Author: Peter Mansell

TheCouncil of the European Union must preserve the competitive timelinesfor assessment set out in the European Commission’s proposedregulation on clinical trials if it wants to keep Europe at thecutting edge of biopharmaceutical innovation, a coalition ofpharmaceutical and biotechnology industry associations, researchersand patient groups insists.

Clinical-trialsponsors can use big data both to inform decisions on trial placementand to target related advertising geographically, optimisingpotential for patient recruitment, a new report has found.

US-based contract research organisation (CRO) WCCT Global has launched an internationalpatient-recruitment offering to address parallel initiation ofclinical-trial sites in the US and other markets.

Harlan Laboratories, the US-based provider of contract-research services and research models, has expanded its disease-preconditioned animal model and imaging services at the company’s speciality research centre in Israel.

Knowing that a health-research study had been reviewed by a Research Ethics Committee (REC) involving members of the public, or that patients had a role in ensuring the study information was easily digestible, would boost public confidence in the research endeavour, a UK survey has found.