Recently, the NIH Clinical Center Directors Annual Report was released by the National Institutes of Health.  The NIH Clinical Center is the “world’s largest hospital completely dedicated to clinical research”.  In addition to detailing this year’s achievements, this year marks…

In the current issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), there is an article entitled, “Non-publication of large randomized clinical trials: cross sectional analysis” (BMJ2013;347:f6104). The authors examined clinical trials on clinicaltrials.gov to determine if data from these trials is available to the…

Institutions that collect PHI information for research have less than 2 months to make sure that their systems and procedures are in compliance with the Final Rule issued on January 25, 2013.  The deadline established for full compliance is September…

From PharmaTimes Online (link):  A UK-based pharma scientist has been sentenced to three months in prison for altering pre-clinical trial data designed to support applications to perform human trials. Steven Eaton was found guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff’s Court in March…