Clinical

From a Cold War Discovery to Long COVID

Some scientific discoveries emerge from careful planning. Others arrive by accident as with this clinical study into long COVID.

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Clinical Trials Day 2026

Each year on May 20th, the global research community marks International Clinical Trials Day.

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Minimum Viable QMS for First-in-Human Trials

A practical guide to building a minimum viable QMS for biotech companies preparing first-in-human trials, covering essential SOPs,...

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The Strategic Advantages of Small CROs for Early Clinical Development

Why biotech and medical device start ups gain agility, integrated expertise, and strategic advantage by partnering with small CRO teams.

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The Growing Role of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Study Reports

The world's first human COVID challenge trial has been given the green light

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Increasing Complexity of Clinical Study Reports

The world's first human COVID challenge trial has been given the green light

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2025 in Review: Ten Medical Breakthroughs 

From lithium and Alzheimer's to AI diagnostic reasoning, 2025 delivered remarkable progress. A roundup of the year's most significant...

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Paracelsus and the Origins of Modern Science

How Paracelsus helped shape modern scientific thinking through observation, toxicology, and early chemical medicine.

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Why Stability Testing Can Make or Break Your Clinical Trial Application

Stability data is a common source of regulatory deficiencies in clinical trial applications. A practical guide to ICH requirements and shelf...

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Repurposing drugs for COVID-19 complications

A fascinating science news story hit the headlines in the last 24 hours, that a common over-the-counter ingredient in many cough syrups may...

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Clinical Trials Are Getting More Complex. That Is Why More of Them Are Failing.

Clinical trial complexity has risen over 10% in a decade, driving longer timelines and higher failure rates. A look at what sponsors can do...

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The Evolution of Patient Voice

For much of the twentieth century, patients in clinical research were positioned primarily as subjects of experimentation rather than active...

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Phase 1’s future in the UK

Phase I is the lifeblood or new medicines. The UK’s Phase I representative body,

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Metathesiophobia: from preclinical to clinical development

Having worked in early-stage clinical pharmacology for over 30 years

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Awesome advisory boards

Advisory board meetings are often used to address perceived knowledge gaps and build consensus.

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Clinical Trials Day 2023 – Banging!

Whether it’s a festival, concert or celebratory party, music unites people and pervades

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Rediscovering case reports

Have you seen our latest Insider's Insight on Case Reports? Once a staple of medical journals,

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Top tips for investigator site selection

Investigator sites are very important to clinical studies because they make sure that new drugs are safe and work well.

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Data, data everywhere… far too much to think

Every year, a huge amount of scientific data is released. It's out there, but how do you find it?

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Good Laboratory Practices?

Do you know what Good Laboratory Practice stands for? In nonclinical animal studies

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Mandatory adoption of the European Clinical Trials System approaches

Concerns about readiness of the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Clinical Trials Information System persist as the deadline for...

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iOnctura's Innovation Passport

The clinical stage biotechnology company developing breakthrough therapies for patients suffering with cancer,

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A New Vision for Accelerating Drug Development Through Automated Protocol Writing

Protocol complexity is slowing drug development. Overdrive is Niche's AI platform designed to cut protocol development from weeks to days.

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Exacerbation and risk factors in severe asthma

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways

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20 years ago, today…

When I was younger, the opening lines of the Beatle’s seminal ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ resonated with a sense of...

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical trial conduct

Early in 2020, COVID-19 was spreading rapidly across the globe.

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Insights from the human COVID-19 challenge study

The UK's world-class human challenge study gives us new information about SARS-CoV-2 cases that were mild in 36 healthy young volunteers who...

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How frights create a happy Halloween

Frights create a happy Halloween by providing the thrill of fear in a controlled and safe environment, turning what would normally be...

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Rational Vaccines wins MHRA ILAP passport

Rational Vaccines (RVx) announces MHRA Innovation Licensing and Access Pathway (ILAP) approval for their live attenuated vaccine candidate...

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A simple polymeric small molecule from the 70's versus COVID-19?

There have been hundreds of thousands of deaths from COVID-19

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Will you be frail in old age?

Phenotype-specific omic expression patterns in people with frailty could provid

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Challenge trials: What you need to know

The world's first human COVID challenge trial has been given the green light

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2020 Best of the Best

Here are a few lists of the best of the best over the last 12 months.

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Nap Attack!

The US Army has a new secret weapon – napping.

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I love it when a plan...

In this case the plan is a paradigm shift in the way we will manage

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Deep Breath: Issue #8

All of our core studies have now completed their clinical phase

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Milestones

As a jobbing scientist you rarely spend your whole career working on the same project.

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5 tips for Star Wars Day

May 4 is often known as ‘Star Wars Day’. It is jokingly said

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Clinical pharmacologists prepare for change

The latest issue of Journal Frontiers in Pharmacology has just published

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The future for clinical studies

Attend any research meeting, conference or clinical congress

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Our infinite monkey cage

We all have a responsibility to encourage young people to study science

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Science won’t save medicine

Last night saw a collection of the UK’s great and the good in clinical pharmacology

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Multimodal intervention in functionally impaired older people

Our publication on effectiveness of a multimodal intervention

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The Investigator’s Brochure: Multifaceted and Multidisciplinary

Metathesiophobia: from Preclinical to Clinical Development

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Mightier than the sword… and the laptop and the smartphone…

Research shows handwriting notes may improve focus and memory compared with typing. Discover why the pen may still outperform the laptop.

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Expanded ‘No-Deal’ Brexit preparations for pharmaceuticals and medical devices

However you may feel about the way political leaders have turned Brexit

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Association for Human Pharmacology in the Pharmaceutical Industry

The proceedings of the Association for Human Pharmacology in the Pharmaceutical Industry (AHPPI)

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Bigger on the inside

I am shamelessly referencing our Insider’s Insights (IIs) to Dr Who’s TARDIS – our latest edition

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Top 5 reasons why bigger isn’t (always) better

The largest pharmaceutical companies not surprisingly rely on the largest contract research organizations

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Deep Breath: Issue #6

It was encouraging to see so many partners at the 2017 General Assembly meeting last December

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Titanic clinical protocols

Experience at Niche has taught us that clinical study protocols are born in the white-hot fire

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Site selection - getting it right

High functioning investigator sites are essential to the delivery

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Can we stop ageing?

According to many observers we are standing on the precipice

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Tantalising telomeres

Many scientists believe that we have reached the end of the life-expectancy revolution

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Deep Breath Issue #4

Welcome to the latest issue of the Refractory Asthma Stratification Programme (RASP-UK)

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Age 40 years in 5 minutes...

With age comes wisdom, however the physical side of ageing

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Asthma UK discusses RASP-UK

In its recent white paper on severe asthma, The Severe Asthma Report 2017

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Deep Breath: Issue #3

Download the third issue of the Refractory Asthma Stratification

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Frailomic and MID-Frail (Newsletter #9)

Read the latest newsletter here [1]. In this edition

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Deep Breath: Issue #2

Welcome to the second issue of the Refractory Asthma Stratification

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Women in Clinical Trials

Explore how women’s exclusion from clinical trials shaped medicine and why sex-specific data is essential for precision healthcare today.

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Deep Breath: Issue #1

Deep Breath is the official newsletter of the UKs Refactory Asthma

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A Visionary Role of Patient Involvement in RASP UK

There is a short summary of a scientific paper called an abstract

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Issue #9 of our Insider's Insights

We've been sharing you our Insider's Insights with you for 2 years now.

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MID-Frail Newsletter #7

Metathesiophobia: from Preclinical to Clinical Development

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Planning your clinical trial: Avoidable mistakes

Clinical trials are not cheap to conduct, and with data integrity

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A new Medical Research Council-funded asthma research programme

Our group of academic and industry partners won a big MRC grant yesterday

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Frailomic newsletter #4

In the UK we have a saying that you wait hours for a bus and then two come along at once.

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MID-Frail newsletter #6

This essential reading provides readers with a round-up of news on the latest events

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Third Frailomic consortium newsletter

You can now download our latest newsletter, detailing how 2014

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Sarcoidosis: Epidemiological and aetiological links

Our publication on sarcoidosis, a multisystem inflammatory disease

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On your marks… we’re about to SPRINTT

Frailty has a dramatic impact on the quality of life of many elderly people

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Project Tracking: A valued tool for multiple multidisciplinary projects

If you're managing a project, it's important to stay informed about work progress

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The fifth MID-Frail newsletter

The New Year started excellently for MID-Frail with the first patients

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Beyond the Protocol: MID-Frail Embodies Best Practice in Publication Planning

The landscape of diabetes care is shifting as the global population ages.

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How to Identify Predatory Journals in Academic Publishing

10 warning signs of predatory journals and how researchers can protect their work from unethical publishers and poor peer review practices.

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The fourth MID-Frail newsletter

We are pleased to bring you the latest edition of the MID-Frail newsletter

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New therapies in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus

Our publication on new therapies in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus

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New MID-Frail Consortium Newsletter

2012 has been a very busy year for the MID-Frail partners and the study consortium

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Grünenthal, maker of thalidomide, issues an apology after 50 years

If you have been involved in the pharmaceutical industry for any length

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New MID-Frail Consortium Newsletter #2

MID‐Frail News returns with this Special Issue to report on the project development

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MID-Frail Consortium Newsletter #1

Welcome to the first issue of the MID‐Frail newsletter

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MID-Frail awarded 7th Framework approval

Niche Science & Technology Ltd. are leading the team today awarded a Euro 7.5M

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