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GE HEALTHCARE BETTING BIG ON MEDICAL CARE MARKET
GE Healthcare, a subsidiary of General Electric, is betting big on the rapid growth of China's healthcare market... READ MORE›
WOMEN HARMED BECAUSE VAGINAL MESH REGULATION 'NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE'
Women have been exposed to unnecessary harm due to poor regulation for vaginal mesh products, medical experts have warned... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Clinical Trial
ALZHEIMER'S TREATMENT WITHIN REACH AFTER SUCCESSFUL DRUG TRIAL
Prof John Hardy, a neuroscientist at UCL who first proposed that amyloid proteins play a central role in Alzheimer's disease, welcomed the results... READ MORE›
TRUMP POISED TO NOMINATE SCOTT GOTTLIEB TO HEAD FDA
Between 2005 and 2007 Gottlieb was FDA deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs... READ MORE›
6 HOSPITALIZED ONE OF THEM BRAIN-DEAD AFTER DRUG TRIAL IN FRANCE
Deaths or serious adverse reactions during Phase 1 clinical trials are rare... READ MORE›
HOW A PHARMACEUTICAL FIRM PRICED ITS LIFE-SAVING DRUG AT $500K A YEAR
How pharmaceutical company Alexion set the price of the world's most expensive drug... READ MORE›
ONE IN COMA AFTER CLINICAL TRIAL IN FRANCE
The study was a Phase I clinical trial, in which healthy volunteers take the medication to evaluate the safety of its use, the ministry said... READ MORE›
INVESTIGATORS TO RELEASE RECORDER DATA FROM TRAIN CRASH ON THURSDAY
Poor African women are chosen because they are the high-risk group... READ MORE›
DISMAY AS ALZHEIMER'S DRUG FAILS IN CLINICAL TRIALS
The results, based on 2,000 patients with mild dementia, are a significant blow because there are currently no treatments to slow the effects of Alzheimer's... READ MORE›
PAMPLONA CAPITAL TO TAKE PAREXEL PRIVATE FOR $4.5 BILLION
Pamplona will pay 88.10 per share in cash for Parexel, representing a 5 percent premium to the stock's Monday close... READ MORE›
'HIGH RISK OF BIAS': DOCTOR RAISES DOUBTS OVER STUDY INTO MORNING-SICKNESS DRUG
For women with high risk of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, the society recommends vitamin B6 or Diclectin... READ MORE›
CANADIAN-MADE EBOLA VACCINE BEGINS HUMAN TRIALS IN US
Experimental vaccine has shown to be 100 percent effective in preventing spread of Ebola when tested on animals... READ MORE›
LABCORP TO EXPAND ONCOLOGY OFFERINGS WITH $1.2 BILLION CHILTERN BUY
The company said the deal would create leading oncology expertise, leveraging Covance's extensive experience in late-stage studies with Chiltern's early-stage development offerings... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS FIND ALZHEIMER'S DRUG COULD HELP ROTTEN TEETH GROW BACK
After a while, the tooth will start to rebuild itself, and the sponge will disintegrate, according to the scientists... READ MORE›
MERS, EBOLA, BIRD FLU: SCIENCE'S BIG MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
Mers ebola bird flu science's big missed opportunities... READ MORE›
OBAMA NOMINATES ROBERT CALIFF AS FDA COMMISSIONER
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama has nominated Dr. Robert Califf a leading cardiologist and researcher as the next commissioner of the U.S... READ MORE›
MITSUBISHI TANABE PHARMA TO BUY ISRAEL'S NEURODERM FOR $1.1 BILLION
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma will pay 39 for each Neuroderm share, a premium of about 17 percent to its Friday close... READ MORE›
FRANCE DRUG TRIAL: BRAIN-DEAD MAN DIES IN HOSPITAL
A man left brain-dead after an experimental drug trial in France has died, local media report... READ MORE›
'SERIOUS ACCIDENT' AT CLINICAL TRIAL IN FRANCE LEAVES ONE 'BRAIN-DEAD' AND SEVERAL HOSPITALISED
French clinical trial goes wrong and hospitalises test subjects... READ MORE›
INC RESEARCH TO BUY INVENTIV IN LATEST CONTRACT MEDICAL RESEARCH DEAL
InVentiv, which is equally owned by private equity firms Advent International and Thomas H. Lee Partners, works with larger firms, including the top 20 biopharmaceutical companies... READ MORE›
ALZHEIMER'S GROUP MAY SCRAP EARLY LOOK AT COVETED LILLY DATA
Donald Langevoort, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, said the Alzheimer's Association's wide access to embargoed materials raises lots of red flags... READ MORE›
FRENCH DRUG TRIAL LEAVES ONE BRAIN DEAD
Europe has strict regulations governing the conduct of clinical trials, with Phase I tests subject to particular scrutiny... READ MORE›
CLINICAL TRIALS FOR THREE NEW EBOLA TREATMENTS TO START IN WEST AFRICA
Clinical trials of three new Ebola treatments are due to start next month in West Africa, MA C decins Sans FrontiA?res has announced... READ MORE›
INSURERS BATTLE FAMILIES OVER $1 MILLION DRUG FOR FATAL DISEASE
Perhaps that's why Sarepta's executives have claimed in statements that the average price for Exondys 51 is 300,000 per patient per year... READ MORE›
MINORITIES FACE UPHILL BATTLE IN GETTING INTO CANCER TRIALS
At Queens Hospital's Cancer Center in New York, researchers are trying to reach disadvantaged patients by bringing clinical trials to them... READ MORE›
EBOLA-HIT U.S. MAN'S CONDITION DETERIORATES
An American health care worker who contracted Ebola while volunteering in a Sierra Leone treatment unit has been downgraded to critical condition at the Na... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA ON TARGET TO ELIMINATE HEPATITIS C BY 2026
Mr Kostoglou was cured of hepatitis C last year, after being treated in a clinical trial of the direct-acting anti-viral medicine, Zepatier... READ MORE›
SENATOR MARKEY PLACES HOLD ON OBAMA'S NOMINEE TO LEAD FDA
A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the FDA, said it had made addressing the opioid crisis a top priority... READ MORE›
FRENCH DRUG TRIAL DISASTER LEAVES ONE BRAIN DEAD, FIVE INJURED[1]
French Health Minister Marisol Touraine and Gilles Hedan, professor of clinical neurology, attend a news conference in Rennes, France, Jan 15, 2016... READ MORE›
MAN DIES AFTER TAKING PART IN BOTCHED FRENCH CLINICAL TRIAL
French health authorities have said three of the hospitalized volunteers face possible brain damage... READ MORE›
HIGH HOPES NEW DRUG COULD BE A 'GAME CHANGER' AGAINST LONG-INCURABLE ALZHEIMER'S
One, called bapineuzumab, also looked promising in the early clinical trials but flopped when it reached Phase 3 trials, which test the drug on larger populations... READ MORE›
1 MAN BRAIN DEAD, 5 OTHERS HOSPITALIZED IN FRENCH DRUG TRIAL
The trial involved 90 healthy volunteers who were given the experimental drug in varying doses at different times, she told reporters at a news conference in Rennes... READ MORE›