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6 Tips for Strategic CRO-Sponsor Partnerships (And Why They’re Important)

Strategic partnerships between sponsors and CROs are an important part of today’s clinical research landscape. When managed effectively, these relationships provide customers with collaborative strategic resources that drive optimized solutions. Partnerships help ensure the continuity of project teams and operations, development of best practices for continuous learning, and streamlined resource planning and staffing. They can also provide...

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The Placebo Problem, Part 5: The Placebome

This is the fifth installment of our look at placebo response issues in analgesia and psychiatry clinical trials. Read other posts in the series here. Studies examining genetic variants associated with high or low placebo responses – the “placebome” – are relatively recent, but represent an important line of research that can yield insights into...

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7 New and Emerging Acne Treatments

Acne is a common, complex skin disorder most people experience at some point in their lives. While many treatments are currently available, options for severe acne are limited. Additionally, clinicians are aiming to reduce long-term broad-spectrum antibiotic use, which is becoming less effective as antibiotic resistance becomes more common. Possible solutions? More effective topical treatments and targeted therapies. Here...

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The Placebo Problem, Part 4: Neurobiological Mechanisms

This is the fourth in our series examining the increasingly high placebo response issues plaguing analgesia and psychiatry clinical trials. Additional posts in the series are located here. As with many other aspects of placebo research, the majority of research on underlying neurobiological mechanisms has focused on placebo analgesia. In fact, roughly 40 positron emission...

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Investigational New Drug Applications: 5 Solutions to Common Problems

There are many pitfalls that come with preparing an Investigational New Drug application for FDA submission. Luckily, there are also plenty of ways to avoid them. But the most important strategy? It all comes down to one thing: Always remember to keep your audience (the FDA reviewers) in mind as you write. These five actionable...

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The Placebo Problem, Part 3: Psychological Underpinnings

This is the third installment of our look at the increasingly high placebo response that is plaguing clinical trials in analgesia and psychiatry. Additional posts in the series can be accessed here. Solutions to the placebo problem require an understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Broadly, research on contributors to the placebo response falls into two...

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Choices, Choices: Which Type of Natural History Study Meets Your Needs?

When you’re looking into conducting a natural history study, you’ve got two things to consider up front: the premise that underlies all of these studies, and which of several types suits your purpose. We tackled these and other topics in our last rare disease webinar. Natural History vs. Registry Studies in Rare Disease considers a...

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Clinical Research: Phase 1 - Phase 4

The Placebo Problem, Part 2: Rising Response

This is Part Two of our series on the increasingly high placebo response that is plaguing clinical trials in analgesia and psychiatry. Read the other parts here. Analgesic and psychiatric drug development is facing an enormous problem: rising placebo responses in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) threaten the ability of pharmaceutical companies to successfully identify novel...

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How Adaptive Design Clinical Trials Uphold These 3 Core Ethical Principles

In 1978 the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research issued the Belmont Report, which has since become a pivotal document in medical research ethics. This report pointed to three unifying ethical principles that must be followed in clinical research: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice, which are considered fundamental for...

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Clinical Research: Phase 1 - Phase 4

The Placebo Problem, Part 1: Overview

For hundreds of years, the medical community has known that the mere act of receiving treatment, even if it’s just a sugar pill, can improve a patient’s symptoms. Therefore, in order to ensure that the effects of an experimental treatment are real, most randomized controlled trials (RCTs) include a placebo arm. Placebos are most often...

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