Regulation of clinical trials in emerging markets is now too strict and is prompting sponsors and CROs to adopt “one-size-fits-all” designs, according to a new study.
inVentiv Health will stump up $50m for contract staffing firm Kforce Clinical Research (KCR) to ramp up its funcatiuonal service provider (FSP) business.
Frontage Laboratories says it is focussing on improving regulatory and GMP compliance in China after signing a $10m (€7.5m) collaboration with drugs maker Fanghui Pharma.
Russia’s trial sector has largely recovered from the ‘crisis’ created by revision of approval system in 2010, but regulators are still taking too long to OK studies says industry group ACTO.
Study payment tech firm Greenphire says partnership with Merge Healthcare’s trial arm will offer greater efficiencies for pharmaceutical industry sponsors.
The requirement for local clinical trials has been a ‘serious blow’ to Russia’s drug approval system and an opportunity for unethical CROs according to the Moscow-based Association of Clinical Trial Organisations (ACTO).
The Russian Ministry of Health (MoH) has cleared nearly 600 trial sites for clinical research, easing concerns that the reaccreditation process was taking too long.
Firecrest Clinical has launched a mobile version of its site management and training platform, citing investigator demand for trial in your hand solutions and sponsor demand for increased research efficiency.
Parexel subsidiary and eClinical service provider, Perceptive Informatics, has announced the results of a global survey into site monitoring and management activities during clinical trials.
US CRO the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) has teamed up with Kaplan EduNeering to develop a training programme to meet rising global demand for qualified clinical researchers.
Contract Research Organisation (CRO) Quintiles has opened a Phase I facility in Hyderabad, India, citing increasing demand for efficiency in early-phase drug research in the country.
Finland, Brazil and Mexico recruit more patients per site than any other country where clinical trials are frequently conducted, according to EMA data.
The Association of Clinical Research Organisations (ACRO) has welcomed new trial inspection guidance released by India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation.
Spaulding Clinical has renovated its Phase I pharmacology unit, citing both sponsor and regulatory demand for centralized cardiac monitoring as drivers.
The Singaporean government has launched two new certification courses for clinical researchers in a bid to “deepen the pool of skilled manpower” available to the country’s rapidly expanding contract research sector.
A US group representing hospitals in New York wants to accelerate clinical research process by improving trial access to electronic patient records, while maintaining patient privacy.
Outsourcing-Pharma presents its latest round up of movements in the pharma outsourcing space, including appointments at PRA, Integrium, Ecron Acunova, Parexel, Catalent and Brecon.
Cardiac monitoring and ePRO specialist ERT has added respiratory diagnostics and device manufacturing services to its offering with the acquisition of CareFusion Research Services (CRS) for $81m (€61m).
Aris Global has introduced Total Clinical 2.0, a software package which integrates EDC, safety and adverse event systems to streamline operations and cut costs.
Integrated solutions are the future of trial data management according to Phase Forward as growth of the electronic data capture (EDC) market begins to slow.
Medidata says the latest addition to its EDC platform, the Rave Safety Gateway, will cut the time it takes to report adverse events during trials and help CROs and their sponsors comply with increasingly stringent reporting rules.
Synexus has recruited more than 2,000 children in three months for a Phase III rotavirus vaccine study, which it believes validates its methods and demonstrates they are particularly effective in late stage vaccine trials.
Improved access to data and the ability for users to share comments are among the features added to latest version of Veracity, an electronic data capture (EDC) system from Kika Clinical Solutions.
