Applied Clinical Trials-01-01-2011

SITES : Reducing the Challenges of Study Coordination Workload Measurement Instrument for Cancer Trials RECRUITMENT : African Americans in Clinical Trials Also in this issue : 2011, A Challenge for the Biomedical Research Community?, Joint Manifesto Tries to Address Vicious Cycle, Discontent with IRBs, R&D Success Rate Continues to Fall

Updates on obesity drug development.

Throughout the entire clinical development, who has the most interaction with prospective and active subjects? Who is primarily responsible for the quality of the source data that ultimately decides the approvability of all biopharmaceutical products?

GCP training will be the main point of discussion at the EFGCP meeting in February.

Recession and acquisitions make recruiting America's second-largest minority even harder.

An alliance between two European leaders gives hope for unison but falls short on solutions.

It is necessary to understand the time, staff, and financial resources required to conduct clinical trials.

Doing more harm than good will ultimately force human subject protection system reform.

Reducing the challenges of study coordination in multi-site clinical trials.

Industry news focusing on the people and organizations who work in the clinical trials profession.

Until the late 80's, Phase III trials were conducted essentially in North America and/or Europe.

New user fees, health initiatives, and FDA compliance concerns are top issues for 2011.

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