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Clinical Trial Patient Recruitment

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Clinical trial sponsors are largely unaware of the conflict that arises when dealing with the new, increasingly Internet savvy e-patient who is highly motivated, well educated, self-advocating, and self-informing, says Bonnie Brescia, of BBK Worldwide. “But the Internet is undermining that whole model

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Patient Recruitment for Clinical Trials Now on Twitter

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

New York-based Applied Informatics has developed a “do-it-yourself” platform patient recruitment tool that moves the search for clinical trials onto social media sites like Twitter. It also allows would-be subjects with a personal health record (PHR) in Microsoft HealthVault or Google Health to import the information in lieu of filling out an online pre-screening form to be matched for trials.

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Medical Imaging Emerges in Clinical Trials

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Medical imaging in clinical trials has gained momentum since the FDA began allowing imaging as part of the evidence in support of a new drug application. The FDA, in an effort to increase new drug approvals, has identified imaging as an important technology for assessing new therapeutics and accelerating drug development in the future. There [...]

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Social Networking Sites Have Myriad Trial-Related Uses

Posted by H. Sandra Chevalier-Batik

The information in this post was gathered from an article published by Deb Bortifz in eCliniqua, Innovative Management in Clinical Trials. eCliniqua offers PodCasts, WebCasts, White Papers and much more. Their ‘data-rich’ site is one of my primary research resources for an objective review of clinical trial process and results. March 2, 2009 | A [...]

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