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COVID-19 Trial Changes Are "Propulsive Force" For Digital Adoption

 
• By Cole Werble

Robert Califf, a former FDA commissioner turned Verily Life Sciences exec, is just one of the voice predicting a long-term impact on clinical trial processes from the COVID-19 outbreak.

Current and former US Food and Drug Administration officials are expressing broad agreement that COVID-19 will likely be a prod to the wider-ranging acceptance of digital health information from clinical trials.

The practical difficulties of collecting information at specific sites during the mobility restriction of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic are acting as...

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• By Anju Ghangurde

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• By Eliza Slawther

The UK regulator wants to help companies to develop bacteriophages for the treatment of infections. Its first guidance on this topic offers advice to researchers and sets out the regulatory requirements they will need to meet.

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• By Natasha Barrow

A UK research team has used artificial intelligence to find new treatments for cancer using existing US Food and Drug Administration-approved medicines that are not normally not used for the disease.