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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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The Key to a Stable Supply of Medicines

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a structural weakness in many products’ supply chains. In terms of supply of pharmaceutical products, supply shocks were not mitigated when intermediates or production...

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Lean Principles: A Life Sciences Overview

Today, with the FDA endorsing fewer new treatments, life sciences companies are pressured to develop better therapies while also struggling to control costs and retain their star employees. And while...

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A Guide to Understanding Long Term Follow-Up for Gene Therapy Clinical Trials

When conducting a clinical trial, there are many aspects sponsors need to be aware of with regards to clinical safety, product efficacy, and the ability to bring treatments through the multiple...

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How Should You Respond & React When Employees Become Infected with COVID-19?

On Friday, June 19th, the FDA issued a guidance document explaining what manufacturers of drugs and biological products should do, if and when, employees become infected with COVID-19. The...

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6 Tips for Evaluating Your CMO’s PAI Readiness

The submission of your drug application (NDA, ANDA, BLA, etc.) is an exciting accomplishment, and one of the first major milestones is a pre-approval inspection (PAI) of the manufacturing sites...

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How Opioid Analgesic Drugs are Approved by the FDA

The benefit-risk assessment is the cornerstone of how all drugs are approved. This assessment captures the scientific evidence, uncertainties, policy, and reasoning used by FDA officials to arrive at...

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Conducting a PAI Mock Inspection: How to Execute and Evaluate Your Findings

Did you miss our last blog on PAI Readiness? Catch up here to learn what a PAI is and how to prepare. Congratulations! You conducted a Mock Inspection in preparation for your upcoming Pre-Approval...

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3 Factors to Consider in the Manufacturing Phase for Drug Device Combination Products

Combination products represent an important and growing category of therapeutic and diagnostic products. They come in several configurations and can be composed of any combination of a drug and a...

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Do You Need a Resource Management Team?

In the latest PMI report Pulse of the Profession 2020 (2020), 11.4% of surveyed organizations attribute investment waste to poor project performance. What defines project performance and ultimately...

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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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