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Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc., a healthcare contract service organization, today announced it has partnered with AG Mednet, a global diagnostic imaging network, to provide a complete imaging service for clinical trials.

Drug Safety Alliance (DSA) offered details at the recent Seventh Annual International Users Conference in San Francisco, CA on how a well-designed signal management program and select tools can help pharmaceutical companies with early detection of new safety information.

The Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) has entered into an alliance with the Shanghai Clinical Research Center (SCRC), an organization in China.

Clinical Trials & Surveys Corp. (C-TASC), a clinical trials solutions company, announced today that it has been selected to provide data management software and services to New York University School of Medicine (NYU), one of eight sites collecting data for a study being conducted by the Early Detection Research Network.

IndiPharm has appointed a new director of operations to provide comprehensive clinical research project control in India.

Phase Forward, a provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, today announced that it has been selected as a Technology Pioneer 2009 by the World Economic Forum.

Velos, Inc., a resource for clinical trials management information systems, today announced that it has signed an agreement with the University of Kansas Medical Center (KU Medical Center).

Exco InTouch, a mobile messaging provider for the pharmaceutical industry, announces that its text messaging technology ATLAS has been selected by Pfizer, to enhance the efficacy of its patient recruitment and retention in Phase I clinical trials.

Due to the tragic events that have taken place in Mumbai, DIA has postponed its 3rd Annual Conference on Drug Discovery and Clinical Development in India (December 7-10, 2008).

After spending nearly 30 years specializing in Phase II-IV rheumatology studies, Metroplex Clinical Research Center (MCRC) is broadening its services by adding a Phase I unit in their research facility.

Quintiles Transnational Corp. today announced that it has acquired Targeted Molecular Diagnostics (TMD).

The FDA is requiring that J&J and co-development partner Basilea Pharmaceutica resolve data integrity issues related to its antibiotic drug ceftobiprole

Sermes a contract research organization (CRO) based in Madrid, Spain, has deployed Oracle Clinical applications to support a new business unit focused on clinical trial data management, as well as plans for continued expansion in the global clinical trial market.

INTERLAB (Munich, Germany), the German central laboratory with global operations, increases its European project and data management team by 30% to absorb additional business generated recently.

DATATRAK, a technology and services company focused on global eClinical solutions for the clinical trials industry, today reported that its alliance partner in Japan, NTT DATA Corporation, has placed its first self-designed project using the DATATRAK eClinical platform into production for a Japanese clinical trial.

PAREXEL, a global biopharmaceutical services provider, today announced that it has opened an office in Lima, Peru to provide regulatory consulting and clinical research capabilities.

In a sharp break with Washington tradition, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif) unseated long-time top Democrat on the House Energy & Commerce Committee, John Dingell (D-Mich), to become the panel's new chairman.

President-elect Barak Obama selects former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle as secretary of Health and Human Services.

ProTrials Research, Inc. today announced that it has been awarded top honors in the 5th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business.

QED Clinical Services, a contract research organization, is using the IT Farm's Web-based IT for its offices as far afield as Russia, India and China.

Quintiles and SAS are developing a unique program to produce certified specialists in the use of SAS programming to evaluate clinical trials results.

Jubilant Organosys Ltd. announced today that its subsidiary Clinsys Clinical Research, Inc., New Jersey, a global contract research organization (CRO), has acquired TrialStat ClinicalAnalytics from TrialStat for a purchase consideration of CAD 750,000.

ICON plc today announced that it has signed an agreement with Eli Lilly and Company to manage the company's clinical data management business outside the United States.

DIA, the multidisciplinary, non-profit association that provides a neutral forum for the exchange of information critical to the advancement of the drug discovery and life cycle management processes, has opened an office in Beijing, China.

Octagon Research Solutions Inc. has been named to Deloitte?s prestigious Fast 50 Program for Greater Philadelphia, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in the area by Deloitte LLP, one of the nation?s leading professional services organizations.

Bioanalytical Systems, Inc announced today that Anthony S. Chilton, Ph.D. is joining the Company as Chief Operating Officer, Scientific Services, effective December 1, 2008.

Abingdon Life Sciences and Stason Pharmaceuticals have extended their strategic alliance, which was originally announced on August 4th 2008.

ICON plc, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries, today announced that is has acquired Prevalere Life Sciences Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ORS Labs Inc.

Synexus is planning to more than double its clinical trial capacity in South Africa through the expansion of its Pretoria facilities and by opening two purposed designed sites, one in Mamelodi and one in Soshanguwe.

Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. has been ranked number 417 among the fastest growing companies in North America on Deloitte?s 2008 Technology Fast 500.