AmericasDoctor.com & ClinTrials Research Sign Agreement That Will Speed Online Clinical Trials Recruitment.OWINGS MILLS, Md.--(BW HealthWire)--Aug. 11, 1999-- AmericasDoctor.com announced today that it has signed an agreement with ClinTrials Research (CCRO CCRO County of San Diego Code of Regulatory Ordinances ) to recruit candidates for a wide range of clinical research studies. AmericasDoctor.com will be the exclusive provider of this service to ClinTrials Research. The agreement will offer consumers the ability to volunteer and register online for both domestic and international clinical trials. The relationship will help to reduce the time required to recruit candidates for all levels of clinical research. Under the terms of the agreement, AmericasDoctor.com will hold exclusive rights, subject to agreement by ClinTrials Research client(s), to online recruitment for ClinTrials Research for a specified time. During this period, AmericasDoctor.com will have the opportunity to fill clinical trials for other Contract Research Organizations (CRO), pharmaceutical and bio-technical companies. In addition to the ClinTrials Research announcement, AmericasDoctor.com recently announced the formation of a partnership with Massachusetts-based CenterWatch, a division of Thompson Publishing, a leader in the field of clinical trials information, tracking and data management. Today's announcement adds for AmericasDoctor.com and CenterWatch a major research company that is well positioned to recruit, place and monitor those candidates who choose to participate in clinical trials. "We are absolutely delighted to be in partnership with ClinTrials Research," said Scott M. Rifkin, M.D., Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AmericasDoctor.com. "ClinTrials Research has earned a very strong reputation in research circles both here in the U.S. and abroad. They share our commitment to provide consumers with quality service, and they adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. the highest medical ethics medical ethics The moral construct focused on the medical issues of individual Pts and medical practitioners. See Baby Doe, Brouphy, Conran, Jefferson, Kevorkian, Quinlan, Roe v Wade, Webster decision. . We look forward to working with them to create a more convenient and accessible means for consumers to become informed, to register and to volunteer for clinical trials. It is an important part of our business plan to work with clinical trials organizations and pharmaceutical companies to bring Internet efficiencies to their trials efforts." AmericasDoctor.com's competitors include Dr. Koop.com, WebMD, OnHealth and Healtheon. Dr. Jeffrey Collins, Vice President, Product Development for ClinTrials Research, said: "Our new arrangement will allow ClinTrials Research to assist clients in bringing much needed new treatments to patients sooner by shortening the enrollment period for clinical studies, potentially saving lives in the process." About ClinTrials Research ClinTrials Research is a global contract research organization headquartered in Research Triangle Park Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C., with offices in Montreal, Canada; Maidenhead Maidenhead, city (1991 pop. 59,809), Windsor and Maidenhead, S central England, on the Thames River. It is a residential town with brewing and milling industries as well as a resort. The 13th-century stone bridge was rebuilt in the 1770s. , England; Glasgow, Scotland; Brussels, Belgium; Paris, France; Melbourne, Australia; Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest , Israel; Santiago, Chile Santiago, officially Santiago de Chile (Spanish: (helpinfo)), is the capital of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation (Greater Santiago). ; and Milan, Italy. With approximately 1,300 employees, ClinTrials Research provides comprehensive preclinical, clinical and post-marketing research services, including monitoring, data management and biostatistics biostatistics /bio·sta·tis·tics/ (-stah-tis´tiks) biometry. bi·o·sta·tis·tics n. The science of statistics applied to the analysis of biological or medical data. , medical and regulatory services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device clients. About AmericasDoctor.com AmericasDoctor.com, based in Owings Mills, Md., is an Internet-based, health information and resource site. AmericasDoctor.com began operating in September 1998. It is the only medical/health information Internet site to offer private, real-time, one-on-one chats with primary care doctors and other health specialists 24 hours a day, seven days a week at no cost to the consumer. AmericasDoctor.com is an anchor tenant on America Online's health page (Keyword: AMDOC), and launched it World Wide Web site, www.AmericasDoctor.com in March 1998. This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. with the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the Company's actual results in future periods to differ materially from forecasted or expected results. Those risks include, among other things, the competitive environment of the Internet healthcare industry in general, the ability of the Company to secure and maintain key contracts and relationships, technical issues related to the development of the Web site and economic conditions in general. These and other risks are more fully described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Internet Address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. : www.AmericasDoctor.com |
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