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Tag: Clinical Trials


Innovation, Med Tech

How Open-Source Technologies Will Transform Digital Clinical Trials

February 14, 2024

Via: HitConsultant

Although the traditional nearly decade-long clinical trial timelines completely collapsed during COVID, this truncating was not necessarily novel. Precedent exists for accelerating approval timelines during health emergencies such as the AIDs/HIV epidemic, where Compound S, a re-make of AZT, or […]


Innovation, Research

The New Era of Clinical Trials: Adopting Electronic Informed Consent

January 17, 2024

Via: HitConsultant

The clinical trials landscape continues to evolve and with it, an exponential growth in the adoption of electronic informed consent (eConsent) solutions. These solutions deliver a myriad of benefits for trial sponsors, sites and patients. However, there is still some […]


News

How to Achieve Health Equity in Decentralized Clinical Trials

June 29, 2023

Via: HitConsultant

Trial sponsors have made efforts to address underrepresentation and promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in clinical trials since the Federal and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2016 guidance, but a new report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) still shows […]


Innovation, Research

Clario and Sleepiz to jointly bring radar signal sleep monitoring to clinical trials

June 23, 2023

Via: Medical Device Network

Researchers investigating sleep in clinical trials will have a new option to monitor parameters after Clario and Sleepiz teamed up to offer the tech to pharmaceutical clients. Current studies that evaluate the effects of treatments on sleep usually rely on […]


Innovation, Med Tech

Can Technology Live Up to Its Promise for Clinical Trials?

April 4, 2023

Via: HitConsultant

For many years, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) had a reputation in the biopharmaceutical industry as flashy buzzwords, with little concrete evidence to back up their promise. Over time, this lack of understanding has […]


Regulatory

5 Components of a Patient-Centric eCOA Strategy for Oncology Clinical Trials

February 20, 2023

Via: HitConsultant

In the US alone, an estimated 1.9 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2022, positioning oncology as a key subject of clinical research. Throughout oncology trial development, it is important that stakeholders acknowledge that only patients can fully […]


Innovation, Patient Experience

It’s Time to Talk About Paying Clinical Trial Participants More

January 12, 2023

Via: Health IT Answers

Clinical trials do not exist without us, so we need to demand more from them. I have cystic fibrosis (CF), a rare genetic condition that was historically known as a childhood disease. Today, CF is anything but that, and it’s […]


News

COVID-19 vaccine prices are going up. It shouldn’t be our focus.

January 10, 2023

Via: Healthcare Dive

Amid a “triple-demic” of respiratory illness, vaccination rates for COVID-19 and influenza are concerningly low. Instead of misplaced attention to the per-unit commercial list price of vaccines, we should be focused on vaccinating as many people as possible to reduce […]


Innovation, Research

Modernizing Clinical Trials in 2023 with Patient Centricity

December 13, 2022

Via: Health IT Answers

Patients suffering from chronic illness are often eager to participate in clinical trials with the hopes of finding a more effective treatment for themselves and others with their condition. This is especially true in the case of rare diseases, as […]


Innovation, Research

FDA Further Harmonizing Clinical Research Regulations with HHS Common Rule

October 11, 2022

Via: Health IT Answers

Clinical trials play a crucial role in advancing science and supporting the development of new medical products to address unmet patient needs. Reliable data from well-designed trials about a medical product’s safety and effectiveness are critical to the U.S. Food […]


Innovation, Med Tech

FDA approves clinical trials of Abiomed’s Impella heart pumps

September 19, 2022

Via: Medical Device Network

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted two approvals related to the clinical research of Abiomed’s Impella heart pumps. The regulator has approved the on-label RECOVER IV randomised controlled trial (RCT) of Impella heart pumps in acute myocardial […]


News

Power Launches with $7M to Diversify Clinical Trials

August 31, 2022

Via: HitConsultant

Eighty-six percent of U.S. clinical trials are delayed because of lack of enrollment, creating a massive bottleneck in disease research and drug development — and costing the life science system billions of dollars. Even more distressing: Less than 5 percent […]


Innovation, Research

H1 & Lokavant Partner to Power Next-Gen Clinical Trials

August 3, 2022

Via: HitConsultant

Lokavant is a clinical intelligence platform that improves the time, cost, and quality of trial planning and execution through data-driven analytics applications. Lokavant’s platform aggregates and integrates real-time data from disparate trial data sources, and powers advanced analytics enabled by […]


Innovation, Research

Global trial demonstrates some benefits of flu shots for heart failure patients

April 4, 2022

Via: ScienceDaily

People with heart failure who received an annual flu shot had lower rates of pneumonia and hospitalization on a year-round basis and a reduction in major cardiovascular events during peak flu season, in a study presented at the American College […]


Innovation, Research

Analysis offers new insights on the placebo effect and how to harness its therapeutic potential

February 22, 2022

Via: ScienceDaily

A network of brain regions activated by the placebo effect overlaps with several regions targeted by brain-stimulation therapy for depression, according to a new analysis by a team that included several researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), who collaborated with […]


News

FDA approves Medtronic’s new TAVR system for aortic stenosis treatment

August 25, 2021

Via: medicaldevice-network.com

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Medtronic’s latest self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) system for the treatment of symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. The Evolut FX TAVR system can offer easy usage as well as increased accuracy […]


Innovation, Research

Clinical trials during a pandemic – lessons from COVID-19

July 23, 2021

Via: The Medical News

A number of clinical pathologists from Cerba Laboratory recently presented some approaches on how to manage SARS CoV 2 variants during the clinical trial process. Dr. Benedicte Roquebert is based in the microbiology department of Cerba Laboratory and works on […]


Biomarker, Innovation

Finding Benefits in Cancer; Trial Slowdowns; Metastatic Breast Ca Surgery

December 30, 2020

Via: MedPageToday

A majority of patients with colorectal cancer found at least one benefit from their diagnosis. (Fox Chase Cancer Center) Half of disruptions in ongoing clinical trials resulted from slow patient enrollment. (GlobalData) Laboratory studies suggested that a drug used to […]


Innovation, Research

Coronavirus clinical trials are pausing over safety concerns – here’s what that means

October 15, 2020

Via: CNBC

Coronavirus clinical trials from drug giants Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly hit a snag this week after safety monitors halted them over bad reactions from participants. J&J said Monday it paused the late-stage trial of its coronavirus vaccine candidate […]


Innovation, Research

Two clinical trials use low-dose X-rays to treat COVID-19 pneumonia

June 17, 2020

Via: The Medical News

Previous studies have shown that low-dose, whole lung radiation in the form of X-rays can effectively treat severe pneumonia, with minimal side effects. Two clinical trials are applying a modern version of this concept to test patients who have acute […]