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Optimizing Clinical Trials: Balancing Patient Experience and Commercial Outcomes with Concierge Services

As therapies for rare diseases evolve, clinical trials increasingly require patient -centric care to ensure a smooth and supportive participant experience. This shift is crucial not only for recruiting but also for retaining trial participants and ensuring that each step of the study is followed...

Clinical Research Solutions

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Corporate Compliance Program: How Does Your Program Measure Up?

At the recent Pharmaceutical Compliance Congress (PCC), Zane Memeger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania stated that one of the key questions that a company should ask about its...

Clinical Research Solutions

What Can Testosterone Gels Teach Us About Abuse-Deterrent Opioids?

For most drugs, the process of developing and obtaining FDA approval of a generic version is simple and well-defined: sponsors must only prove that their product is pharmaceutically equivalent and...

Quality & Compliance

Ready for cGMP Validation: Gate Seven of the Nine Gate Transfer Process

Today, Bob Beall is back with the next gate in the Nine Gate Transfer Process. If you have missed any of the previous steps in this process, you can review them here: Gate 1: Assessment Gate 2:...

Clinical Research Solutions

Rethinking the OTC Monograph System

When the OTC drug review was undertaken in the 1970s, it was deemed the best solution available at the time for efficiently assessing the safety and efficacy of the countless drug products being sold...

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Clinical Research Solutions

To Requalify or to Continuously Monitor, That is the Question

Your manufacturing equipment and processes have been established, qualified and validated; all you have to do now is rake in the profits right? Think again, the process of maintaining the validated...

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Clinical Research Solutions

Words, Words, Words: The Importance of Diction in Regulatory Submissions

In continuation of its series of guidances on electronic submissions, FDA recently released a guidance for receipt dates of electronic submissions which emphasizes one important fact: word choice...

Clinical Research Solutions

Computer System Validation: Resolutions for the New Year

How are you doing with those New Years’ resolutions? Whether or not you’re a resolution maker (or breaker), you can use this time of year to take stock of where things stand, including your validated...

Clinical Research Solutions

Impact of Wavelength Accuracy and Precision on Spectrophotometric Measurements

Impact of Wavelength Accuracy and Precision on Spectrophotometric Measurements: A while back I was involved in a Quality Assurance project reviewing calibration specifications for analytical...

Quality & Compliance

Formulation and Process Development: Gate 6 of the Nine Gate Transfer Process for Moving Production

Today, we are continuing our blog series on the Nine Gate Transfer Process for Moving Production from Site to Site, with Gate 6: Formulation and Process Development. If you have missed any previous...

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Clinical Research Solutions

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...

Clinical Research Solutions

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...

Clinical Research Solutions

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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