ACRES Launches Outreach and Education Blog

The Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES) and Texas-based for-profit San Antonio Express-News, an affiliate of Hearst Communications, have formed a strategic alliance to create a blog as a vehicle for public outreach and education across the healthcare and clinical research endeavor.  The blog is directed toward patients and the public. The ACRES' Accountable Research Blog is being piloted in the San Antonio, Texas market, and is projected to be extended to other Hearst media markets, both domestically and internationally. In addition, the alliance partners will work together to develop and use the blog to conduct surveys on important research issues, to gather public feedback and provide educational blog opportunities to stakeholders in healthcare and biomedical research.