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March 10, 2025: Developing Monitoring Plans Warrants Special Attention in Pragmatic Clinical Trials

Rethinking Clinical Trials

In an article published online ahead of print , leaders from the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory share lessons learned about the importance of independent oversight by a safety office or data and safety monitoring board in pragmatic clinical trials, even for trials deemed to have minimal risk.

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March 4, 2025: PRIM-ER Team Develops Innovative Statistical Techniques for Stepped-Wedge Trials

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Researchers with PRIM-ER, an NIH Collaboratory Trial, published 2 innovative statistical techniques for evaluating intervention effects in stepped-wedge, cluster randomized trials. In stepped-wedge trials, the clusters are randomized into several groups, and all groups start the trial in the control condition.

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January 9, 2025: NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Will Hold Virtual Workshop on Emerging Issues in February

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory will hold a virtual workshop on February 5 and 6, 2025, on Digging Into Dilemmas of Pragmatic Clinical Trials. To date, the NIH Collaboratory has launched 35 pragmatic trials that are conducted within healthcare systems at over 1,400 clinical sites.

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Top 5 Things to Know Before Joining a Clinical Trial

Pharma Mirror

Clinical trials are the foundation of medical innovation, paving the way for groundbreaking therapies. Yet for many, the idea of joining a trial can feel intimidating or unclear. Have you ever wondered how life-saving treatments for cancer, Alzheimers, or chronic diseases come to life?

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies.

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Biopharma & medical devices cos view advanced infrastructure to propel manufacturing & new drug development

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Critical infrastructure in biopharma and medical devices plays a vital role in enabling innovation, bolstering research and development, and ensuring the production of novel drugs and products. It ensures scalability, quality control, and regulatory compliance.

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Merck stops coronavirus vaccine development in surprise setback

Bio Pharma Dive

The drugmaker, one of the largest vaccine developers globally, won't move forward with either of two candidates it's been testing after disappointing data in early trials.

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Roles and Responsibilities of Specialized Clinical Supply Experts

When selecting a clinical supply provider, consideration often focuses upon the manufacturing, packaging, storage and distribution capabilities available that will, at face-value, be sufficient to meet the needs of the sponsor and their trial.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management.

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Accelerating Clinical Supply Through Integrated Drug Development

As the development pipeline for new drugs continues to grow, biopharmaceutical companies are re-evaluating how to best manage and balance resources across an increasing number of development projects and complex clinical trials.