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African-American patient recruitment: Trust matters

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Inherent in effective patient recruitment for clinical trials is gaining sufficient trust from prospective subjects. Although this can be considered a universal predicate to study participation, there is a considerably greater need for this foundation when it comes to African-American patient populations, according to Carmen Gonzalez, manager of strategy and ...

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Quintiles backs innovative breast cancer trial

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Today, Quintiles got into the "spy" game - the I-SPY 2 clinical trial, to be exact. The contract research organization has committed a total of $2.6 million over four years to support the trial, formally known as the "Investigation of Serial Studies to Predict Your Therapeutic Response with Imaging and Molecular ...

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Mental illness R&D reaches record level

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Offering further proof of the lucrative appeal of mental health drugs despite the continuing minefield for researchers, there are a record 313 new drugs in development to treat conditions ranging from Alzheimerâ€™s disease and depression to schizophrenia and addictive disorders, according to a new report by the Pharmaceutical Researchers and ...

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StudyOptimizer gets patient enrollment programs back on track

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Bringing a drug to market in a timely fashion is difficult and one of the biggest challenges facing pharmaceutical companies. Due to patent expirations, shrinking drug pipelines, and the financial crisis on Wall Street, manufacturers are being forced to speed up the drug-delivery process to bring drugs to market and ...

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Kareem news puts rare cancer in spotlight

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

As a lifelong Philadelphia 76ers fan, I grew up rooting against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. After all, the big, bad Lakers were always the one team blocking my beloved Sixers â€“ led by Dr. J and company â€“ from winning the NBA championship until â€œweâ€ finally broke through in 1983, sweeping L.A. ...

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Regulatory minds meet in Philly

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Â The City of Brotherly Love is the site of this week's Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society'sÂ 2009 Annual Conference & Exhibition. With much change afoot these days at FDA and healthcare reform dominating the American consciousness (more on that later), it's no surprise the theme for this year's event is "Succeed in ...

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