Innovative Medical Device for Heart Failure Treatment Delivers Promising Results
Berlin Heals’ innovative implantable C-MIC device delivers encouraging clinical results in the treatment of heart failure.
Restarting by Design: Agile Crisis Management for Rapid Resumption of Cardiovascular Clinical Trials
The entire landscape of hospital-based clinical trials dramatically changed when COVID-19 singlehandedly stopped the global recruitment of ongoing cardiovascular trials. Heart failure clinical trials were already subject to factors such as regional variation in clinical practice, trial implementation, and patient characteristics, which drive event rate and treatment effect size assumptions key to demonstrating clinical benefit. […]
SCIRENT and Virtonomy Announce Joint Efforts to Advance Use of Virtual Patients in Medical Device Clinical Trials
SCIRENT, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) specialized in cardiovascular trials, and Virtonomy, a pioneer in developing data-driven clinical trials using virtual patients, announced today their cooperation on the use of virtual patients in medical device clinical trials. Both companies offer services for the development of medical devices. By working together, valuable time and financial resources […]
An Innovative Approach in Treating Heart Failure
Global medical technology and innovation company, LivaNova PLC, conducts the large medical device study ANTHEM-HFrEF to evaluate whether autonomic regulation therapy will benefit patients with symptomatic heart failure and reduced ejection fraction. The trial is performed by the US-based CRO CCSF, with SCIRENT responsible for managing the European sites. The prospective, international, randomized, controlled clinical […]
SCIRENT Supports Phase IIa Study of BC 007 for the Treatment of Heart Failure
Drug developer Berlin Cures has launched a phase IIa trial for its β1-adrenoceptor autoantibody (β1-AAb) neutralizing ssDNA product BC 007.
COVID-19: Keeping up Trial Safety and Progress
The global COVID-19 pandemic has largely impacted the healthcare system and also the conduct of clinical trials. Many sponsors have had to adapt clinical trial operations to the changing conditions of the pandemic, causing major disruptions in trial conduct. Some trials have had to face the shutdown of trial sites, limited access to regulatory bodies, […]
