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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FDA Extends Comment Period for Emerging Medical Device Signals Draft Guidance
On December 31, 2015, FDA released a draft guidance entitled “Public Notification of Emerging Postmarket Medical Device Signals (‘Emerging Signals’),” which stated its plans to take a more aggressive...
Sanders Places Hold on Obama’s Nominee for FDA Commissioner
In September 2015, President Obama nominated Robert Califf, MD, a world renowned cardiologist and clinical trial expert, to serve as the next FDA Commissioner. Following his nomination, Dr. Califf...
FDA's CDER Announces New & Revised Draft Guidances it Plans to Publish in 2016
On Friday, January 22, FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) published its 2016 guidance agenda. The guidance agenda is published on an annual basis and announces the draft guidances...
Supplier Qualification in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA), was signed into law on July 9, 2012. This law significantly expanded the FDA’s authority and strengthened its ability to safeguard...
Earlier this month, FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) published its annual guidance agenda. CBER’s list is published in addition to the FDA’s agency-wide Annual Guidance...
FDA Issues Warning Letter to Chinese API Manufacturer for Data Manipulation Violations
On December 31, 2015, the FDA issued a Warning Letter to Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturer, citing the company for serious data...
A Closer Look at the Reasons Indian API Manufacturers are Racking-Up FDA Violations
Over the past few years, we have seen a drastic upsurge in the amount of FDA activity involving Indian Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturers. The Pharmaceutical Industry & FDA’s...
Cybersecurity in Medical Devices Part 1: Networked Medical Devices & Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
On January 15, 2016, FDA published a draft guidance providing medical device manufacturers with a number of recommendations to protect patients from cybersecurity vulnerabilities in their devices....
Cybersecurity in Medical Devices Part 2: General Principles
Earlier we provided you with details on FDA's recent draft guidance on cybersecurity in medical devices. Were you left wanting more? Well if you were wishing for additional information on the...
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...