Clinical Trials
According to the National Institutes of Health, a clinical trial is "a research study to answer specific questions about vaccines or new therapies or new ways of using known treatments...
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Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are systematic investigations on human subjects testing the safety and efficacy of novel medical interventions, including drug, surgical, or behavioral treatments. Conv...
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Japan is the second largest country in the world in consumption of pharmaceuticals, yet its clinical development activities are not very advanced compared to the United States and other developed c...
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One result of the new European clinical trials directive
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has been more outsourcing of the manufacturing of clinical trial materials. These ...
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Introduction
Websites, along with print and broadcast advertisements, are commonly used by investigators and institutions to recruit research subjects. In some cases, the informa...
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Recruiting patients for clinical trials is expensive, critical, and time-sensitive. Delays in recruitment can hinder the approval and launch of a drug, which can affect a company's revenue, profit,...
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In what has become a mini-trend among big pharma stocks, shares of GlaxoSmithKline fell nearly 8% on May 21 after a medical journal report warned that Avandia, for diabetes, carried a serious heart...
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Pharmaceutical and biotechnology Phase III programs are critical to both future revenue and growth, and to successfully bringing novel therapies to market. Their chances for success, however, can o...
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Wall Street may not get very excited — or worried — about Genentech Inc.'s prospects until it sees results from several clinical trials of its drugs.The nation's largest biotechnology c...
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By taking the Editor-in-Chief position with Applied Clinical Trials, I have the luxury of coming to a publication that needs no further introduction. In the few short weeks I've been here, I have h...
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The International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) expects to publish its tripartite guideline describing modern quality systems for consultation this spring. This will bring nearer to the end a p...
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