The News Review:

- PHT Corporation Co-Sponsors ncology Research Seminar; Vice President…
- pen Source Clinical Trial Software Gets Attention at DIA Annual…
- Physician Reveal Thyself
- Medical Research Should Include More Women Examine Role of Gender in…

PHT Corporation Co-Sponsors ncology Research Seminar; Vice President…
Maketwire РMaketwire (Communiqu̩s de presse) РMay 12, 2008
PHT is the market-leading provider of electronic patient reportedoutcome (ePR) solutions used in more than 345 clinical trials worldwide. PHT is sponsoring the seminars with ICN and Research Technology Inc.

pen Source Clinical Trial Software Gets Attention at DIA Annual…
PR Web – PR Web (press release) – May 12, 2008
This presentation will evaluate how open standards-based software can alleviate the challenges of flexibility interoperability and cost in regulated clinical research environments. Presenters will discuss the unique advantages and challenges in developing and using open source software for tasks such as electronic data capture and provide an overview of other open source technologies currently being used in clinical trials. As clinical research becomes more informatics intensive organizations are looking towards transparent standards-based systems to better meet challenges of flexibility interoperability compliance and cost. As part of this pen Source Software (SS) is becoming a key IT component in the clinical research enterprise. SS defined loosely as software that allows programmers to openly read redistribute and modify the source code for a piece of software can exist in several contexts. It can serve as a platform or operating system (Linux) as development tools (compilers and IDEs such as GCC or Eclipse) as infrastructure applications (Apache web server caGrid) or as user-facing applications (Firefox Alfresco penClinica R). Because it is so diverse chances are high that SS is being used somewhere in every sizeable organization.

Physician Reveal Thyself
BusinessWeek – May 12, 2008
(The Duke paper doesn’t name individual doctors. ) f the 75 authors who disclosed relationships with companies only two did so consistently; the rest named their corporate sponsors in some journals but not others. Lead author Kevin Weinfurt of the Duke Clinical Research Institute says journal editors are as much to blame as authors are for the lack of transparency. "These journals should be doing better" at policing their disclosure rules he says. "We hope this is a wake-up call. "The Companies RespondDisclosure guidelines are set by the journals and they’re completely voluntary. Some federal legislators have proposed mandating a national database that would list all doctors’ financial ties to companies but so far those efforts have stalled.

Medical Research Should Include More Women Examine Role of Gender in…
Newswise – Newswise (press release) – May 12, 2008
Hayes and Redberg assert that ?the lack of sex differences should not be assumed and instead must be systematically studied. ? Given this information ?analyzing data by sex for conditions or treatments affecting both men and women is the only way we will be able to begin to provide optimal care for all patients? they write. A peer-review journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings publishes original articles and reviews dealing with clinical and laboratory medicine clinical research basic science research and clinical epidemiology. Mayo Clinic Proceedings is published monthly by Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research as part of its commitment to the medical education of physicians. The journal has been published for more than 80 years and has a circulation of 130000 nationally and internationally. Articles are available online at www. mayoclinicproceedings.