Clinical trials are saving lives but may be killing the environment
due to their 'intensive energy use' and 'substantial
contribution to greenhouse gasses.'
PharmaNet, Pharsight, DSM Pharmaceuticals, PDL BioPharma, R5,
Chiltern, Pharmatek Laboratories and Parexel Consulting have all
had people on the move in the world of pharmaceutical outsourcing.
Quintiles has opened its first central laboratory in India and is
hunting around for further business opportunities in this growing
pharma research hub.
Most clinical trial sites are utterly unprepared in the face of a
natural disaster and are paying a heavy price if they are unlucky
enough to be affected, delegates heard at last week's Drug
Information Association (DIA) conference...
Insurance firm Darwin is targeting the booming contract research
organisation (CRO) market by launching its own insurance cover
designed specifically for companies or organisations involved in
clinical research.
Outsourcing-Pharma.com compiles the news that has featured in the
clinical contract community of late, involving Crucell, Encorium,
Datapharm and Odyssey Research.
INC Research has become the latest contract research organisation
(CRO) to dive into India, whilst Pharmaceutical Products
Development (PPD) has opened offices in Athens and Seattle.
Japan is getting serious about clinical trial reform after years of
lagging behind the rest of the developed world in the availability
of drugs in the country, which ironically is the world's number two
pharma market behind the...
Indian contract research organisation (CRO) Synchron has acquired
local start-up CRO Innovance - a first-of-its-kind buyout in this
booming area of the pharma market.
Medifacts International has sold its contract research organisation
(CRO) unit after a reorganisation sparked by the firm's filing for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February.
Three doctors from a Russian hospital hired to run clinical trials
for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have now been charged by local
prosecutors over alleged illegal practices during the study on
children.
The FDA is giving contract research organisations (CROs) the chance
to take part in a pilot designed to test the viability of
electronic case report forms (eCRF).
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) makes sensible recommendations
in its recently released 'first-in-man' clinical trials guideline
but is somewhat passing the buck, according to a statistician with
expertise in clinical...
