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Chemistry World January 25, 2013 Rajesh Parishwad	Indian supreme court's anger over unregulated clinical trials The fledgling clinical trials industry in India has been hit by recent revelations of a lack of regulation. Now, the country's supreme court has criticized the body that oversees clinical trials for its inaction in the face of these unethical practices.
AskMen.com Richard Stevens	Participating In Clinical Trials Check out what participating in clinical trials involves and how you can join a study. You may even make some cash in the process.
Wired March 2006 Jennifer Kahn	A Nation of Guinea Pigs There's a new outsourcing boom in South Asia - and a billion people are jockeying for the jobs. How India became the global hot spot for drug trials.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2006 Sarah Houlton	Global Report: People Problems A recent clinical trials disaster is causing UK regulators to consider revising its guidelines for Phase I human studies for biologics. However, in many cases, potential solutions present additional problems.
Chemistry World October 15, 2013 Dinsa Sachan	Supreme court ruling brings clinical trials to a halt in India The fate of 162 global clinical trials hangs in the balance, as the top Indian court has asked the government to provide more details on their approval process before they can proceed.
Chemistry World April 2006 Karen Harries-Rees	Editorial: Drugs Testing on Trial A drugs trial in the UK that went disastrously wrong last month has raised questions about the ethics of using paid volunteers in clinical trials and the usefulness of animal testing.
The Motley Fool July 10, 2006 Brian Lawler	Northfield Frowns on Focus From "20/20" The maker of artificial blood finds yet another critic. But the impending end of the PolyHeme trial probably won't represent the end of criticism of the artificial blood. Only if good clinical trial results are announced later this year will Northfield's critics be silenced.
BusinessWeek May 28, 2007 Bruce Einhorn	The Rush To Test Drugs In China Despite ethical concerns, Big Pharma is recruiting more patients for clinical trials in China.
Chemistry World April 5, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Roche to release Tamiflu trial data Swiss pharma company Roche has finally agreed to give independent researchers access to data on all 74 clinical trials it ran on the antiviral influenza drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir).
The Motley Fool June 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	Tag-Teaming Melanoma for Fun and Profit Bristol-Myers Squibb and Roche hook up.
Chemistry World July 25, 2006 Bea Perks	Clinical Chaos Under Scrutiny Clinical trials of new drugs need to be tightened up, according to an expert group convened in the aftermath of UK trials that left six people fighting for their lives.
The Motley Fool September 13, 2007 Brian Orelli	Alfacell's Awkward Wait Waiting for subjects to die is a somber part of the oncology clinical trial process. Alfacell is doing just that in its final phase three trial with its lead cancer drug candidate. Investors take note.
The Motley Fool March 1, 2007 Brian Lawler	Know Your Drug Stock ABCs: Part 2 Investing in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries can be difficult. Here are terms investors should know to better understand how the clinical trial process involved with bringing a drug to market works.
Chemistry World January 7, 2014 Angeli Mehta	Flu drug stockpile may be worthless The case for spending hundreds of millions of pounds stockpiling antivirals for use in a flu pandemic is based on 'judgement rather than on evidence of their effectiveness', according to a parliamentary committee.
The Motley Fool September 8, 2004 Charly Travers	Will a Clinical Trial Database Help Investors? While this development is certainly good news for patients and physicians, the impact on investors may be minimal, depending upon the type of data that will be released.
Bio-IT World April 2006 Mark D. Uehling	Debating Clinical Registries and Databases The pharmaceutical industry has been forced by medical journal editors and Congress to make public more data about clinical trials. Registries are here, most people are used to them, and they're not going away. But can the industry do registries and databases better?
Bio-IT World May 9, 2003 Mark D. Uehling	Data Rapture? Electronic capture of data: Some say it unclogs the medieval clinical trials process. Others remain skeptical of software and put their trust in paper.
The Motley Fool March 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	Look for Companies That Strike First Head-to-head trials, whether they're run by companies or by third parties, can be scary. But the way to make big money is by selling drugs that offer superior benefits, so investors should welcome the onslaught of upcoming comparative trial data.
Chemistry World November 12, 2013 Dinsa Sachan	Rough patch for India's clinical trial industry The Indian clinical trial industry is beset by uncertainty. Campaigners have petitioned the courts claiming that drug companies are exploiting poor people and this has led to more than 100 trials being put on hold.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2006 Brian Lawler	InterMune Plays "Let's Make a Deal" The biopharmaceutical 's deal with Roche could mean stiff competition for rival Vertex. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool December 11, 2009 Brian Orelli	Roche and Biogen's Blockbuster Making Good Progress Roche and Biogen move their potential blockbuster through the clinical trial maze.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Brian Orelli	Clinical Data Gets Personal Clinical Data's lead compound Vilazodone posts strong phase 3 results. The company is searching for common genetic markers among patients who responded positively to the drug.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Ken Getz	Building Clinical Trial Awareness for Patients: Why Not Try the Pharmacist? The author explains how building a stakeholder outreach agenda around the community pharmacist can lead to a better outcome in managing the complex ins and outs of a trial protocol.
Chemistry World August 7, 2013 Emma Stoye	AllTrials releases plan for clinical trial reporting The organizations behind AllTrials, a public campaign calling for detailed information on clinical trials to be publically available, have put together a detailed plan on how to achieve clinical trial reporting on a global scale.
The Motley Fool August 27, 2010 Brian Orelli	Down 35%! This Just Shouldn't Happen Someone's to blame and it isn't ImmunoGen.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2007 Brian Orelli	Clinical Trial Failures Don't Bother These Companies Contract research organizations, outsourcing companies hired by pharmaceutical and biotech companies to run pre-clinical tests and clinical trials for them, succeed even when drugs fail, and more work may be coming their way.
Bio-IT World March 10, 2003 Dawn Stover	E-Recruitment: Trial by Wire Online databases are helping patients find clinical trials -- but e-recruitment is no panacea for participant shortages.
Managed Care July 2005 Martin Sipkoff	Support Grows for Establishing National Clinical Trial Registry Stakeholders are pushing for a national clinical trial registry, and efforts by UnitedHealth Group are in the forefront. Medical journals are setting hard and fast rules.
Bio-IT World August 13, 2002 Mark D. Uehling	Clinical Trial Data Management: Tortured by Paper Reams of paper stuffed into boxes and shipped to the FDA by the truckload is hardly the best approach to drug approval. But what's the right way?
The Motley Fool November 27, 2006 Brian Lawler	Roche Says Goodbye to PDL The larger pharmaceutical drops out of daclizumab development. Investors, take note.
Reason October 2007 Ronald Bailey	Is Industry-Funded Science Killing You? The overrated risks and underrated benefits of pharmaceutical research "conflicts of interest."
The Motley Fool December 27, 2006 Brian Lawler	Telik Falls Short Shares of another biopharma fall after disappointing clinical trial results.
Chemistry World February 26, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Q and A: Do Antidepressants Work? A widely-reported analysis of clinical trial data for Prozac and related antidepressant drugs has claimed that the medicines work little better than chemically-inactive placebos in all but the most severely depressed patients.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2007 Brian Orelli	The Phase 2 Blues Drug developer Cytokinetics disappoints investors with failed clinical trials.
Chemistry World June 26, 2012 Sarah Houlton	Roche rapped for side-effect reporting failure Roche has been rapped by the European Medicines Agency for failing to report a large number of potential drug side-effects. The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency identified deficiencies in the company's medicine safety reporting system.
The Motley Fool September 8, 2010 Brian Orelli	You Must Realize This Drug Works by Now Vertex concludes its phase 3 trials with another win.
The Motley Fool June 2, 2009 Brian Orelli	Pfizer: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em Sutent fails. Again.
The Motley Fool June 21, 2004 Brian Gorman	Clinical Trials Controversy The American Medical Association wants more transparency in clinical trials, a proposal that may leave drug companies and investors with mixed feelings.
Chemistry World June 8, 2015 Rebecca Trager	NIH drug manufacturing unit shut down The halt could potentially affect 46 clinical trials, and about 250 patients who are either receiving, or about to receive, products manufactured at the facility.
The Motley Fool December 29, 2006 Brian Lawler	Is Threshold on the Verge of Success? Shares of Threshold Pharmaceuticals were the second-best performer on the market yesterday, up 28% as a result of positive phase 2 clinical trial results for its lead drug, glufosfamide.
Chemistry World March 4, 2013 Andy Extance	UK considers patent rule change for trials The UK has announced plans to amend aspects of its patent law that may be encouraging pharma companies to run their clinical trials in other countries.
Bio-IT World December 15, 2003 Mark D. Uehling	Model Patient Despite the FDA's new support for computational modeling, the pharmaceutical industry remains cautious about simulating clinical trials.
Salon.com August 18, 2000 Vera Hassner Sharav & Adil E. Shamoo	Lab rats Why do people who participate in clinical studies have fewer protections than animals?
Salon.com August 2, 2001 Ivan Oransky	Human guinea pigs When people put their bodies on the line in medical trials, can they be sure that scientists aren't cutting corners or preoccupied with stock prices?
The Motley Fool January 15, 2008 Brian Orelli	Ideal Results From Schering A post-marketing clinical trial from Schering on its hepatitis C virus treatment Pegintron yields better results for the company, although not without some controversy. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2009 Brian Orelli	Pfizer + Sutent = One Exciting Roller Coaster This time on the down slope, unfortunately.
Chemistry World October 8, 2014 Phillip Broadwith	EMA finalizes trial transparency rules The European Medicines Agency has finalized its policy for sharing data from clinical trials.
Reason Aug/Sep 2007 Kerry Howley	Dying for Lifesaving Drugs Will desperate patients destroy the pharmaceutical system that produces tomorrow's treatments?
The Motley Fool May 25, 2005 Tom Taulli	Genentech's Vision Thing Genentech has been on fire. Now the challenge will be to manage the growth. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 15, 2008 Brian Orelli	No Enhance-ment From Zetia Merck and Schering report bad news, but how much will it affect sales? Investors, take note.