Applied Clinical Trials-06-01-2005

Addressing the health needs of host nations while guarding against subject exploitation and other pitfalls.

Achieving quality viral biomarker data from around the globe that measure up to standard protocol requirements

For truly informed consent, methods should gauge a subject's real grasp of a clinical trial's complexities.

A high-quality medical infrastructure and low costs make South Africa--largely an untapped opportunity--an attractive alternative for conducting clinical trials.

Adequate female representation is mandatory, but gender differences should not be overestimated.

Based on the numbers, sponsors will rapidly change their clinical trials midstream.

A groundbreaking article from the last decade is just as applicable today.

Clinical departments are very expensive to run and maintain.

Regulators and researchers seek to curb the overload on IRBs and harmonize AER policies.

For the EU, these new good clinical practice rules come not from Brussels, but Mt. Sinai.

Following more than two decades of growing involvement in nearly all aspects of drug development, full-service and niche-services contract research organizations (CROs) have become a common and integral part of most sponsor companies' clinical research teams.

What you need to know to save the bottom line...and your sanity.

Target Health and Infacare used a CRF database to answer all of FDA's questions.