
Almac announced the expansion of its shipping service for clinical trials to EU countries.

Almac announced the expansion of its shipping service for clinical trials to EU countries.


The US ophthalmology-focused CRO will use the solution to provide real-time key operational parameters.



The world of RBM is continually changing as biopharmaceutical enterprises are dabbling into different approaches and methods. There are several outsourced models that exist, when approaching RBM, such as integrating cloud-based solutions to provide centralized monitoring teams with analytics, or fully outsourcing RBM functions and technologies to CROs. However, some companies, such as Novartis, appear to be in-sourcing their RBM technologies and functions.

BioClinica’s eHealth App xChange provides access to an ecosystem of integrated mobile and cloud applications.


A staggering number of clinical trials fail to meet recruitment goals, which leads to delays, early trial termination, or inability to draw conclusions at trial completion due to loss of statistical power.

PPD and CISYS LifeSciences announced PPD’s implementation of Sequence WebEAS, a new Web-based event adjudication system, through a collaboration between the two companies.


Kayentis, a French software provider specialized in solutions for clinical trials, has chosen SFR Business Team for its M2M roaming in close to 250 countries.

The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) has granted approval for what is thought to be the first use of electronic informed consent in England.

As the push to contain clinical trial costs and make informed business decisions continues, more pharma and CROs are looking at internal and external benchmarking and metrics to evaluate their performance-both successes and challenges. This e-Book includes articles that show how analytics uncover problem areas in clinical operations, as well as metrics and databases that are used to pinpoint internal or external performance issues.

An article recently appeared in Applied Clinical Trials, which indicated that oncology trials are taking longer to complete, and the article suggested that the duration of oncology clinical trials in certain phases increased by one year to one and a half years.1 Moreover, the article delineates that ameliorations in trial duration were most likely a result of increasing protocol complexi

Across the pharmaceutical industry, advances in digital technology play a key role in driving the efficiency of the drug development process, particularly for clinical trials.


The Top 5 Risk-Based Monitoring Articles

INTERLAB and synlab have been successfully cooperating since 2004.


Will emerging drug cost assessment initiatives provide useful, valid information on total drug value?

This experimental technique is being studied to see whether it could treat certain health problems.


Admedus adopts the Medidata Clinical Cloud® to bring greater speed and efficiency to it’s genital herpes therapeutic vaccine study.

Implementation establishes foundation for sustainable growth in early phase clinical research


Clinical trials are time sensitive, costly endeavors with high-risk and high-expectations at every juncture.


CRF Health, a provider of electronic Clinical Outcome Assessment (eCOA) solutions, has been selected as a partner of choice by two top tier pharmaceutical companies.