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Clinical research (CR) directors and staff have experienced stagnant salaries, job cutbacks, and benefit cuts as a result of the recession in 2009, according to experts and results from the 2009 Clinical Trials Administrator salary survey.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed to amend postmarket safety reporting regulations to require that manufacturers and other facilities subject to current reporting requirements submit reports in an electronic format, according to an FDA news bulletin.
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Clinical care nurses often have a vague idea about research projects at their medical institutions, and their knowledge about how clinical trials work can be limited.
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Clinical trial sites sometimes fail to look at the big picture when initiating a quality improvement process by not addressing billing compliance as thoroughly as needed.
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When clinical trial industry experts look back at the 2008-2010 period, perhaps they'll see a few bright spots in an otherwise uncomfortable year.
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Physicians in the developed parts of the world have an unrealistic expectation that when they order a patient's specimen to be sent to the microbiology laboratory for culture that the results they receive in the laboratory's report are always reliable and can be used to initiate or modify the patient's therapeutic regimen.
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A new report and review of the literature comes from Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston of a 77-year-old Native American with follicular thyroid cancer post-radiation that spread to his hip, resulting in metastatic disease. He developed septic shock and necrotizing fasciitis of both thighs.
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