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Patient Support Programs in India: Overcoming Barriers with Healthcare Access

Current Landscape of Medication and Healthcare Access in India

India's healthcare system is a complex landscape with significant disparities in access to medical services and medications. Despite progress over the years, challenges such as high out-of-pocket costs, geographical disparities, and...

Clinical Research Solutions

Understanding Analytical Method Validation

The core of my background was built upon analytical development science for biotechnology companies including Celera and Genentech. It became routine to develop analytical assays to test products...

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Clinical Research Solutions

Problem Solving: What’s the Best Approach?

Those of you in the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries who encounter process and product problems on a regular basis, you likely grimace when one lands in your lap. There is a...

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Quick Guide: cGMP for Phase 1 Investigational Drugs

As Phase I clinical trials mark the first time that an investigational new drug is administered to humans, these studies are subject to appropriate current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) in...

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Tobacco Final Rule: Advice for Manufacturers

On May 10th the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final rule expanding regulation to a range of products that meet the statutory definition of a “tobacco product,” including...

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Does your Quality System stand up to the challenge?

Implementing and maintaining a Quality System is a complex challenge. It is as much as an art as it is a science. A company’s Quality System establishes the framework to manage and maintain...

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Top Takeaways from FDA’s Guidance on Data Integrity

For those of you unaware, the FDA submitted a draft guidance on data integrity for comment in April. This is significant in that the last formal written guidance provided from FDA on this subject...

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Everything you to need to know about Audit Trails

In today’s validated lab environment, knowing the importance of an audit trail in computerized laboratory systems is just one of the integral qualification tasks that the ProPharma’s Computer System...

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FDA Works to Reduce Medical Errors, Part One: Background & Overview of FDA’s Proprietary Naming Guidance

In September 2007, the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA IV) was reauthorized and expanded, broadening and strengthening FDA’s drug safety program. As part of PDUFA’s reauthorization, the Agency...

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The 503b Outsourcing Facility Compliance Dilemma

At the time of this writing, there were 59 registered 503b outsourcing facilities posted on the FDA’s website. All firms that had been inspected were issued FDA inspectional observations in the form...

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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...

Regulatory Sciences

What to Expect During the NDA Review Process

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...

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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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Medical Information

What are Patient Support Programs?

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...

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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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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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