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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...
FDA Issues Final Rule Regarding its Refuse to Accept Procedures for Premarket Tobacco Product Submissions
On Monday, August 8th, the FDA issued a final rule outlining its refuse to accept policy for tobacco product submissions that do not meet the minimum threshold for acceptability for FDA review....
FDA Issues Warning Letter to Chinese API Manufacturer After Lying to the Agency During Inspection
Late last month, FDA released a warning letter that had been sent to Xiamen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., outlining a number of “significant deviations from current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) for...
FDA Establishes Policy for the Regulation of General Wellness Products
On Friday, July 29th, the FDA issued a final guidance document entitled “General Wellness: Policy for Low Risk Devices,” which clarifies FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health’s (CDRH’s)...
FDA Outsourcing Facility Fee Rate: Fiscal Year 2017
According to section 503B(d)(4) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) an outsourcing facility is “a facility at one geographic location or address that is engaged in the compounding of...
FDA has announced its 2017 user fee rates related to the Generic Drug User Fee Program, which includes: Abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs) Prior approval supplements (PASs) to an approved ANDA...
FDA Medical Device User Fee Rates: Fiscal Year 2017
On Friday, July 29th, FDA announced its 2017 Medical Device User Fee rates and payment procedures, which will take effect on October 1, 2016 and remain in place until September 30, 2017. These fees...
The Biosimilar User Fee Act of 2012 (BsUFA) authorizes the FDA to assess and collect user fees for certain activities in connection with biosimilar biological product development (BPD). These user...
FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Rates: Fiscal Year 2017
The Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2012 (PDUFA V) allows FDA to collect user fees for the review of applications concerning human drug and biological products, the establishments where...
FDA Issues Recommendations for the Form and Content of a Unique Device Identifier
On September 24, 2013, the FDA published the UDI Rule, which established a standardized identification system for medical devices used in the United States. Under this rule, the label and packages of...
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...