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Vigilance by Another Name
Do regulations and guidance documents sometimes stagnate your learning progress because of the terminology used? Regulation confusion is a common complaint heard from current and prospective new clients. To understand which rules apply in each situation, and to which parties, we have to first start...
Outsourcing Functions Doesn't Mean You've Outsourced Compliance Obligations
Over the past 20 years, the traditional approach to drug development has expanded to include the outsourcing of a range of testing and manufacturing functions. As a part of their long-term strategic...
Industry Poll: How Can Your GMP Auditing Program Be Most Improved
Recently, ProPharma conducted a poll to quality professionals across the country to understand the challenges that FDA regulated companies face in managing their GMP auditing programs. As depicted in...
The Important Role of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products
Increasing safe and effective patient treatment opportunities for the future is one of the driving forces behind ProPharma Group’s business. It’s also the driving force behind why many individuals...
Human Subject Protection Regulations: Differences Between HHS’ & FDA’s Clinical Trial Rules
On Friday, October 12th, FDA issued a guidance document entitled “Impact of Certain Provisions of the Revised Common Rule on FDA-Regulated Clinical Investigations.” The document aims to help...
Sponsors may transfer any or all of their many tasks and obligations relating to clinical trials to Contract Research Organizations (CROs). This ability to delegate through a Transfer of Regulatory...
New rules, old facilities. How do these two meet? Is it a big black hole or is there light at the end of the tunnel? When you work in an older facility, you are probably acquainted with one-liners...
CBER Provides Sponsors with Policies and Procedures Regarding INTERACT Meetings
On Monday, October 1, FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) issued a document outlining the policies and procedures for scheduling and conducting INitial Targeted Engagement for...
FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Benefit-Risk Determinations for Devices
On Thursday, September 6th, the FDA released a new draft guidance regarding benefit-risk determinations in medical device premarket approval applications (PMAs), De Novo requests, and humanitarian...
Industry Poll: What are the Leading Challenges with GMP Auditing?
In a recent poll conducted by ProPharma Group, the question “What is your biggest GMP auditing challenge?” was posed to Quality professionals in the drug manufacturing industry. The following graph...
Compiling and submitting a New Drug Application (NDA) submission is a complicated and intensive activity. Once you have submitted your application to FDA, you may be curious about what can you expect...
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...
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...
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...
Patient Support Programs (PSPs) in the pharmaceutical sector offer a range of services to help patients start and adhere to their therapies, including Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs), patient...
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...