Phase Forward appointed J. Jay Volkert as manager of its government division at its Lincoln Technologies subsidiary. The company said Dr. Volkert has 25 years of experience in providing consulting and IT services to federal health care agencies. “Dr. Volkert’s extensive experience in the federal and health care sectors will…more...

Phase Forward’s Paul Bleicher will join the board of Teranode Corporation, which develops experiment design automation software. “Paul’s perspectives on the Life Sciences market and strong relationships across the industry will be of enormous benefit to our customers,” said Joe Duncan, Teranode’s CEO. “As Teranode executes its next phase of…more...

Metadata—information about a particular document—was one of the surprises that has come back to haunt Merck in its Vioxx mess. Information that Merck employees thought they had deleted was in fact forwarded to a leading medical journal. Now Microsoft, in a forthcoming release of its operating system, will be taking…more...

Phase Forward announced that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the U.K.‘s regulatory agency, has implemented the company’s Lincoln Technologies pharmacovigilance signal detection and signal management software, WebVDME. The software will be used by MHRA clinicians, pharmacists and scientists to examine reports of suspected drug side effects from…more...

After digesting $19 billion in acquisitions, Oracle will cut 2,000 jobs and post a restructuring charge of $725 to $800 million. The latest charge, the database company said, is due to the Siebel acquisition, and mostly reflects real estate costs and severance payments. After the firings, the company will have…more...