help them learn more about early detection of the disease and how it progresses. The clinical trial is...
GSK begins clinical trials of pancreatic cancer combination
GlaxoSmithKline plans to carry out clinical trials on its pancreatic drug hopeful, GSK547, following promising results when treating mice and laboratory-grown tumour cells. The experimental drug was found to be effective when paired with Merck & Co’s checkpoint...
West Virginia University first site to launch clinical trial utilizing non-opioid micropellet implant for chronic pain
As part of an ongoing commitment to battle opioid addiction, the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) at West Virginia University today (Nov. 15) marked a major milestone, enrolling the first patient in a randomized clinical trial that will test the effectiveness...
CCRM Offers Breakthrough Clinical Trial of Non-Invasive Preimplantation Genetic Testing to Patients
Pioneers in reproductive medicine to recruit patients for clinical trial of new method of testing embryos for chromosome abnormalities CCRM (Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine), a global pioneer in fertility science, research and advancement, today announced...
Global Survey Reveals CROs Leading Industrywide Shift to Modernize Clinical Trial Processes
91% of CROs taking steps to unify clinical operations for better visibility and improved study execution Contract research organizations (CROs) are driving industrywide momentum to unify clinical systems and streamline trial processes, according to a new global...
Natera and Neon Therapeutics Announce Clinical Trial Collaboration to Assess Treatment Response to Personal Cancer Vaccine
Combines Neon's Personal Neoantigen Vaccine and Signatera (RUO) Circulating Tumor DNA Biomarker in Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Trial Natera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRA), a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, and Neon Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTGN), a...
Improving patient engagement using digital health in clinical trials
Nancy Crotti for Medical Design & Outsourcing writes (excerpted): Having a unified patient experience can also improve retention by resolving problems that could cause patient dropout or lack of usable trial data. When a patient’s digital health device indicates...
How to fulfill China’s potential for carrying out clinical trials
Excerpted from BMJ, Liming Lu, Yuqing Zhang, Gordon Guyatt, Chunzhi Tang, Nenggui Xu write: China has the potential to become one of the world’s most favoured sites for performing clinical trials.[1] Since 2008,[1] although China has seen a decline in the growth...
FDA In Brief: FDA launches new digital tool to help capture data from patients in clinical trials to help inform regulatory decision-making
“There are a lot of new ways that we can use real world evidence to help inform regulatory decisions around medical products as the collection of this data gets more widespread and reliable. Better capture of real world data, collected from a variety of sources, has...
Digital Clinical Trials: A framework for success
Excerpted from PMLive.com, There is increasing interest in digital trials, that is the use of mHealth and mobile technology to capture insights outside the traditional clinical setting. The drivers are clear – spiralling costs, questions with respect to existing...
How Facebook and Twitter could be the next disruptive force in clinical trials
Heidi Ledford for Nature writes (excerpt): "As companies increasingly focus on rare diseases and precision medicine tailored to a specific subset of patients, it has become more difficult to find willing volunteers who meet the necessary criteria. Recruitment and...
McGill, Yale and Universities of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Join PanFAM-1, the Largest Ever Prospective Multicenter Clinical Study for Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer
New centers give study near complete coverage of North American FPC sites in drive to validate IMMrayTM PanCan-d, the first blood based test for early detection of pancreatic cancer Immunovia AB today announced that four additional North American Familial Pancreatic...
Examining the Technology for Clinical Trials
Mike Novotny for EPM Magazine writes (excerpt) "Among the greatest factors behind the recruitment and retention struggles the industry faces are a wariness of unproven treatments (often referred to as the ‘guinea pig fear’) and the fact that, for many potential...
RegeneRx Partner Updates on Clinical Trials
RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCQB: RGRX) ("the Company" or "RegeneRx"), a clinical-stage drug development company focused on tissue protection, repair and regeneration, today announced a clinical trial update provided by GtreeBNT, RegeneRx's partner...
Clinical Trial Expected to Yield Promising Results for Oral Cancer Patients
Privo Technologies was granted the green light from the FDA and several hospitals this summer to begin patient recruitment for a prospective clinical trial (NCT03502148) targeting early-stage oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC). Privo is now...
The Importance of Diversity in Clinical Trials
Chelsea Weidman Burke for Biospace writes (excerpted) The lack of diversity (regarding clinical trials) isn’t limited to African Americans – most clinical trials lacked participation from other minorities too. Although Asians are well represented in some...
Content That Clicks: Effective Social Marketing for Clinical Trial Recruitment
Ed Miseta, for the Clinical Leader wrote, (excerpt) The study, titled Content That Clicks: Effective Social Marketing for Clinical Trial Recruitment, notes four key findings. First, the recall rate of clinical trial ads is high. In other words, patients...
Building Flexibility, Responsiveness into Clinical Trial Patient Travel & Expense Programs
The Colpitts Clinical Team says that 80% of new business comes from trial sponsors and site coordinators who see the value in patient centric, customized clinical trial patient travel and expense programs. Features such as 24/7 phone support, custom...
A Clinical Trial Project Manager’s Most Important Skill is Communication
Jayesh Chaudhary is a co-founder and CEO of Vedic Lifesciences, a “verifiable” CRO serving the nutra industry for more than 17 years. He wrote an informative article titled, Understanding Clinical Trials that is excerpted below, wherein he speaks to the Project...