Beware the Imposter: Predatory Conferences Lure the Unsuspecting

Ellen Baum, PhD, Janssen Research & Development, LLC Predatory conferences are “for-profit, low-quality academic meetings that exploit researchers’ need to share and publish their research” (1) and have been variously described as “questionable” (2), “fraudulent,...

Publication Planning: Balancing Speed vs Story Flow

Karen King, PhD, ISMPP CMPPTM, Jason Gardner, PhD, ISMPP CMPPTM, Complete Medical Communications, a McCann Health Company, UK In the evolving landscape of medical publications, the question of whether to release study data as soon as they are available or to plan...

A New Age of Transparency: Do We Fully Understand the Implications?

Antonia Panayi, BSc, MSc, PhD, ISMPP CMPPTM, Slavka Baronikova, BSc, MSc, PhD, ISMPP CMPPTM, Shire International GmbH Over the last few years, requirements for clinical trial transparency and data reporting have become more extensive to help patients and health care...