Advances in medical technology have opened the door for dermatology mobile health (mHealth) programs, and these same technologies have the potential to radically change dermatology trial designs. Here are four ways digital disruption in the dermatology field is benefiting both patients and providers: 1. Reduced wait times: Digital health assessments make time spent scheduling, traveling,...
In this blog series, we’ve been discussing some of the challenges of conducting clinical trials in neuroscience. In our final post of the series, we turn to another major one: ensuring that assessments are conducted with high quality whilst also minimizing subjectivity. Rating subjectivity can make signal detection substantially more difficult, if not impossible. This...
To achieve operational excellence in gene therapy trials, sponsors must understand – and overcome – obstacles ranging from start-up regulations and site selection to patient recruitment and retention. Gene therapy holds promise for treating a wide range of diseases, from cancer and diabetes to rare genetic disorders. It has also sparked great interest because it...
Between navigating relatively uncharted territory and the practical limitations of most gene therapy delivery systems, ensuring successful clinical trials of these products is a serious challenge for even the most experienced researchers. Compounding this is the long-term nature of most gene therapy trials — it’s not unusual to have follow-up periods of a decade or more....
Regulatory Submission Filed a Full Year Ahead of Schedule This case is a story with no drama. No sudden crisis. No last-minute rescues. It’s about a clinical trial that ran perfectly from start to finish. And that in itself is a story worth telling. The sponsor needed to test a new nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)....
The invisible wounds caused by post-traumatic stress disorder can dramatically affect mental health and diminish quality of life. According to the Sidran Institute, a nonprofit organization serving people who have experienced or witnessed traumatic events, PTSD is associated with an extremely high rate of medical and mental health service use. Patients may incur the highest per-capita cost...
Clinical trials can be dauntingly complex. The high-stakes culmination of years – sometimes decades – of research, they involve rigorous data requirements, close regulatory scrutiny, intricate logistics, and intense cost pressures. Add the stress of trial outcomes sometimes being a make or break proposition for the sponsor, and it makes sense to hire a professional...
Concern over cybersecurity touches our lives in new ways almost daily. Today, there is growing concern over millions of people who use connected medical devices that use off-the-shelf software. Here are six things the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health wants you to know about the safety of networked medical devices: 1. Hacking of...
A true strategic partnership has benefits for both the sponsor and the contract research organization (CRO). The partnership is grounded in working together towards a common goal, and for both the sponsor and the CRO the success of one is the success of the other—with processes and talent evolving on both sides to produce enhanced...
An effective team is critical to the success of any clinical study. And when your product is destined for a market valued at $4-16 billion—such as the AVR (transcatheter aortic valve replacement) and TMVR (transcatheter mitral valve replacement) markets—you want to ensure a particularly strong foundation for your study. You build that foundation with your...