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  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

Abstract—Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center pilot randomized View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

(MMRC), and brought together a diverse body of academics, researchers, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, physicians, and patients to combine their efforts around the disease. The MMRF had helped facilitate clinical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

in January. The product, a simple DNA saliva test to determine an individual's personal sensitivity to routine levels of mercury, is grounded in an eight-year clinical trial that found about one in five... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

with a colleague from Otsuka, Carson was offered the job of introducing Abilify to Japanese consumers. This new responsibility included the task of running clinical trials for Abilify in Japan. The project... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

application to conduct human clinical trials in Alzheimer’s patients at the end of the year. Beka Solomon’s response? About time. “I figured this out 10 years ago,” she told her son. “Why haven’t you... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

aversion assertion emerge. This pattern does not emerge in short experiments or in the first 10 trials of long experiments. Nor does it emerge in long experiments with two-outcome symmetric gambles or in long experiments with asymmetric... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

organizations, Kaplan and Haas identify five common mistakes when managers attempt to cut health care costs. The mistakes are triggered, primarily, by working from the line-item expense categories on P&Ls, rather than clinically based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

surprised to hear as he nurtured the intraoperative radiotherapy business inside his company's microsurgery unit. But he also didn't expect it to take 13 years to get to the end of an all-important clinical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Making Change

rapid urbanization, sedentary lives, and bad diets. It requires a holistic approach where engineers, designers, and clinicians work together. What lies ahead? We have a clinical trial coming up to validate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

relationship using data from 93 change projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The results show social position, both within the field and within the organization, influences actors'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of their virtual reality product,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

years, PAREXEL has built a strong technology services business that is its key differentiator, although clinical trials remain its most lucrative segment. Additionally, PAREXEL, like others in the industry,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

Cialis's hard-won brand equity with physicians and patients? With the final stages of clinical trials for the new indication, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), soon to be carried out, the team had to make... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Life in Lockdown

a kitten dangling from a tree limb. One visit to Google kills that idea; there are already dozens of companies catering to premenstrual women. What about a service that can make a visit to an urgent care clinic more efficient and draw... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

seeks to complete its clinical trials with very little startup funding and a small staff when compared to its competitors. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315045-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

cause of blindness. In October 2009 the company entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon, which is now taking Potentia's drug candidate through Clinical 2 trials with a to-market goal... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

The Best-Laid Plans

in on a treatment for age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. In October 2009 the company entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon, which is now taking Potentia’s drug candidate through View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision-making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms around the world. Building on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

impacting the mainstream scientific community. Could this NGO model of funding the “right” clinical trials be successful? Could it be duplicated across other scientific areas? What can be learned from NuSI’s... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

that investors were increasingly supporting late stage research with higher probabilities of success, while funding for riskier early stage research was drying up. Should FasterCures raise money and direct it toward early stage breakthrough therapies? Another issue was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne