CRO Parexel International has acquired all of the outstanding equity securities of privately-owned and UK-based ClinIntel, a provider of clinical Randomization and Trial Supply Management (RTSM) services.
The pan-European drug regulator, the European Medicines Agency
(EMEA), has adopted a draft guideline for first-in-man clinical
studies for potential high-risk drugs in a bid to prevent a repeat
of last year's TGN1412 drug trial...
Legal action could begin today against Parexel if the firm does not
come up with "an adequate proposal" to compensate the victims of
last years drug trial disaster in Northwick Park, London.
Although clearing Parexel from contributing to the recent drug
trial disaster, a final UK Medicines and Healthcare products
Regulatory Agency (MHRA) report slammed the US firm for making a
number of basic errors during the trial process.