Some new integrated features will include voice response and Web-based patient recruitment services, electronic data capture and clinical data management software along with a full reporting system. Voice response can make the reporting system easier for patients to respond and I am guessing the...
Part of the success of Amgen was using a smaller amount of individuals for clinical trials, and looking at results during the trial instead of an overall evaluation process at the conclusion. It also helps keep the cost of the clinical trials down by conducting studies for biomarkers, or signature...
Anyone who has been to the doctor is well aware of the cost factors, yet it is what continues to drive what treatments a physician may prescribe and what the patient receives. This story contains a case study related to prostate cancer, whereby 2 treatment plans were compared side by side, and...
Medical devices are also converging on the world of pharma…G.E. Phillips, Siemens, and there are more with the diagnostic business. Then we have the medical devices themselves, screws, nuts and bolts…many with wireless and other technology built in, pacemakers that report back to a mobile phone...