Emissary Presents at Southwest Equity Capital Summit

AUSTIN, Texas -- Emissary Inc. today announced that it will participate in the 2002 Southwest Equity Capital Summit organized by the Capital Network October 2-3 in Richardson, Texas. Steven Mayo, founder and CEO of Emissary, will present the company's plans to streamline drug and medical device research studies with a new Web-based software initiative.

Clinical Trial Accrual Hampered by Many Factors

In recent years, cancer patients are more knowledgeable and willing to participate in clinical trials, but issues pertaining to physician enthusiasm, design requirements, and enrollment procedures now pose large barriers to patient accrual, finds two new Cancer studies. Since previous research has predominantly focused on patient and physician perspectives, Canadian researchers interviewed clinical research associates (CRAs), whose work spans all stages of clinical trials, to gain new insight into the factors influencing enrollment. The CEO of an Austin, Texas-based contract research organization (CRO), which designs trials and staffs CRAs, told the Watch (9/24/02) that the strict participation guidelines for oncology-related clinical trials make meeting accrual goals for experimental cancer therapies particularly difficult.