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May 17, 2008

We're Not Sweatshops

ACRO Responds to NEJM

After a thrashing from the NEJM, the CRO industry responds—politely. 

CRO Industry In FDA Limbo?

NEJM Indicts CROs

The journal has ‘discovered’ the contract research organization (CRO). And the CRO-sponsor relationship has new risks.

Healthy Sponsor Spending for 2007

ACRO’s Peddicord Weighs in

Douglas Peddicord, executive director of trade group ACRO, talks about macro trends shaping the industry and its customers.

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We're Not Sweatshops

ACRO Responds to NEJM

January 02, 2008

By SuzR

The recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) article that criticized contract research organizations (CROs) was a roundhouse kick to the gut of that industry. The Oct. 4, 2007 article, written by New York psychiatrist and professor Miriam Shuchman, asserted…

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CRO Industry In FDA Limbo?

NEJM Indicts CROs

October 18, 2007

By Mark Uehling

The October 4, 2007, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is not online for free; we can’t link to it. But it contains a discussion of the booming contract research organization (CRO) industry. The CRO industry’s growth…

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Healthy Sponsor Spending for 2007

ACRO’s Peddicord Weighs in

April 20, 2007

By SuzR

ClinPage’s recently spent a while picking the brain of Douglas Peddicord, executive director of the Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO). This former clinical psychologist spent 10 years as a lobbyist for various health care provider groups…