Newsletter | December 8, 2025

12.08.25 -- Sites Are 3X Likely To Die In The First Year Than New Businesses

PATIENT CENTRICITY

This Real-World Example Illustrates The Power Of Patient Centricity In Clinical Trials

Ardelyx Chief Patient Officer Laura Williams, MD, MPH, reflects on how patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) successfully guided Ardelyx’s clinical trial program.

Elevating Patient Centricity In Clinical Trials

How can the integration of patient perspectives throughout the clinical trial process enhance engagement and outcomes? Implementing a patient-centric model can help your organization address challenges.

Clinical Trial Payments And Ethics: Your Top Questions Answered

Fair compensation in trials requires distinguishing reimbursement from stipends. Learn the ethical principles that ensure payments uphold participant respect and remove financial barriers.

Ensure The Management Of Patient Inquiries Reflects Your Brand Values

Bridge the gap between patients and study teams by delivering a patient-centered inquiry management solution that aligns with institutional brand values and enhances access to clinical trials.

PATIENT RECRUITMENT

Behavior Modeling Can Help Sponsors Better Understand Sites And Patients

Learn how behavioral modeling can identify patients at risk of dropout and sites that may need additional support, so you can build a more resilient research network.

Is Digital Recruitment For Clinical Trials Ethical By Design?

Digital recruitment poses ethical challenges. Upholding trust and ensuring diligent IRB review is key to designing fair, successful, and compliant patient enrollment strategies.

6 Clinical Trial Patient Retention Tips And Strategies

Examine the critical issue of patient retention in clinical trials and six practical strategies to help CROs, biopharma companies, and clinical trial staff address these challenges.

Solve Enrollment Struggles With Better Utilization Of Healthcare Data

Industry leaders from the U.S. FDA, Freenome, Cerner Enviza, Deep Lens, and Elligo Health Research explore potential pitfalls of healthcare data as well as solutions and strategies for overcoming them.

Recruiting High-Performing Sites To Beat Forecasted Trial Start Date

Explore a partnership that enabled Syneos Health to achieve its enrollment goals, increasing the likelihood of the study's success, and resulting in cost savings and maximized efficiency.

From Weeks To Days: An Innovative Approach To Patient Recruitment

Discover how AI-driven, personalized communication can break linguistic and literacy barriers to make patient recruitment faster, more inclusive, and 30% more effective.

CLINICAL SITES

Sites Are 3X Likely To Die In The First Year Than New Businesses

Milken Institute Health Director of Research Andrew Friedson, Ph.D., reveals the stark truth of site survivability and discusses how factors like available population and local economic conditions factor into survival rates.

Top 5 Challenges In Psoriasis Trials (And How To Overcome Them)

Psoriasis trials face recruitment, endpoint, regulatory, and operational challenges. Identifying common hurdles early helps sponsors streamline processes, avoid setbacks, and prevent costly delays.

Early Phase Oncology Site Network: Benefits Of A Personal Touch

Choose a site network built on partnership — not volume — to drive smoother early-phase oncology trials and deliver better outcomes for sponsors, sites, and patients.

Sponsors, CROs, And Tech Vendors Can Reduce Site Tech Overload

Sites juggle dozens of applications, which increases their workload and limits their capacity. Sites need an industry-wide single sign-on experience that brings key systems and applications under one roof.

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