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Star Quintiles Site

Proactive Piedmont Medical

March 11, 2010

We asked Quintiles to tell us about one of the most improved sites or site networks in its five-year-old partner sites program. The contract research organization (CRO) introduced us to Piedmont Medical Research, a group of 11 sites in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The network is based in Winston-Salem, N.C. It's comprised of nine sites…more...

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New Perspective

IAPO Seeks Patient Input

February 23, 2010

If the International Alliance of Patients Organizations (IAPO) gets its way, patients will soon sit at the table with scientists to offer input into the design of study protocols. Not in a forceful or adversarial way, says Jeremiah Mwangi, IAPO's senior policy officer, but in a way that benefits everyone. Picture, for example, a pediatric epilepsy trial…more...

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More Trials?

Preferred Ties To Sites

February 02, 2010

If clinical research were managed like a business, clinical sites would be rewarded for meeting or exceeding patient enrollment targets. But the issue is more complex for both ethical and operational reasons. Some research sites, even poorly performing ones, are appropriately coddled in the service of larger scientific or marketing objectives. And any elevation of a few…more...

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Tech Overload At Sites

Sanofi’s Relationship Overhaul

January 22, 2010

When French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis (SA) recently gathered representatives from several investigator sites to ask them for feedback, the drug maker got a shock. An SA executive began to talk about an electronic collaboration portal, one where sites could interact with the sponsor, and he got cut off by what amounted to boos and hisses. “Turned out,…more...

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Survey Lessons

J&J on Informed Consent

July 23, 2009

In 2006, Johnson & Johnson got hit with a frying pan to the face when the BBC ran an interview with a man involved in a J&J trial on the anti-psychotic Respiradil. The study subject had bipolar disorder, and was told by his doctor that the drug he had been taking was suddenly discontinued and he needed…more...

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Poised for Growth

India Is Hot

June 05, 2009

India! India! Everybody's jumping on the bandwagon. PricewaterhouseCoopers declared recently that “the center of gravity of the global pharmaceutical industry is shifting,” with Asia set to be the world’s largest pharmaceutical market, and India one of the powerhouses of the industry. Then there's KPMG, which estimates that India has the potential to emerge as the foremost destination…more...

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Deep Listening

Patient Recruitment Poetics

February 24, 2009

You can look at patient recruitment as an operational problem. Or as a mathematical challenge. Rob Laurens, director of creative services at BBK Worldwide, would certainly understand those perspectives. But there is also the marketing savvy that helps patients understand whether a trial is right for them.  Laurens spoke about rescue trials at this month’s Clinical Trials…more...

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Lilly, Centocor, Pfizer

2009 Clinical Trials Congress

February 11, 2009

One surprising aspect of the clinical trial landscape is just how few PhDs and physicians share their knowledge, either as industry insiders or academic researchers. The vastness of the global research enterprise does necessarily involve large numbers of other professionals. We know that. But hearing from the experts now and then is nice. We get a large…more...

March 12, 2010

Lilly, Centocor, Pfizer

2009 Clinical Trials Congress

In a sobering but illuminating first day, the 2009 Clinical Trials Congress surveyed the industry and considered a new idea: economics.

Crowdsourcing Drug Safety

iGuard Turns One

iGuard expected to draw 60,000 members in a year. Instead, it attracted 750,000. The coming shift in strategy—and genomics.

Guided By Duke, FDA

CTTI: A Ray Of Hope?

At the RAPS conference, FDA and Duke discuss the audacious Clinical Trial Transformation Initiative.

An Army Of Nurses

CRN: Recruitment Specialists

Things are still going well at CRN, which relies on a network of nurses that can visit patients at home.

'In The Boat' With Acurian

Data-Driven Patient Recruitment

The patient-recruitment firm talks about using the right data and spending what is necessary.

Invivodata Claims Third Of Market

Site Surge: ePRO Update

The Pittsburgh diary company invivodata has been dredging up facts about patient-reported outcomes.


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