Applied Clinical Trials-12-01-2003

A dictionary of words and phrases whcih are crucial to the world of clinical trials.

Somewhere in a closed conference room, the IT wizards are plotting the data strategy of your company or institution. They are wrestling with the vast amount of raw data that is being collected and the challenges of making that data available as information to help in making decisions.

A full listing of college and university courses, training classes, and other educational opportunities.

This past year has been one of tremendous activity at the Food and Drug Administration, and at other government agencies involved with healthcare, biomedical research, and national security.

These names, numbers, and titles are a phone directory for the regulatory world.

A listing of the alphabet soup of acronyms, abbreviations, and initials in the clinical trial world.

Europe has a new system for pharmacovigilance for human medicines up and running. It's a data-processing network and database management system for dealing with Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs) in 18 countries-Iceland, Norway and Lichtenstein, in addition to the 15 European Union member states.

Find out about the purposes, rates, meetings, and publications of over two dozen socieites and associations.