Author: Peter Mansell

Phase Forward, the US company that specialises in data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, has won a contract from the US Department of Defense to support the data-sharing initiative announced last year by the DoD and the Food and Drug Administration.

Continuing the trend of contract research organisations (CROs) feeling the pinch from a tougher economic climate, Canadian life sciences company MDS has lowered its financial guidance for the third time this year, partly due to a write-down of goodwill at its troubled CRO division, MDS Pharma Services.

US-based contract research organisation (CRO) PRA International has consolidated its presence in Mexico by opening a new office in Mexico City.

Piedmont Medical Group (PMG), which runs an Integrated Site Network of clinical research facilities in the southeast region of the United States, has signed an agreement with ICON Clinical Research formalising the partners’ existing working relationship to improve patient recruitment for clinical trials.

US-based medical equipment, products and services company Thermo Fisher Scientific has now opened the US$17 million clinical services facility it started constructing in Ahmedabad, India just over a year ago.