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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

Three Solutions to Typical Autoclave Temperature Mapping Conundrums

Temperature Mapping is an intrinsic part of equipment validation. It evaluates the quality and compliant nature of the equipment to ensure the equipment meets the user and regulatory agency’s...

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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Personalized Medicine – How Will the Batch Size Change Our Lives?

Hardly a week goes by without the announcement of a new scientific break-through in science and medicine that promises safer, more efficacious and personalized medicine. Where are all these...

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Lean CSV – How to Reduce Waste and Increase Value

What is lean? Lean is a business system focused on continuously improving processes by reducing the time taken and the waste involved in delivering increasing value to the customer. Customers in this...

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Risk-Based Computer System Validation and Rational Testing

Introduction Risk based approaches to validation of computerized systems have been heavily promoted since the publication of GAMP 5 and ASTM E2500. Yet we continue to see examples of validation...

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Understanding Statistical Intervals Part 1 - Confidence Intervals

Statistical intervals are staples of the quality and validation practitioner’s statistical tool box. Statistical intervals can manifest as plus-or-minus limits on test data, represent a margin of...

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Life Cycle Considerations for High Quality and Regulatory Compliant Software

By way of introduction I have developed, implemented, and validated computer/information systems for longer than I care to admit … they were still using punch cards to program room-sized computers...

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ISO13485: Understanding the Management Review Metrics Scorecard

As discussed in part one and part two of this series, ISO13485 is a regulatory standard whose focus is meeting customer requirements, including regulatory requirements, and maintaining the...

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Wondering Why You Should Evaluate the Effectiveness of Your Corporate Compliance Program?

On May 24, 2013, the Department of Justice announced that ISTA Pharmaceuticals Inc., a subsidiary of Bausch+Lomb, pled guilty to felony charges of conspiracy to introduce a misbranded drug into...

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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...

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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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