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Excelling in the JAPAC Medical Information Landscape: Key Considerations and Insights

As a rapidly expanding market, the Japan and Asia-Pacific (JAPAC) region presents a unique and complex landscape for those who are looking to establish a medical information (MI) function. Having a robust and compliant MI function is crucial to the success of the product lifecycle and demonstrates...

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FDA Announces Availability of Multiple Draft Guidances - Drug Information Update

Today, FDA announced the availability of the following draft guidances for industry, which were prepared under the support of the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for...

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FDA Designates Empirically Based Bayesian Emax Models for Dose Finding as ‘Fit-For-Purpose’

FDA Designates Empirically Based Bayesian Emax Models for Dose Finding as ‘Fit-For-Purpose’: On August 5, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) designated ‘Empirically Based Bayesian Emax...

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FDA - Tobacco Products: Principles for Designing and Conducting Tobacco Product Perception and Intention Studies

FDA - Tobacco Products: Principles for Designing and Conducting Tobacco Product Perception and Intention Studies. August 2022 This final guidance is intended to help applicants (or “you”) design and...

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FDA Issues FY2021 Report on the State of Pharmaceutical Quality

FDA Issues FY2021 Report on the State of Pharmaceutical Quality: The Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) within FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has published the fiscal year 2021...

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EMA: Monkeypox

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is supporting the European Union's (EU) response to the monkeypox outbreak. It is in close contact with medicine developers and its partner organisations in the EU...

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FDA Issues Revised Draft Guidance on Charging for Investigational Drugs Under an Investigational New Drug Application

August 2022 Draft Guidance This guidance provides information for industry, researchers, physicians, institutional review boards (IRBs), and patients about the implementation of FDA’s regulations on...

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FDA Publishes Responses to Good Clinical Practice Inquiries

FDA Publishes Responses to Good Clinical Practice Inquiries: FDA oversees clinical trials to ensure they are designed, conducted, analyzed and reported according to federal law and FDA’s regulations....

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Orphan Designation of ATMPs for Rare Diseases: MPS II Case Study

Orphan Designation of ATMPs for Rare Diseases: MPS II Case Study Many advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) in development in the EU are for rare diseases and conditions. Since the...

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EMA’s Emergency Task Force advises on intradermal use of Imvanex / Jynneos against monkeypox

August 19, 2022 EMA’s Emergency Task Force (ETF) has reviewed data on the monkeypox vaccine Imvanex 1 used as an intradermal injection (given just below the top layer of the skin). The vaccine is...

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Understanding Statistical Intervals: Part 2 - Prediction Intervals

Part 1 of this series discussed confidence intervals. Confidence intervals are the best known of the statistical intervals but they only bound regions associated with population parameters; i.e., the...

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FDA’s Expedited Programs Explained

In order to incentivize the development of therapies (drugs biologics) to fill unmet medical needs for treatment of serious conditions, the FDA has developed various programs to expedite drug...

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A Guide to the Clinical Study Report

What is a Clinical Study Report? A Clinical Study Report (CSR) is a document that describes the methods and results of a clinical study or trial, along with a short discussion of key findings related...

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Medical Information

What are Patient Support Programs?

Patient Support Programs (PSPs) in the pharmaceutical sector represent an array of aimed at supporting patients in initiating therapy and maintaining adherence. PSPs, also known as Patient Assistance...

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How Important is Biostatistics?

The link between statistical methods and healthcare is not a new one, but the volume of available data to inform healthcare decisions and the use of data science in the medical industry has exploded...

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Regulatory Sciences

Formal FDA Meetings for Sponsors or Applications of PDUFA Products

This article has been updated since its original February 28, 2017 publication. Since the introduction of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) VII for fiscal years 2023 - 2027, the FDA...

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