7 Questions For Core Labs
August 18, 2010
What are appropriate turnaround times as images pass through the different stages of a clinical trial? Is the pharmaceutical industry applying outmoded thinking?
Here's the context for such questions. A few weeks back, we ran an article on benchmarks in imaging. In brief, Perceptive Informatics, a division of Parexel, had adopted some standards in consultation with a…more...
Perceptive & MCC
June 24, 2010
This reporter is always disheartened when lawyers are ridiculed. Lately, we've been saddened by the news that a few law schools, just trying to help graduates find employment, have unilaterally granted all their students better grades. A formula here, a few computer key strokes there—and bingo! All of the lawyers just got smarter.
Elastic metrics are not…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...
Thursday News
June 18, 2009
Dublin-based Icon has signed a collaborative agreement with the Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust (CMFT) to develop a translational medicine facility. Icon is designing the unit, scheduled for completion in 2012. Before that, Icon is transferring its current pharmacology services into research facilities at CMFT's Manchester Royal Infirmary. Said Mike Deegan, chief executive of CMFT: “This…more...
Academic Access
WorldCare Enhances System
Imaging CRO WorldCare gets a heavy-hitting CMO and beefs up its in-house system.
Consistent Adjudication
Icon Sees Cardiac Opportunity
Shortly after the release of new FDA guidance on diabetes trials, Icon Medical Imaging unveiled software to help.
New Cardio Capability
Icon Enhances Imaging Software
Icon’s program can move electronic caliper data in heart studies directly into a case report form.
Image Of Efficiency
AG Mednet: Pictures, Moved
AG Mednet is partnering with Phase Forward to facilitate industrial-strength image management and transfers.
EDC & Imaging Combination
Bio-Imaging, PDS Seek More Size
Why Bio-Imaging bought a top electronic data capture company.
Perfect Pictures
Imaging A-Team At Perceptive
The head of Perceptive Informatics talks about the growth of imaging use in trials, both as a way to reach an endpoint faster, and as a way to weed out ineffective compounds early.
Custom Training DVDs
Lights, Camera, Enroll!
Integrated Clinical Trial Services has come up with a nifty way to increase enrollment: Hollywood-worthy, modular DVDs.
