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In January 2020, FDA published a guidance document entitled “Testing of Retroviral Vector-Based Human Gene Therapy Products for Replication Competent Retrovirus During Product Manufacture and Patient...
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The ultimate goal of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is to protect the public welfare and protect consumers from unsafe products. Regulatory investigators are responsible for enforcing...
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Recent recalls of dozens of lots of the front-line blood pressure and heart medications including valsartan, losartan, and irbesartan are placing the spotlight on impurities in generic drugs. After...
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The implementation of a robust Quality Management System (QMS) is a key success factor for clinical development with the goal of reaching marketing authorization. As important as your QMS is during...
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The involvement of Medical Monitoring (MM) and Data Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMB) in trials has been somewhat unknown to individuals outside of clinical circles. That is, until media attention...
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In early 2020, while COVID-19 was wreaking havoc on public health and safety, the FDA took the unprecedented step of postponing domestic and foreign inspections. The FDA’s risk-based inspection...
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Gene therapy holds the promise of curing severe genetic diseases at the genetic level rather than merely treating the symptoms as is accomplished using conventional small-molecule drug therapies. In...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has laid out a drug development continuum that includes three milestones, or Type B meetings. Earliest is the Pre-IND meeting, the second is the End of Phase 2...
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By the time the drug development process gets to Phase 3, it seems reasonable to assume that the chance of failure is relatively low. After all, the entire early-development process is at least...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...