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United BioSource Corporation (UBC) today announced the acquisition of MetaWorks, Inc., a leading provider of systematic reviews and meta-analyses to inform development, marketing, and regulatory decision-making regarding health care products and services.

Key to improving R&D productivity is the willingness of drug developers to use new discovery tools, such as pharmacogenomics, to accelerate the pace of translating basic research into viable drug candidates, and the aggressive management of clinical trials, through advanced data analysis and outsourcing, to lower cost sites around the world, said Tufts CSDD Director Kenneth I Kaitin.

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Biometrics Comes of Age

Despite accuracy and security concerns, biometrics are gaining in popularity.

At Amsterdam Airport delegates representing the local CRO associations from the Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Spain, Italy and United Kingdom were represented for the inaugural meeting of the European CRO Federation (EUCROF).

Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) has launched a campaign aimed at raising patients' awareness of the potential risks of counterfeit medicines and the danger of buying prescription-only drugs from unregulated websites.

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The New England Journal of Medicine published the results from a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study titled Clinical Antipsychotic Trial of Intervention Effectiveness – Schizophrenia (CATIE–SZ). ICTI is proud to reveal that the data for this study, conducted with 1493 subjects from 57 clinical sites in 24 states, was collected using an early version of ICTI’s iTrial EDC software.