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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...
Importation of Prescription Drugs Final Rule Questions and Answers
Small Entity Compliance Guide on Final Rule on Importation of Prescription Drugs from Canada Guidance for Industry Today, FDA issued a Small Entity Compliance Guide to help small businesses comply...
EMA post-authorisation procedural advice for users of the centralised procedure
This guidance document addresses a number of questions which marketing authorisation holders (MAHs) may have on post-authorisation procedures. It provides an overview of the Agency’s position on...
Why Partner with a CRO that has In-House DCT Capabilities?
When you need to outsource your clinical trials and decentralized visits, it can be beneficial to select a single provider that can do both. There are many synergies that come from using a single...
IRIS guide for applicants (How to create and submit scientific applications, for industry and individual applicants)
This guide has been produced to show applicants how to use the IRIS platform to prepare and submit an application and/or data for a scientific procedure (orphan designation application, scientific...
FDA Draft Guidance: Risk Management Plans to Mitigate the Potential for Drug Shortages
Industry Draft Guidance Drug shortages pose a significant public health threat as they can delay, and in some cases, even deny critically needed care for patients. Over the past decade, the FDA’s...
FDA Issues Final Guidance on Safety Considerations for Container Labels and Carton Labeling Design to Minimize Medication Errors
FDA has issued the final guidance titled “Safety Considerations for Container Labels and Carton Labeling Design to Minimize Medication Errors.” The recommendations for prescription drug and...
EMA Regulatory and procedural guideline: Public consultation concerning the physical attendance and the location of personal residency of the qualified person
The COVID-19 pandemic required manufacturers and importers of medicinal products and regulatory authorities to operate under business continuity mode, impacting the standard way of working. As a...
FDA Releases Draft Guidance for Industry on Clinical Pharmacology Considerations for Human Radiolabeled Mass Balance Studies
The FDA’s Office of Clinical Pharmacology within the Office of Translational Sciences released a new draft guidance document that, for the first time, clearly addresses the FDA’s recommendations and...
Investigating Out-of-Specification (OOS) Test Results for Pharmaceutical Production - Level 2 revision
Guidance for Industry May 2022 Today, FDA is announcing revisions to the 2006 guidance “Investigating Out-of-Specification (OOS) Test Results for Pharmaceutical Production.” Specifically, this...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...