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On Clinical Trials Day, CVS shares lessons learned from one year providing trial services

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In recent years the retail pharmacy chain has begun to delve more and more deeply into the healthcare sector – by constantly expanding the basic healthcare services offered at their instore Minute Clinics, and by buying into the health insurance insurance space with their $69 billion purchase of Aetna in 2017. Take us back to May 2020.

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CVS, Medable alliance aims to tackle diversity in clinical trials

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CVS Health has said it will beef up its clinical trials operations, improving its ability to recruit patients from a broad demographic spectrum, via an agreement with digital health company Medable.

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3 Ways to Fast Track Your Career in Clinical Research

XTalks

If you’ve spent some time working as a clinical research associate (CRA) and are looking to advance your career, you might be wondering where to start. Here are three ways to advance your career in clinical research. In addition, ICON runs a graduate program to train the next generation of clinical researchers.

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The Year Ahead in Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities for Clinical Trial Sites

ACRP blog

Views from ACRP Members Topics highlighted include diversity and inclusion, decentralized clinical trial (DCT) elements, workforce challenges, and a possible role for sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) in supporting outreach by sites based in diverse communities.

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Survey of Site Staff Offers Best Tactics to Target for Improving Participant Diversity

ACRP blog

Clinical trial sites that offer their study volunteers travel-related reimbursement and services, translated documents and translator services, and adequate compensation can have the most impact in terms of achieving diverse enrollment of participants, according to a new survey by a quartet of clinical researchers.

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Why I Fight | A message from Gary Fishbein, MD, MPH

Worldwide Clinical Trials

Join us as we celebrate cancer research awareness month and clinical trials awareness month. Where I trained at the University of Maryland, there was literally a bridge that connected the research labs to the clinic. Learn more about Gary and his work with oncology at Worldwide Clinical Trials.

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Prioritizing a Positive Patient Experience

ACRP blog

“Decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) were critical in enabling clinical research activities during the pandemic,” notes Adam Samson, MS, PMP, CCRA, CCRC, CCDM, Head of Clinical Delivery Operations, Real-World Evidence Clinical Trials, at Walgreens. Gaps and risks can then be identified and addressed.