Survey Data
April 01, 2010
Five years ago, when Christine Pierre attempted to bring together clinical investigators and other site leaders to casually discuss their best practices, it didn't go as she'd hoped. She sent out 1,000 invitations. Representatives from ten sites showed up. “In all honesty, it was a huge failure,” says Pierre, president of Baltimore area-based RxTrials, a 16-year-old site…more...
Thin The Herd
March 29, 2010
"The industry has bottomed out and is on its way up," says Norman Goldfarb, chairman of the Model Agreement Group Initiative (MAGI), a volunteer organization dedicated to streamlining clinical research.
Twice a year, on the east and west coasts respectively, Goldfarb helps to plan the MAGI conference. For 2010, the eastern conference is scheduled for the last…more...
Winner: BioClinica
June 26, 2009
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie care about drug development? They suddenly hunger to learn more about sponsor-CRO partnerships, PDUFA and Critical Path, and thus they showed up at the Drug Information Association's (DIA) 45th annual meeting to drink it all in? They are curious about science in addition to being gorgeous, rich and fertile?
Wait—those were actually…more...
PHT Announcement
March 23, 2009
Hey! Can you reset my password? Now?
Inside or outside the clinical trial world, that is one of the most mundane and routine requests made to software help desks. Ediary firm PHT says the ongoing hassle has now been simplified in its StudyWorks system. The system has now been updated to allow users to administer their own…more...
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.
Reorg, New CEO
etrials: Technology Will Be Key
A conversation with Denis Connaghan of etrials, who recently became the new CEO of etrials.
'Absolutely overwhelming'
FDAAA Update At DIA
FDA’s Sandy Kweder painted a portrait of an agency straining to deliver on the many elements of FDAAA.
Kendle, Langland, Dybedal
Finding More Patients Globally
The tribulations of filling your trial in the era of global studies. A report from the 2008 DIA conference.
Finger Friendly
PHT Debuts Touch-Screen Device
PHT offers a new Windows device from HP for recording patient experiences.
DIA Pre-think
Rivers of Clinical Bits
What’s different this year. Random thoughts on our personal nemesis, paper, and the alternative.
A-List Of Speakers At Harvard
Post-Approval? Or Pre-Apocalypse?
With Mark McClellan and Janet Woodcock on the agenda, the Outcome meeting will be another illuminating event this year.
