Cogstate announced a new tool to share data from neurological testing. In a 21 CFR Part 11-compliant manner, the company’s DataPoint product shares results from cognitive testing in clinical trials. The company’s technology has been used in more than 30 clinical trials. The Australian firm touts the following benefits of…more...
Quintiles Transnational will open a central lab in Mumbai, India. According to a news release, the facility will be equipped and staffed before the end of 2006 and is expected to be ready to support new trials by the first quarter of 2007. The lab is located in Leela Business…more...
Shares in contract research organization Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) dropped 4 percent yesterday after the company said its president was leaving. Wall street analysts, however, are uniformly upbeat on the company’s prospects. Everything is going smoothly at the company: revenue in the quarter was up 15 percent. Growth in its…more...
Authorities in Canada are changing the rules for clinical trials. They’re taking a more proactive stance than colleagues in Britain, which saw 6 patients severely injured in a clinical trial earlier in 2006. (In the most serious case, one British patient lost his fingers and toes.) The Canadians have implemented…more...
Parexel International acquired the California Clinical Trials Medical Group for $65 million. Founded in 1981, California Clinical Trials Medical Group (CCTMG) has 180 employees and is based in Glendale, California, where one of four facilities has 16 exam rooms. The firm does research in trials from Phase I-IV. CCTMG says…more...
Clinical data management is not really an endangered species. But it is threatened. That’s because some companies believe that massive, traditional systems to manage clinical trial data could be made obsolete by electronic data capture (EDC) tools that do some of the same tasks. An Asian contract research organization (CRO)…more...
Animal rights activists in the Phoenix area had threatened to block a 300,000 square foot testing facility planned by Covance. The new facility was to employ 300-500 workers at first, and expand to 2,000. At the last minute, in a news conference with unusual security, Covance stunned the Arizona animal…more...
Contract research giant PPD saw its fourth quarter profit rise 27 percent. “In a quarter that has been historically light, PPD delivered its second largest quarter of gross and net new business on record, as well as year-over-year margin expansion in the development segment,” Chief Executive Fred Eshelman said in…more...
A patient in a doomed London clinical trial has spoken to the media. Ryan Wilson says he will probably lose parts of his fingers and toes, which have turned black with gangrene. He could be in the hospital until September. Each volunteer in the trial received $3,500. The sponsor of…more...
PharmaLink signed a three-year license to extend its use of Phase Forward’s software for electronic data capture (EDC). PharmaLink dubs itself an electronic contract research organization (eCRO), and said the tools would allow it to be more effective. “We realized InForm’s benefits long ago and have shared many successful implementations…more...
December 3, 2008
According to research firm Frost & Sullivan, the global outsourcing market is poised to get far larger, and fast.
Target Health has had good news this year, as the company’s Jules Mitchel relates of his EDC and document management systems.
The staffing company/CRO combo Trio Clinical Research takes on two equity partners and a C-level acquisition strategist from PRA International.
Feasibility studies are becoming more accepted, but misconceptions may also be proliferating. Thoughts from MDS Pharma.
Manhattan-based Clinilabs, started by a sleep researcher, has elected to expand into data management.
Josef von Rickenbach discusses electronic data capture, Interactive voice response, and why the industry should not adopt new technologies rapidly.
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