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Industry news focusing on the people and organizations who work in the clinical trials profession.

Insight into obtaining insurance for a clinical trial and if or when it should be left to the professionals.

DATATRAK International, Inc., a technology and services company focused on global eClinical solutions for the clinical trials industry, has announced the newest release of its DATATRAK eClinical(TM) product suite.

An in depth look at industry's reaction to FDAAA, its requirements, submitting the results, and meeting the deadline.

After almost a decade of dim progress in drug development, R&D is finally making a come back, according to current data published in Parexel International's, "The U.S. Drug Approval Trends and Yearbook 2008/2009."

Clinsys Clinical Research, a therapeutically focused global contract research organization, announced the launch of its Passionately Pink for the Cure campaign, a company-wide breast cancer awareness and fundraising program supporting Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

The Netherlands has become the latest European country to establish a network that is designed to promote pediatric drug development.

A new online MSc in Clinical Research Administration, developed to combat a skills shortage in the clinical research sector, has attracted 73 students from 27 countries.

CRF Inc. (CRF), a global provider of electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO) and wireless data collection solutions for the Life Science industry, announces the expansion of its Clinical Advisory Board.

Covance Inc. has announced that it will no longer pursue a 50-50 joint venture with WuXi Pharmatech to provide preclinical contract research services in China.

Its second fund raiser, which raised $ 8.7 million, allows Kayentis to accelerate the deployment of its team and solutions on the US market.

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The EMEA has made its first recommendation for the use of a centrally-authorized medicine in children on the basis of clinical trial data generated in accordance with an agreed paediatric investigation plan (PIP).

Applied Clinical Trials' EDC News brings you the latest headlines, features, and resources for everything EDC, from new software to company innovations to IT-related regulations.

Growth Partnership Company Frost & Sullivan has named Oracle as the 2008 North American Market Leadership Award recipient for Clinical Trial Management Systems, recognizing Oracle's Siebel Clinical Trial Management System.

Good Products, a provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, and Adlib Software, a producer of server-based document conversion, recognition and publishing software, announced an OEM partnership.

TIBCO Software Inc., together with INTEGROMICS, a provider of software solutions for data management and data analysis in genomics, proteomics and drug discovery, announced a solution for genomics research that provides researchers and scientists with a direct, interactive, visual approach to data analysis that rapidly reveals insights and unexpected relationships in genomics data.

Hewlett-Packard selects Kayentis, a global provider of Digital Pen and Paper technology, as Worldwide Solutions business partner for the health care and life science industries.

ISI, a provider of software and services for the life sciences industry, announced a new module to its integrated regulatory solution suite at the 2008 RAPS Annual Conference & Exhibition in Boston.

PAREXEL International Corporation (NASDAQ:PRXL), a global biopharmaceutical services provider, announced that the Company has expanded its early phase drug development capabilities to provide biopharmaceutical companies with dedicated support for Proof of Concept studies.

In its first full year of operation since it was launched as a for-profit division of the American College of Radiology, ACR Image Metrix exceeded its goals by initiating projects for over 12 drug and device companies.

PharmaPros, a technical consulting and solutions provider specializing in data and workflow management for clinical trials, announced that Paradigm Spine, a provider of non-fusion and fusion spinal implant solutions, has selected the company's automated trial management solution, Dataflow Manager, for its coflex IDE clinical study, and future studies in the Paradigm Spine pipeline.

CRF Inc. (CRF), a global provider of electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO) for the Life Science Industry, will be providing delegates at the Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM) Annual Conference with 250 Windows Mobile hand-held PDAs.

CEO Chairman Jim Walker of Octagon Research Solutions, Inc., a provider of breakthrough software and services to the life sciences industry, announced that Octagon is partnering with the Clinical Data Standards Interchange Consortium (CDISC) to provide continuing education on electronic data standards to FDA reviewers.