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International Women’s Day: Female life science leaders

Drug Discovery World

For International Women’s Day, DDW’s Diana Spencer celebrates some of the women in leadership making an impact on the drug discovery and life sciences sector. The life sciences sector has traditionally outperformed others when it comes to attracting women to its workforce.

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Diversity in Clinical Trials: Tackling the Issues in Alzheimer’s Research at AAIC 2021

XTalks

Just as clinical researchers in other therapeutic areas have renewed their commitment to improving participant diversity in clinical trials, so too have those working in Alzheimer’s research. Fortunately, there are a number of researchers working on this issue. Similarly, older Latino and Hispanic individuals are 1.5

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Steps to building a more patient-centric industry

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To ease this burden, the life sciences industry has been searching for ways to make clinical trials more accessible for patients and to drive participation numbers, increase participant diversity, and improve overall patient experience. Imagine, clinical research as an accessible care option to anyone. Keep it simple.

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An Evolving Regulatory Environment for Rare and Orphan Diseases

Advarra

Orphan drugs have historically faced a number of barriers, such as limited research and development (R&D) investment due to an expected lack of profitability as well as challenges in clinical trial design and recruitment. Before 1983, only 38 orphan drugs had received U.S. Other FDA Orphan Disease Focus Areas.

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Clinical Trials for Pulmonary Fibrosis: How Can Participation Be Improved?

XTalks

RELATED: New Report Highlights Major Barriers to IPF Disease Management Clinical trials for pulmonary fibrosis play a crucial role in advancing our understanding of the disease and developing new treatment options. They aim to improve patient outcomes, slow disease progression and enhance quality of life.

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Top Three Reasons Why Your Medical Device Needs a Clinical Trial

Advarra

Regulations for research involving devices, in vitro diagnostics (IVDs), and digital therapeutics differ from those governing pharmaceutical development. These products will require clinical trial data to get to market, but with significantly fewer participants required as compared to a drug trial.

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Cardiovascular Clinical Trials with Patient Diversity: Challenges and Considerations

XTalks

This started back in 1993 when the FDA established guidelines to increase diversity by gender and race/ethnicity of participants in clinical trials that were contributing to new drug approvals. In January 2015, the FDA implemented its Drug Trials Snapshots program to make clinical trial demographic data more transparent and available.