FDA builds higher walls between advisors, industry
Panellists serving on the FDA's advisory committees will have stricter limits on their financial ties to industry under a raft of reforms announced by the agency yesterday.
Archives for August 4, 2008
inVentive to expand offering with PMG buy
Pharmaceutical commercialization services specialist inVentive Health is to buy fellow New Jersey-based healthcare research firm Patient Marketing Group (PMG) for an all cash payment of $14.5m (€9.4m).
Millipore’s bioprocess woes mar otherwise positive Q2
The lacklustre performance of Millipore’s bioprocess division has continued into the second quarter of the year with revenues reaching $229.8m (€147m) up just one per cent on the comparable 2007 quarter.
ICON module makes electronic patient diaries easy
ICON has introduced an electronic Patient Recorded Outcomes (ePRO) module that could slash weeks off the time it takes to implement the technology in clinical trials.