Focus on Patients

  1. How Brazil's New Law Is Redefining The Country's Clinical Research 9/15/2025

    Brazil aims to revamp its clinical research industry with the introduction of a new law intended to make trials faster, empower local ethics committees, and give patients greater post-trial access to investigational drugs.

  2. Are Pragmatic Trials The Patient Recruitment Solution We've Been Looking For? 9/9/2025

    TransCelerate's Rob DiCicco reintroduces the "pragmatic trial" design concept, discusses its potential benefits, and provides resources for its integration.

  3. How Digital Twins Are Rewriting Clinical Trials 9/2/2025

    While the benefits of digital twins to accelerate clinical trials are undeniable, many questions about their use are still unanswered and go far beyond technology.

  4. Misconceptions About Cancer Clinical Trials And How To Overcome Them 8/27/2025

    Medical oncologist Wasif Saif, MD, MBBS, discusses many of the misconceptions held by patients and clinicians about cancer clinical trials.

  5. Closing The Gender Gap In Clinical Trials With Digital Devices 8/15/2025

    For decades, women have been underrepresented in clinical trials — a gap that’s not just unfortunate but dangerous. Digital devices might be the difference maker, says research physician Anita Phung, MRGCP, MRCP, MBBS, BSc (Hons).

  6. Why Are We So Afraid To Pay Research Participants? 8/1/2025

    Clinical researchers have long toiled over paying trial participants. Now, 1Day Sooner patient advocates explain why ethics and actual regulator sentiment should move industry to change its approach to participant payment.

  7. Age Restrictions In Clinical Trials Unjustly Harm Adults With Childhood Cancer 7/28/2025

    How old is too old for a pediatric cancer trial? Mom-turned-patient advocate Rosemary Sherrod argues that too-stringent age criteria wrongly exclude pediatric cancer patients as they approach adulthood.

  8. More Personalized, Precision Medicine Needed In Psychiatry Clinical Trials 7/16/2025

    Arrivo Bioventures' Joel Raskin, MD, and Greg Rigdon, Ph.D., discuss the importance of personalized and precision medicine in psychiatry clinical trials.

  9. From Protocol To People: Teva's Patient-First Clinical Trials Approach 7/14/2025

    Teva Pharmaceuticals' Head of Global Early Clinical Development Eran Harary, MD, shares how the company approaches drug development by getting patient input early and often.

  10. 2 Challenges In Designing A Clinical Trial Exploring Personalized Elimination Diets 7/3/2025

    Vibrant Wellness clinical coordinator Suzanne Barker, MS, RDN, LDN, CGP, discusses how they faced and resolved two key issues when conducting a food sensitivity clinical trial.