Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian became the only hospital in Orange County, and one of the first in the nation, to provide oncologists with the technology to pinpoint tumors during radiation treatment – even in some of the most difficult-to-target areas in the...
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Advanced Monoclonal Antibody Clinical Trial Targeting COVID-19 Comes to California’s Imperial Valley
Imperial County’s El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC) will be participating in yet another clinical trial battling COVID-19. The health system in the very southern most part of California reported in June it would collaborate with University of California, San...
A Small Research Site in Rural NorCal Selected by Moderna & Pfizer/BioNTech for Phase 3 COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Paradigm Clinical Research Centers Inc. (Paradigm Research) in Redding, California, was selected to participate in both the Moderna mRNA-1273 and the Pfizer/BioNTech forthcoming Phase 3 BNT162 clinical trials. Paradigm Research is both a medical clinic and research...
Will Clinical Research Grow in California’s Capital?
Just as the death toll from COVID-19 rose over 90,000 in the United States, Operation Warp Speed was announced by President Donald Trump, an ambitious federally-driven, public-private partnership established to help overcome COVID-19. Among other things, a safe and...
Research-as-a-Care Option Vendor Joins California & Verily in Project Baseline COVID-19 Initiative
Elligo Health Research, a Texas-based research organization emphasizing models supporting clinical research-as-a-care-option, has inked an alliance with health data specialists Verily (part of Google) to support the Project Baseline COVID-19 initiative. In...
Some Data Points Lead to Possible Good Signs for Remdesivir, but Still Too Early to Tell
A growing number of healthcare professionals become optimistic about Gilead’s remdesivir as a possible treatment to at least slow down the SARS-CoV-2 virus in patients. Many Californians participate in clinical trials involving remdesivir and the growing positive...
Cedars-Sinai Enrolling Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients to Assess Use of Remdesivir Against COVID-19
Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles is actively participating in the remdesivir clinical trial as an experimental class of treatment for COVID-19. The prominent Southern California-based provider is expecting to enroll its first patient this week. They seek patients to help...
Some University of California Professors Regularly Profit from Conflicts of Interest, Shortchanging University and State Taxpayers
California has had some of the nation’s most rigorous conflict of interest rules for public employees, from annual reporting to caps on outside income. Surprisingly, the University of California (UC) System hasn’t had a standard reporting format for all...
Greater Provider & Payer Risk Sharing Equals Greater Outcomes: Where will Pharma Fit in?
The recent Integrated Healthcare Associations California Health Care Cost & Quality Atlas measures clinical quality, utilization and total cost of care in the State of California. A key takeaway is that capitation payment models equal improved outcomes and over...
AbbVie and Abbott Labs Settle with Government to Resolve Claims & Kickback Allegations
Both Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie Inc. will settle with the federal government for allegations that they employed kickbacks and unlawful methods of marketing and promotion to sell more TriCor® subscriptions. The allegations are based on activities between 2006 to...
California Sues AbbVie for Alleged Humira Kickback Scheme
TrialSite News include link to the actual lawsuit. The California Department of Insurance sued AbbVie last month for allegedly orchestrating a wide ranging kickback scheme to illegally boost prescriptions of its best-selling Humira drug. Filed in Alameda County...