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Five Effective Panelist Recruiting Strategies Effective panelist-recruiting strategies are key to enrolling and completing clinical trials on time.  The strategies each site uses will largely depend on a study’s eligibility criteria, resources available (money,...

Earn Extra Money Everyone wants to make a little extra money. Participating on a study is an easy way to make some extra money to help supplement your income or pay off debt. Our studies pay anywhere from $75 to $1000. Contribute to Research and Give your Opinion We...

With the ethnically and racially diverse subject population available at Stephens’ US testing facilities in Texas and Arizona, why would some companies choose to test their cosmetic and consumer-care products in other countries? The answers are as diverse as the...

Blue light is also called high-energy visible light (HEV), as it has the shortest wavelength in the visible light spectrum and thus the highest energy. We are exposed to blue light from both natural sunlight and artificial sources such as fluorescent lights, computer...

How to substantiate claims for cosmetic and consumer care products

Clinical research imaging has become an important tool in documenting a product or treatments performance in clinical trials.  It can serve as another line of evidence to support claims and study data, and is useful in communicating results from the study, especially...

Stephens has redesigned our imaging system to produce higher quality and more consistent images for your clinical trials.  With the new imaging system, the panelist remains still and the camera rotates around a track.  Therefore, throughout the series of photographs,...