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Excel is outdated, EDC is the present and future of clinical data management
Before the 90s, clinical data management using paper and Excel was still a to-go way. Nowadays, even though leading enterprises are planning to use EDC for 100% of their trials,...
Asia to become the ideal destination for clinical trials
According to a report by Frost and Sullivan, global clinical trials are expected to develop at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.4%. Its revenue is forecast to reach...
The history of EDC
Electronic data capture (EDC) is a system that helps collect and manage clinical data widely used by leading corporations in large-scale and complicated studies. The benefits that EDC offer are...
Can clinical trials succeed easily?
Creating a new kind of drug normally costs billions of dollars ($2.6 billion on average) together with material and human resources of pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies. However, the number of...
First cancer gene therapy CAR-T in the U.S: The spark for a bright future
On July 2017, Novartis scored probably the most impressive goal of the year when their leukemia treatment got approval from the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The therapy, called...
10 prominent clinical trial successes from 2015 to 2017
Up until the end of 2016, the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a total of 1,561 drugs including a number approved before its official transformation into a...
Will Registered Reports be clinical trial’s new hero?
It is estimated that 33 to 60% of clinical trials never report results. And throughout the course of trial history, there has been numerous strikingly scandalous cases in which data...
The new plague in Southeast Asia
Once upon a time, infectious disease was a ‘specialty’ of Asian countries in the Southeast. Nowadays, the region is plagued by ‘the modern epidemic’ of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – those...
Informed consent in clinical trials: ethical challenges
You might have heard this a thousand times, but here is a restatement because it’s true: patient recruitment is the most painful process in the clinical trial. Of course, the...
Data-driven: the way to go for clinical trials
From its infancy until now, clinical trials have made major progress in terms of technology. eClinical emerged and quickly became a budding business. Yet software and services continued to develop to further...