At FOMAT Medical Research, our mission as an Integrated Research Organization (IRO) is to diversify clinical trials innovating healthcare for underrepresented populations while ensuring that Good Clinical Practice standards and ethics are upheld. ...
What are clinical trials? Clinical trials are research studies that use human participants to help evaluate new medical treatments, drugs, or devices. They are an essential tool that helps lead to new and improved discoveries within patient care ...
It’s no secret that the recruitment process is often the most difficult part for a clinical trial. Just to give an example, let’s analyze a report from the Pharmaceutical Technology website. The report states that 15 – 20% of trials never enroll a s ...
Starting from the fact that minorities account for fewer than 10 percent of patients enrolled in clinical trials. Health disparities and underrepresentation in clinical trials could become a serious issue in the upcoming years. FDA Regulations I ...
President Obama signed a bill that will provide US$6 billion in federal funding for basic medical research on Dec. 13. Called the 21st Century Cures Act, it also introduces changes to how the Food and Drug Administration approves drugs and medical d ...
Although effective for the treatment of diabetes, exercise is sometimes difficult for overweight or elderly people. A new wearable medical device developed by Kumamoto University has been found to effect visceral fat loss and improve blood glucose ( ...
The estimated number of visually impaired people in the world is 285 million, with 39 million blind people. About 65 percent of visually impaired people and 82 percent of all blind people are 50 years or older. Four major blinding diseases are age-r ...
On Monday scientists began a Phase 1 human clinical trial to test safety and immunogenicity, or the ability to provoke an immune response, of the Zika purified inactivated virus (ZPIV) vaccine. The study, supported by the National Institutes of Hea ...
The pharmaceutical market in Colombia is set to rise from $5 billion in 2015 to $7.1 billion by 2020, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.3%, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData. The company’s latest report states ...
The long-awaited trial comes after much preclinical cell work on more than 350 rats, 50 immunodeficient mice and 32 non-human primates. “After 20 years in the stem cell area and a daily practice of cardiac surgery, I am very cautiously optimistic,” ...
