Bioscience Rushing to Develop Virus Vaccines and Treatments
Big pharma and small bioscience are taking on the coronavirus, some becoming collaborators, some going…
Staffing Firms Can Fill 100% of the Nation’s Essential Jobs
An audit of the nation’s staffing agencies found them ready and able to provide workers…
Llamas Could Help Prevent COVID Infections
Could a cure for COVID-19 come from llamas?. Researchers are guarded in their optimism, but…
COVID-19 Is Prompting Innovation In Research Trials
As scientists race to develop a vaccine and cure for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19,…
Spinach May One Day Produce New Drugs
Almost a century ago the comic strip hero Popeye popularized spinach, attributing his amazing strength…
COVID-19 Puts Spotlight On Adaptive Clinical Trials
One of the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to be the accelerated…
Virtual Clinical Trials Could Become the New Normal
Since Pfizer launched the first randomized clinical trial to be conducted entirely remotely in 2011, virtual clinical…
Pharma Rebrands More Often and Gets Better Results
When Actavis acquired Forest Labs in 2014 it chose to rebrand the products under its own, better…
Statins Show Promise in Reducing Death from Ovarian Cancer
Women with ovarian cancer who take statins to lower their cholesterol have a 40% lower…
Pandemic Gives Drug Onshoring New Momentum
The shortage of masks, respirators and other medical supplies that accompanied the rise of COVID-19…
Wide Scale Testing Beginning for COVID-19 Vaccines
Researchers are making so much progress in developing a vaccine against COVID-19 that the first…
Drug Industry Invests $1 Billion For Antibiotic Development
Before the discovery of antibiotics, tuberculosis was the second most common cause of death in…
Is It the Drug Or Fitbit Making the Difference?
As if clinical researchers and managers didn’t already have enough to worry about, now add…
Roche Predicted to Top the List of Big Pharma In 2026
Making predictions is always dicey – especially so in this unprecedented global environment. Yet that…
COVID Trials Raising Awareness of Clinical Diversity
Minority representation in clinical trials is an issue the coronavirus vaccine trials has brought out…
Technology Is Transforming the Clinical Research Workforce
The clinical research workforce is facing a transformation brought about by the rapid changes in…
Rare Diseases Trial Network Moves Closer to Reality
As many as 30 million Americans may be living with a “rare disease,” officially defined as a…
Seattle’s Biotech Is Desperate For Workers
One of the nation’s premier biotech centers is finding it so hard to fill jobs…
How COVID Is Changing Clinical Trials
Amidst all the uncertainty about a COVID vaccine, at least this one thing is certain:…
Neanderthal Genes Make COVID Worse for Some
An impaired immune system, age, obesity and underlying medical issues are the well-known risk factors…