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Biotrial, a CRO for early phase clinical trials, today announced that Monique Duguépéroux-Klocke has joined the company as its new Head of Data Management.

Ex-Lilly executives open Centurion, a commercial clinic in Indianapolis that will host Phase I trials.

ICON Medical Imaging has launched a new cardiac echocardiography analysis software which attempts to address important unmet needs in clinical trials using echocardiography.

Patheon, a global provider of drug development and manufacturing services to the international pharmaceutical industry has announced the opening of its new U.S. headquarters and analytical lab facilities in the vicinity of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Cardiocore and Roche collaborate in order to contribute data to the URMC/FDA Holter ECG warehouse.

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PAREXEL International Corporation, a global biopharmaceutical services provider, announced today that it has established an alliance with Safe Implementation of Treatments in Stroke (SITS) International, a worldwide network of clinical sites with specialized capabilities in the area of stroke.

Drug Safety Alliance (DSA) offered details at the recent Seventh Annual International Users Conference in San Francisco, CA on how a well-designed signal management program and select tools can help pharmaceutical companies with early detection of new safety information.

The Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) has entered into an alliance with the Shanghai Clinical Research Center (SCRC), an organization in China.

Clinical Trials & Surveys Corp. (C-TASC), a clinical trials solutions company, announced today that it has been selected to provide data management software and services to New York University School of Medicine (NYU), one of eight sites collecting data for a study being conducted by the Early Detection Research Network.

IndiPharm has appointed a new director of operations to provide comprehensive clinical research project control in India.

Phase Forward, a provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, today announced that it has been selected as a Technology Pioneer 2009 by the World Economic Forum.

Velos, Inc., a resource for clinical trials management information systems, today announced that it has signed an agreement with the University of Kansas Medical Center (KU Medical Center).

Exco InTouch, a mobile messaging provider for the pharmaceutical industry, announces that its text messaging technology ATLAS has been selected by Pfizer, to enhance the efficacy of its patient recruitment and retention in Phase I clinical trials.

Due to the tragic events that have taken place in Mumbai, DIA has postponed its 3rd Annual Conference on Drug Discovery and Clinical Development in India (December 7-10, 2008).

After spending nearly 30 years specializing in Phase II-IV rheumatology studies, Metroplex Clinical Research Center (MCRC) is broadening its services by adding a Phase I unit in their research facility.

Quintiles Transnational Corp. today announced that it has acquired Targeted Molecular Diagnostics (TMD).

The FDA is requiring that J&J and co-development partner Basilea Pharmaceutica resolve data integrity issues related to its antibiotic drug ceftobiprole

Sermes a contract research organization (CRO) based in Madrid, Spain, has deployed Oracle Clinical applications to support a new business unit focused on clinical trial data management, as well as plans for continued expansion in the global clinical trial market.

INTERLAB (Munich, Germany), the German central laboratory with global operations, increases its European project and data management team by 30% to absorb additional business generated recently.

DATATRAK, a technology and services company focused on global eClinical solutions for the clinical trials industry, today reported that its alliance partner in Japan, NTT DATA Corporation, has placed its first self-designed project using the DATATRAK eClinical platform into production for a Japanese clinical trial.

PAREXEL, a global biopharmaceutical services provider, today announced that it has opened an office in Lima, Peru to provide regulatory consulting and clinical research capabilities.

In a sharp break with Washington tradition, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif) unseated long-time top Democrat on the House Energy & Commerce Committee, John Dingell (D-Mich), to become the panel's new chairman.

President-elect Barak Obama selects former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle as secretary of Health and Human Services.

ProTrials Research, Inc. today announced that it has been awarded top honors in the 5th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business.

QED Clinical Services, a contract research organization, is using the IT Farm's Web-based IT for its offices as far afield as Russia, India and China.