Patient Recruitment/Retention Featured Articles

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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).

5. When Survival Comes First, Trials Come Last 8/1/2025

   Infectious disease PI Dr. Claudia Martorell has long focused on recruiting underserved populations into clinical trials. But amid healthcare cuts, economic instability, and a retreat from DEI initiatives, she’s now watching access unravel. In this interview, Martorell shares what happens when survival takes priority over research — and why diversity in trials is once again at risk.

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.