During this global pandemic thousands of people in the United States are helping scientists better understand the novel coronavirus. Those infected with the virus as well as healthy volunteers are participating in research that is powering the science that will lead to new treatments and...
Patient recruitment has always been an Achilles heel in the success of clinical trials. As Stuart Horowitz, President of Institutions and Institutional Services, WIRB-Copernicus Group cites “The greatest challenge for multicenter clinical trials is the timely recruitment of the required number of participants who complete...
According to National Institute of Health (NIH) a healthy volunteer is “someone with no known significant health problems who participates in research to test a new drug, device, or intervention”. They can also be called “Clinical Research Volunteers”. Every year about 3500 healthy volunteers participate in clinical...
2016 was an exciting year for clinical research and drug development. With the backing of big research initiatives like the federally funded Cancer Moonshot, clinical research kicked off on the path of groundbreaking developments. mHealth continued to dominate health technology trend last year, with ResearchKit...
Lack of volunteers is the reason behind 30% of clinical trials that never kickstart, and 20% of the trials that start, get aborted abruptly due to poor accrual. TrialX iConnect is a portal that helps investigators expand the reach of their clinical trials to patients and...