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Millennium Initiates Phase I clinical trial of MLN1021, a Novel, Oral Factor Xa Inhibitor: In this article Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discusses the initiation of a phase I clinical trial of MLN1021, an orally administered inhibitor of Factor Xa, a critical enzyme in the formation of blood clots. MLN1021 will be investigated for a variety of applications in patients with thrombotic disease, including preventing and...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., clinical trial, patient; White papers
Millennium Initiates Phase I clinical trial of MLN1202: In this article Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discusses the initiation of a phase I clinical trial of MLN1202. MLN1202, a novel humanized monoclonal antibody that blocks the chemokine receptor known as CCR2, is being developed as a potential treatment for patients with rheumatoid arthritis and possibly other inflammatory diseases. The primary...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., clinical trial, patient; White papers
Millennium Initiates Phase I clinical trial of MLN2704 in Patients With Metastatic Androgen Independent Prostate Cancer: In this article Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discusses the initiation of a phase I clinical trial of MLN2704 (formerly known as MLN591DM1) in patients with metastatic androgen-independent prostate cancer. MLN2704 is designed to deliver the maytansanoid chemotherapeutic agent DM1 directly to prostate cancer cells through the MLN591 delivery mechanism, a targeting...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., clinical trial, patient, agent; White papers
Millennium Initiates Phase I clinical trial of MLN3897: In this article Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discusses the initiation of a phase I clinical trial of MLN3897, the first compound to enter clinical trials from its inflammation collaboration with Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. MLN3897 (Aventis' compound code: AVE-9897), an orally-administered small molecule, is designed to block CCR1, a chemokine receptor found...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., clinical trial, collaboration; White papers
Millennium and Schering-Plough Initiate clinical trial With INTEGRILIN (Eptifibatide) Injection in Early Use Acute Coronary Syndrome Setting: In this article Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Schering-Plough Corporation discusses the initiation of a multicenter phase IIIb clinical trial to evaluate the benefit of INTEGRILIN when administered early to high-risk patients experiencing non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome. The trial, known as EARLY ACS (Early Glycoprotein IIb-IIIa Inhibition in Non-ST-segment Elevation...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., Schering-Plough Corp., syndrome, clinical trial, patient, benefit; White papers

Merck & Co., Inc.: Merck Determines Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services Improves Confidentiality of clinical trial Information: Merck & Co., Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets innovative products to improve human and animal health. Merck ships confidential documents regarding its late-stage clinical drug trials to physicians around the country during the trials' course. Merck relies on the physicians to protect the documents' confidentiality after delivery. Merck evaluated Microsoft...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), HEALTHCARE, Microsoft Corp., Merck & Co. Inc., confidentiality, clinical trial, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, physician; Case studies
Verity ClinCapture: Content Capture From Case Report Forms During clinical trials: There are 10,000 clinical trials each year in the US alone. Of these, 70% are still paper based. Despite the promise of electronic data capture EDC as a means to reduce time and costs in the clinical trials process, the pharmaceutical sector has not embraced EDC due to a combination...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, clinical trial, Verity Inc., pharmaceutical company, biotechnology; Case studies
Millennium Announces Findings From a Phase I clinical trial of MLN2704 in Progressive, Metastatic Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer: In this article Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discusses their preliminary results from a phase I clinical trial of MLN2704 in patients with progressive metastatic hormone- refractory prostate cancer. The findings from the study indicated that MLN2704 was very well tolerated and produced antitumor activity, including one partial response in a patient...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., clinical trial, patient; White papers
Why Biogenerics Will Survive Genzyme's Problems: The Food and Drug Administration rejected Genzyme's request to sell a version of its drug Myozyme made in a new factory, a decision some journalists and bloggers insist on casting as a black mark against the very notion of generic biotech drugs. There's just one problem: These...; Tags: FDA, Genzyme Corp., Clinical Trial, Biotech Drug, WSJ Health Blog, Biotech Industry, Biotechnology, Federal Government, Government, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-22
EDC in clinical trials: A Benchmark Analysis of Oracle RDC: As the volume of information collected in clinical trials continues to grow, data collection and management is becoming a priority for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Capturing data in a more accurate and timely fashion is a critical component to reducing time to market for potential new drugs. Companies are aggressively...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, International Data Group, clinical trial, biotechnology, survey, health care, analysis; White papers 2006-06-01
Reporting clinical trial Results to Inform Providers, Payers, and Consumers: Results of randomized clinical trials are the preferred "Evidence" for establishing the benefits and safety of medical treatments. This paper presents evidence suggesting that the conventional approach to reporting clinical trials has fundamental flaws that can result in overlooking identifiable subgroups harmed by a treatment while underestimating benefits to others....; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Project HOPE, clinical trial, benefit, patient, incentive; White papers 2005-12-01
Performance Evaluation of Management Information Systems in clinical trials: A System Dynamics Approach: The complexity and characteristics of the pharmaceutical firm present an intriguing context for underlying information management issues during clinical trials for new drug development. This paper reports on the evaluation and performance of MIS for information management in clinical trials in new drug development. The main objective of the study...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Performance management, clinical trial, MIS, information management, performance evaluation, performance; White papers 2005-08-19
The IT Antidote: Compounding these problems, the process of drug development has never been so expensive and time-consuming, the main culprit of which is the clinical trial process. This article discusses how the latest generation of IT support tools is proving invaluable to the pharmaceutical industry as it tackles the spiraling costs and...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, clinical trial, information technology, industry, tool; White papers 2005-05-05
Oracle Solutions for Medical Devices: Oracle's solutions for the medical devices manufacturing industry allow one to manage resources and costs across product development, clinical trials, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and service. They help a person optimize his or her new product development cycle time, reduce compliance risk, and streamline business processes. Oracle's ability to unify information...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Product marketing, medical device, Oracle Corp., New Product Development, clinical trial, product development, supplier, business process, compliance, manufacturing, marketing, partnership, sales; White papers 2005-11-22
Effects of Home Visits by Home Nurses to Elderly People With Health Problems: Design of a Randomized clinical trial: This white paper deals in carrying out a study to investigate the effects in a population of elderly with perceived poor health rather than the general population. It also involves testing whether nurses who are qualified at a lower professional level home nurses instead of public health nurses are able...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, BioMed Central, public health, clinical trial, health care, strategy; White papers 2004-12-15
New clinical trial Data Showed the Addition of INTEGRILIN (Eptifibatide) Injection Achieved Superior Platelet Inhibition and Less Heart Muscle Damage When Compared to a Commonly Used Antiplatelet Regimen Alone: In this article Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discusses the CLEAR Platelets Clopidogrel Loading with Eptifibatide to Arrest the Reactivity of Platelets trial, the addition of INTEGRILIN, a potent glycoprotein GP IIb-IIIa inhibitor, to a commonly used antiplatelet regimen provided superior platelet inhibition and prevention of heart muscle damage associated with elective...; Tags: Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., regimen, clinical trial, patient; White papers 2004-11-08
Effects of Trial Design on Participation and Costs in clinical trials With an Examination of Cost Analysis Methods and Data Sources: This paper comprises a series of studies conducted as part of the Cost of Cancer Treatment Study CCTS. The specific aims include exploring theoretical issues concerning the problem of representativeness in trial design with an explicit investigation of the causes of the under-representation of older adults in clinical cancer trials;...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, RAND Corp., clinical trial, data source, modeling, health care; White papers 2004-10-21
Data Capture for clinical trials: The value of automated data capture in clinical trials has never been greater. While pharmaceutical companies are under increasing pressure to develop and test new drugs as quickly and efficiently as possible most clinical trials remain mired in seas of paperwork that consume vast numbers of staff hours, storage space...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Verity Inc., clinical trial, data capture, storage; White papers 2004-09-16
A Global View of Pharmaceutical Risks and Challenges: The paper depicts that in the era of the large scale; randomized clinical trial will peak and pass. Randomized clinical trials may become the dinosaurs of the clinical trials process. One may need to revise the method of development - Phase I clinical trials through Phases III and IV -...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Ernst & Young LLP, clinical trial; White papers 2004-08-13
Is a Comprehensive Registry of clinical trials Information Inevitable?: Though the concept of a comprehensive clinical trials database surfaced in the mid 1970's, nearly 30 years later, in the United States, there is still no all-inclusive system in place for organizing, tracking, and disseminating information about ongoing clinical trials. This pharmaceutical industry alert examines the issues and forces behind...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, clinical trial, database, industry; White papers 2004-08-01