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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Jim Murray Speaks His Mind in OpenMedicine, EU

By Peter ODonnell | Published: March 30, 2011
I’m not sure what the etiquette is for bloggers mentioning other bloggers—but I’ve never been overly concerned about etiquette, so here goes. There’s a very interesting blog called OpenMedicine.EU examining science, transparency, and medicines in the EU. It’s interesting for at least two reasons.
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Land of Ceilidh, Craic, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease

By Edna Astbury-Ward | Published: March 28, 2011
Well, it was for at least four glorious days in late February, when 3,509 delegates from 68 countries were enthralled by 401 oral presentations, six satellite symposia, and 381 posters. Nearly 1,000 hotel rooms were booked in the city of Dublin alone. All this is a far cry from the origins of the European Crohn’s and [...]
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Forum in Thailand

By Tim Denman | Published: March 25, 2011
As clinical trial outsourcing in Asia continues to grow, it becomes increasingly important for sponsors and CROs to become familiar with Asian culture and research practices. What better way to get to know the traditions, heritage, and habits of a people than to visit them on their home turf?
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Closure of Pfizer Sandwich: Loss of Confidence in UK Science or Dawn of New Era?

By Claude Kaplan | Published: March 23, 2011
The announcement in February 2011 that Pfizer will close its global research center based at Sandwich, UK over the next two years, with the resultant loss of 2,400 jobs, has sent shockwaves through the UK’s science community and its policy makers. Is this really an indication that, in the words of Professor Blakemore of Oxford [...]
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I’m Very Reluctant to Use IVR

By Wayne Kubick | Published: March 18, 2011
Confession: I really don’t like using the voice telephone very much anymore. E-mail is easy—can do it at my convenience in batches. Text is fine—can get a response quickly even if I don’t reach the person I need right away. Web is best—I can take my time, absorb what I need, and see what I’m [...]
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Get a Handle On Late Phase Research

By Lisa Henderson | Published: March 16, 2011
Last week, Oracle Health Sciences and Applied Clinical Trials held a Webcast titled “Using Web-based Capture in Late Phase Research and Patient Registries.” The speakers were Scott Dixon, Global Strategist for Late Phase and Direct to Patient at Oracle Health Sciences, and Jeffrey Trotter, Executive Vice President at PharmaNet. Because I’m the moderator, I have an [...]
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Oncology and Imaging Come Together in Vienna

By Philip Ward | Published: March 14, 2011
There was an intriguing session at the European Congress of Radiology, held in Vienna at the start of this month. Called “Imaging as the number one for oncology trials,” it was jointly organized by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and the European Society of Radiology (ESR). Working for the past 20 [...]
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Bringing the Boys from Brazil On-Side

By Peter ODonnell | Published: March 9, 2011
It wasn’t to upgrade its skills in celebrating Mardi Gras that the European Medicines Agency invited regulators from Brazil to its very uncarnivalesque headquarters in London last week. But the outcome of the meeting will play a small role in keeping patients and trial subjects healthier and, hopefully, happier.
 The occasion was a three-day training course [...]
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Collaborative Trials

By Tim Denman | Published: March 7, 2011
The competition be damned: one of the tenets of business drilled into the heads of eager Business 101 students. But does that basic business concept hold water in today’s evolving clinical trials landscape? Arthur Moss, MD, Charles Francis, MD, and Daniel Ryan, MD, argue in the March 3 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine [...]
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Samsung Group Partners With Quintiles On $266 Million Venture

By Kayda Norman | Published: March 4, 2011
Since entering the world of clinical trials, I have learned about a number of companies and terms that were otherwise foreign to me in the past such as EDC, PRO, and SDV. In an industry where it seems virtually everyone has had 20 plus years experience, it can sometimes be daunting to try to play [...]
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