Men's Health and Cancer Awareness Week

With Father's Day coming up this Sunday, June 20, it also marks the week for men's health and cancer awareness. See our blog post on women's cancer awareness week.

Due to a lack of awareness, poor health education and culturally induced behavioral patterns in their work and personal lives, men’s health and well being are deteriorating rapidly. Statistics show that men live sicker and die younger than American women. Men’s Health Week is to bring awareness to the fact that men can do things to prevent suffering and even dying from many avoidable and treatable diseases. It is important for men to pay attention to their bodies and visit a doctor whenever suspicious symptoms arise. Annual physicals are recommended to ensure proper screenings are done. Early detection and treatment of disease is extremely important to maximize your health. To download a Blueprint For Men’s Heath – a publication that discusses the main health issues that men face today – click on this link here.

Best wishes to all Fathers this coming Sunday. To quote Congressman Bill Richardson (Congressional Record, H3905-H39906, May 24, 1994):

“Recognizing and preventing men’s health problems is not just a man’s issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men’s health is truly a family issue.”

Medicine is making new strides everyday to advance discoveries to ease symptoms, cure disease, and better the human situation. Enter our “how do you advance discoveries” contest and your company could win an iPad and get a mention in our press release.

See www.advancedclinical.com

How do you advance discoveries? EXTENDED THROUGH JULY!

Now, you have through July to enter to win an iPad and a mention in our winners press release!

Shorten clinical trials. Reduce risk. Reduce cost! We need YOUR ideas!

Eighty billion drugs are predicted to come off patent in the next three years. While some say this release of patents may save money for the healthcare system as a whole because generics will take the place of those coming off patent, there is no replacement for many drugs and there are patients that need these drugs. As a result, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech companies have two key imperatives:

• "Advance discoveries", aka, reduce clinical trial timelines


• Reduce the escalating costs and risks associated with drug development

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal "Clinical Trial Death Watch" (March 16th 2010) echoes these imperatives. The message from the Wall Street Journal article is: there is a resounding need for efficiency and effectiveness to accelerate clinical trials. Even the government is trying to help with the acceleration of clinical trials. One recent study focused on collaboration. There are, however, still many complex issues that create barriers to realizing these imperatives. See, Forbes (March 26th, 2010 "Research and Markets: Investigating Clinical Trial Costs").

Advanced Clinical wants to ask pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies, “How do you advance discoveries?” What are the best practices you use to shorten clinical trials? How do you reduce risk and cost in drug development? Do you have a strong risk management approach, employee training, or metrics management? Advanced Clinical would like your ideas to create Industry Leading Trial Performance in clinical research.

Let us know how you advance discoveries here. If you win, your ideas will be part of our press release in July, and you will win an iPad!

For winning list announcement, you can follow Advanced Clinical on facebook or on one of our social networks:

Advanced Clinical Facebook Page
http://twitter.com/AdvClinical
http://youtube.com/AdvancedClinical
http://AdvancedClinical.blogspot.com
http://AdvancedClinical.wordpress.com

See www.advancedclinical.com

Risk Management from Advanced Clinical

Risk is a huge problem in clinical trials, and Advanced Clinical is swift and professional about identifying, assessing, prioritizing, mitigating and tracking risks to proactively avoid those risks – before they become issues that cause the trial to delay the trial. Some risks, unmitigated, can cause 2 years of delay! At a direct and indirect slippage cost of $6MM - $15MM/day, that adds up!

Advanced Clinical:

o Assesses risks
o Prioritizes risks
o Reduces uncertainty
o Mitigates risks
o Manages/monitors risks
o Optimizes procedures to reverse risks

Advanced Clinical recognizes the four types of risk: operational, strategic, financial, and market, so no area is overlooked. Advanced Clinical also assesses the scale of the impact, and the likelihood of occurrence of the risk over the trial period.

We want success and advancement for your discovery's trial as much as you do, and managing and mitigating risks is one of our keys to success.

Does this sound like a great way to advance discoveries? We think it is. Enter our “how do you advance discoveries” contest and your company could win an iPad and get a mention in our press release.

See www.advancedclinical.com

How do you advance discoveries? NOW--Win an iPad!

Now, winners receive an iPad and mention in our winners press release!

Shorten clinical trials. Reduce risk. Reduce cost! We need YOUR ideas!

Eighty billion drugs are predicted to come off patent in the next three years. While some say this release of patents may save money for the healthcare system as a whole because generics will take the place of those coming off patent, there is no replacement for many drugs and there are patients that need these drugs. As a result, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech companies have two key imperatives:

• "Advance discoveries", aka, reduce clinical trial timelines


• Reduce the escalating costs and risks associated with drug development

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal "Clinical Trial Death Watch" (March 16th 2010) echoes these imperatives. The message from the Wall Street Journal article is: there is a resounding need for efficiency and effectiveness to accelerate clinical trials. Even the government is trying to help with the acceleration of clinical trials. One recent study focused on collaboration. There are, however, still many complex issues that create barriers to realizing these imperatives. See, Forbes (March 26th, 2010 "Research and Markets: Investigating Clinical Trial Costs").

Advanced Clinical wants to ask pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies, “How do you advance discoveries?” What are the best practices you use to shorten clinical trials? How do you reduce risk and cost in drug development? Do you have a strong risk management approach, employee training, or metrics management? Advanced Clinical would like your ideas to create Industry Leading Trial Performance in clinical research.

Let us know how you advance discoveries here. If you win, your ideas will be part of our press release in June, and you will win an iPad! The winning list of ideas will be posted on June 20, 2010.



For winning list announcement, you can follow Advanced Clinical on facebook or on one of our social networks:

Advanced Clinical Facebook Page
http://twitter.com/AdvClinical
http://youtube.com/AdvancedClinical
http://AdvancedClinical.blogspot.com
http://AdvancedClinical.wordpress.com

See www.advancedclinical.com