Why Patients Participate in Clinical Trials? Insights From The President of Medex Healthcare Research Inc.

I wanted to share the insights of Dr. James Greenwald, President of Medex Healthcare Research Inc., a company that sees over 15,000 new patients every year. Medex performs second opinions and secondary medical exams for the government, for corporations and hospitals, which allows them to encounter such vast amounts of patients. Out of this large [...]

Today is the World AIDS Day. Support the fight…

We’ve come a long way in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Once a deadly terminal disease, AIDS is now categorized as a chronic disease. Thanks to the development of new treatments such as the anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) that have helped bring down the death rates dramatically. However, the fight is still far from over – In [...]

Clinical Trials API, Real-time Analytics and AJAX Widget

Web is becoming real-time. Websites are opening up firehoses of real-time data streams that are gobbled up by widgets and Waves. Some call it the Web 3.0. At TrialX, we’ve been working towards creating a similar momentum in the clinical research space – the Clinical Trials 3.0 – the goal is to capture and share [...]

Building a Social and Community-driven Knowledgebase of Clinical Trials

We recently made a big enhancement at TrialX and we couldn’t be more excited. We have been working feverishly to make improvements to our site making it easier for patients to find trials matching their personal health profile and enabling them to contact the investigators in a seamless and secure manner. Now, we are extending [...]

Why you should control and manage your own health records…

I came across this recent blog post by Peter Neupert, Corporate VP for the Health Solutions Group at MSFT, and something very obvious yet interesting caught my attention – “Individuals should be encouraged to create and manage their health data asset and to learn how to share it to achieve better outcomes and interactions with [...]