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21st Century Cares Act gets passed by Congress
The 21st Century Cares Act was passed with an overwhelming majority on July 10th, 2015. This bill would increase the funding for both the NIH and FDA and instate a new framework for evaluating patience’s experience with drugs risks and benefits. Not only will the bill...
Will NIH be the next to use smartphones for gathering data?
NIH may be the next to join Apple and Google in using technology (i.e. smartphones) to help gather information for clinical trials. This new step for the NIH came under the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). President Obama hopes the PMI will “bring us...
Does the US need to invest more in biomedical research?
According to a recent article by Senator Amy Klobuchar, the United States has always been the world leader when it comes to biomedical research and innovation. However, many other countries are starting to rapidly catch up, and the United States may need to put more...
FDA: Using EHR-EDC for clinical trials?
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been looking into ways to test Electric Health Record (EHR)-to-Electric Data Capture (EDC) approach for clinical trials. The administration believes that this could open up new opportunities for clinical trials through...
Pearl Pathways hires Patti Hunker
Pearl Pathways is excited to add Patti Hunker to their team as the senior leader in clinical research and management of foundation as Clinical Research Advisor. Hunker has over 10 years of clinical research experience in both drug and device trials. Previously, she...