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CWWeekly January 14th Issue 2008

Friday, January 18, 2008 05:01 PM

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Negative or Positive Trial Results?

Thursday, January 17, 2008 02:19 PM

There’s some great quotes in the Wall Street Journal’s story about the New England Journal of Medicine’s assertion that effectiveness of antidepressants has been exaggerated by selective publication of positive clinical trial results.

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CenterWatch Monthly January 2008 Issue

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 01:21 PM

2007 Year in Review:  A Year of CRO Consolidation and Global Expansion

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2007 Year in Review: A Year of CRO Consolidation and Global Expansion

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:00 AM

2007 saw activity intensify in regions such as Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe. In 2006, only a handful of sponsors and CROs had toeholds in India and China. This year, a flurry of expansions took place in those areas as the entire clinical trials industry seemed to be jockeying for the potential R&D windfalls predicted.

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Going Mad for CROs

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:24 AM

Public, global contract research organizations (CROs) are having a great run with stock prices soaring and their global growth story intact. The sector got additional validation Jan. 14 when “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer featured the niche. In general, star stock picker Cramer got the story straight on CROs, even though a few times he mispronounced company names. That happens, but at least he got the stock symbols right. And that is what counts. You can watch a replay of the episode here.

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Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Drug Misses Primary Endpoint

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 07:20 AM

Genitope reported negative results from a phase III trial of MyVax, a patient-specific immunotherapy, for the treatment of previously untreated follicular B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (fNHL). The subjects enrolled in this double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial first received chemotherapy to reduce their tumor burden, followed by a six-month rest period.

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U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Hear Abigail Alliance v. Eschenbach

Monday, January 14, 2008 05:19 PM

The Abigail Alliance’s petition for a writ of certiorari in The Supreme Court of the United States was denied on January 14. A writ of certiorari is a document which a losing party files with the Supreme Court asking it to review the decision of a lower court.  It includes a list of the parties, a statement of the facts of the case, the legal questions presented for review, and arguments as to why the Court should grant the writ.

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Quintiles Expands Central Lab in China; Consolidates Services

Monday, January 14, 2008 07:27 AM

Quintiles has consolidated its China-based Global Central Laboratories and Clinical Development Services (CDS) businesses into a new, 17,000-square-foot facility in Sun Dong Ann Plaza in Beijing. The new site is larger than the CRO’s original laboratory located at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH). The CDS plans to grow to a staff of more than 60 in the next year.

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CWWeekly January 7th 2008 Issue

Friday, January 11, 2008 10:28 AM

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Jobson Medical Information LLC Acquires CenterWatch and New England IRB From Thomson Healthcare

Wednesday, January 9, 2008 07:54 AM

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Jobson Medical Information LLC ("JMI"), a leading healthcare information and marketing services provider, announced that they had acquired the assets of CenterWatch and The New England Institutional Review Board ("NEIRB") from Thomson Healthcare Inc., a subsidiary of the Thomson Corporation.  Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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