Hesperion has opened a Russian arm of its contract research
business in a bid to 'increase its attractiveness' to clinical
trial sponsors requiring large patient populations.
Parexel has announced encouraging financial results for its second
fiscal quarter, despite 'disappointing' performance in its medical
communications business.
PRA International has entered into an alliance with US Oncology
Research, designed to accelerate the clinical development of new
cancer treatments in the US.
Charles River Laboratories confirmed it is persevering in its
intention to focus on its preclinical and Phase I businesses while
abandoning its late stage development services, during a conference
earlier this month.
The move towards electronic files is set to bring major benefits in
the clinical trials area especially in terms of patient
recruitment, new research suggests.
There are currently three key market trends that play to Parexel's
strengths and one of them is the globalisation of clinical trials,
the company's CEO claimed during a healthcare conference earlier
this month.
Kendle has opened two new offices in the past two weeks, one in the
US and one in Sweden, in a sign that the contract research market
continues to abound.
Covance was nothing but optimistic about the future of contract
research organisations (CROs) during a JPMorgan healthcare
conference held last week, despite a slowdown in R&D spending
over the past year.
Two companies have gone a step further to capture a bigger chunk of
the budding eClinical market by offering a new integrated solution
for pharma companies who continue to move away from paper toward
electronic reporting in clinical...
Quintiles has teamed up with practices group Onmark to create a
national clinical trial network comprised of Onmark members - a
move that could help the CRO cope with increasing patient
recruitment issues in the US.
China is now an industry buzzword when it comes to outsourcing and
yet another report adds to the list of research recently published
that give evidence of the increasing popularity of the country as a
location to conduct drug clinical...
A new clinical research tool is now available, offering
investigators the ability to integrate clinical data from a number
of different sources across the clinical development spectrum.
