The FDA announced a new project to study drug safety. The FDA is not officially involved in the effort, but heralded the Predictive Safety Testing Consortium all the same. The consortium combines the efforts of Arizona’s quasi-governmental C-Path Institute and five pharmaceutical companies. They’ll share internally developed laboratory methods to…more...

PHT, the patient diary company, is having a webinar on electronic patient-reported outcomes. You can register for the online event here: /www.phtcorp.com/Subjects/>>>. Valdo Arnera, M.D., will re-deliver his presentation from the European Drug Information Association (DIA) meeting held earlier this year. Topics include the anxiety subjects may feel using technology,…more...

One large American company accused another of lying to America’s dentists. Procter & Gamble says Pfizer ads for Listerine mouthwash are erroneous. Pfizer has similar complaints about Procter & Gamble’s mouthwash. It’s all playing out in federal court in New York. Some of the numbers are interesting. P&G has spent…more...

Database giant Oracle said profits for the recent quarter were $765 million, a sharp rise above the $540 million at the same point a year ago. Revenue was up 18 percent, to $3.5 billion. Sales of new licenses totaled $1.1 billion during the period. It’s no secret that much of…more...

British and German police are considering criminal charges in the wake of a clinical trial gone awry in London. It’s not clear whether the target of such an investigation would be the sponsor of the trial, TeGenero AG, or the contract research organization (CRO) conducting it, Parexel International. Investors punished…more...

Bayer has selected biomarker informatics software from Genedata. The gene expression tools will be used at multiple research sites in Germany and U.S. that are studying cancer and heart disease. The Genedata Expressionist product is designed for data integration, processing and analysis. It uses statistical algorithms and visualization tools with…more...

Costa Rica could be an enticing new location for business development, says the Los Angeles Times. Costa Rica exports more software per capita than any other country in Latin America. Could it be another Singapore? It’s hard to say. But MedTech Group of New Jersey, a manufacturer of surgical tools,…more...

A scientific modeling company, Simulations Plus, announced a new version of its flagship product, ClassPharmer.  David Miller, senior scientist and product manager for ClassPharmer at Simulations Plus, said: “Major revisions in the algorithms, coupled with a transition to a faster programming language, resulted in a ten- to thousand-fold speed increase…more...

The simulation firm Entelos has expanded its collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development (J&JPRD). The new arrangement includes multiple therapeutic areas over a five-year term. During the first year of this new agreement, Entelos will dedicate several teams of research engineers and life scientists to support specific…more...

Fast Track Systems announced that Shire plc has selected TrialSpace Grants Manager and Crocas PBT for its global clinical trial planning and budgeting activities. Fast Track has industry-wide data on clinical trial costs, which it sells to sponsors of clinical trials. “Shire proactively seeks solutions that can assist us in…more...