Clinical Trials Go Offshore
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Often outsourced to developing countries with low-paid workers and few regulations, clinical trials are cheaper to conduct -- but there's a downside. In Bodyhack.
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Revisions to the EU Clinical Trials Directive legislation in Portugal will standardize the way clinical trials are performed in the country and improve timelines to competitive levels.
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Medarex's partner advances one of its compounds into later stage clinical testing.
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Scientists are preparing for a large clinical trial in 2008 which aims to use stem cells to help 400 patients with spinal cord injuries in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan grow new cells and nerve fibers.
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The biotech firm advances to next stage of clinical studies in stem cell research.
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The editors of 11 top medical journals shook up the staid world of academic publishing this past week when they decided to stop printing results of drug trials that aren't registered in a central database. Globe biotechnology reporter Jeffrey Krasner spoke with Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen , editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, about how the policy should ...
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Americans with prostate cancer are traveling abroad for a treatment that is not approved in the United States.
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It can be incredibly difficult for patients to ferret out studies of experimental drugs that offer hope to threat their disease. There is no comprehensive database of ongoing clinical trials, but specialists offer advice for the search:
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Biopharma firm ends trials for a promising drug and offloads four commercial products.
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Experts push for cervical cancer vaccines to be made available to the developing world.
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It's running trials to see if the drug can be used in earlier stages of cancer.
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A little-known Food and Drug program is testing the latest medical technology to determine how safe and useful it can be.    One cutting-edge experiment is designed to see if injecting certain drugs directly into diseased arteries works better than commonly used stents in keeping arteries clear...
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Mixing cells and eggs to be allowed in search for new medical treatments.
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Cancer drug shows exceptional promise as it moves toward FDA review.
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Two drugs provide good results in preliminary trials.
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A heart-drug trial that was "outsourced" to India and China -- an approach many industries are taking to save money -- demonstrates the potential for doing life-saving medical research on a budget, scientists said on Monday.
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The global pharmaceutical industry  unveiled plans on Thursday to publish more data about trials of  medicines in a bid to reassure patients following recent alarms  over drug safety.