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Digital Transformation in Life Sciences: The Importance of Data Strategy
What is Digital Transformation?
While there are many different definitions of digital transformation in life sciences, the core concepts they all have in common are digital technology and creating new, or modifying existing, ways of working. The underlying business driver is that digital...
7 Things to Consider in Medicinal Cannabis Development
Mention the word cannabis and the confusion starts; legal or illegal, nutraceutical or medicinal product, psychoactive or non-psychoactive, clinically significant or not. At the same time, the...
FDA Approves First Therapy for Rare Blood-Clotting Disorder
On Wednesday, February 6th, FDA approved the Cablivi®(caplacizumab-yhdp) injection, the first product approved in combination with plasma exchange and immunosuppression specifically for adults with...
FDA Issues Draft Guidance to Advance Development of Combination Products
On Tuesday, February 5th, FDA published a draft guidance explaining the principles for premarket review of combination products, including how to determine which type of premarket submission is...
FDA Issues Draft Guidance for Marketing Status Notifications
On Wednesday, January 30th, FDA issued a draft guidance which clarifies what information must be shared with the Agency regarding the marketing status of branded and generic drugs. The draft...
Rare Disease Drug Development: FDA Revises Draft Guidance Regarding Common Issues Sponsors Face During Orphan Drug Development
On January 16th, FDA issued a revised draft guidance outlining a number of common issues and challenges that many Sponsors face during the process of developing an orphan product. Though the...
FDA Draft Guidance on Tentatively Approved ANDA Submissions
FDA Draft Guidance on Tentatively Approved ANDA Submissions: On Wednesday, January 16th, the FDA published its first draft guidance since the partial government shutdown took effect on December 22,...
Year in Review: Taking a Look at Pharma's Top News Stories & Events from 2018
From FDA's approval of the first cannabis-based product in the U.S., to the classification of two Apple Watch apps and changes in the Agency's submission requirements related to Sponsor meetings,...
Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Hypothesis Test: Each of us makes important decisions that shape our lives, every day. We try to make the best decisions possible and yet, as the adage goes “all...
On Tuesday, December 11th, FDA made large strides to advance its biosimilar policy framework, including the release of four guidance documents and a proposed rule. Through these guidance documents,...
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...