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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...
On Friday, July 27th, FDA released a notice with updated generic drug user fee rates for fiscal year 2019. Under GDUFA II, user fees should total $493,600,000 each year, adjusted for inflation. The...
FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Nonprescription Drugs
On Tuesday, July 17th, FDA released a new draft guidance entitled “Innovative Approaches for Nonprescription Drug Products.” The guidance discusses two different approaches for making nonprescription...
On Friday, July 13th, FDA approved TPOXX (tecovirimat) for the treatment of smallpox. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), smallpox was eradicated in 1980; however, since eradication...
FDA Announces Voluntary Recall of Drugs Containing Valsartan
On Friday, July 13th, FDA announced the voluntary recall of several drugs containing the active ingredient valsartan. Valsartan is often used to treat serious medical conditions such as high blood...
FDA Releases Six Draft Guidances Related to Gene Therapy
On Wednesday, July 11th, FDA released six draft guidances to aid in the development of new gene therapies. Of the six guidances, three were disease specific and three were related to manufacturing....
Implementing a Risk-Based Supplier Management Program
According to recent FDA updates on the implementation of the Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA), nearly 40 percent of finished drugs are being imported, and nearly 80 percent of active ingredients,...
FDA Issues Untitled Letter to Pfizer for False or Misleading Video
On June 19th, FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) sent an untitled letter to Pfizer Inc. regarding an online direct-to-consumer (DTC) video featuring Estring® (estradiol vaginal ring)....
FDA Approves First Marijuana-Derived Drug for the Treatment of Epilepsy
On Monday, June 25th, FDA approved GW Pharmaceuticals’ Epidiolex (cannabidiol) for the treatment of two rare and severe forms of epilepsy. Epidiolex is the first FDA-approved drug that contains a...
FDA Updates Guidance on User Fee Waivers, Reductions, & Refunds
On Wednesday, June 20th, FDA announced the availability of a draft guidance entitled "Prescription Drug User Fee Waivers, Reductions, and Refunds for Drug and Biological Products." The guidance is an...
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...