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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...
Senate on FDA: Improving the Speed of INDs, PMAs, and NDAs
On October 21, 2015, Senators Joe Donnelly (D – IN) and Cory Gardner (R – CO) announced two new bills – the Rare Device Innovation Act and the FDA Regulatory Efficiency Act – which the pair will be...
FDA Reopens Comment Period on Proposed Labeling Regulations for “Conventional Foods” & Dietary Supplements
On March 3, 2014, FDA announced a proposed rule that would amend the regulations regarding the labeling of conventional foods and dietary supplements. In this announcement, the Agency sought feedback...
FDA Provides Recommendations on Injectable Drug Dose Labeling
On October 21, 2015, FDA released a draft guidance entitled “Selection of the Appropriate Package Type Terms and Recommendations for Labeling Injectable Medical Products Packaged in Multiple-Dose,...
FDA Warning on ‘Herbal Viagra’ & Lamar Odom’s Collapse
Last week former NBA star Lamar Odom was hospitalized when he was found unconscious in a Las Vegas What is Reload? Reload, also referred to as “herbal Viagra” or a “natural” product, is a...
FDA Provides Recommendations for Using Microbial Vectors in Gene Therapy
On Wednesday, October 13, 2015, FDA released a draft guidance entitled “Recommendations for Microbial Vectors Used for Gene Therapy.” The document provides information and recommendations regarding...
I was recently asked to review a report summarizing the historic performance of a pharmaceutical process. The report consisted of the usual data tables and charts, but one thing caught my eye: data...
FDA Reopens Comment Period on the PDUFA Reauthorization
The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) gives FDA the authority to collect fees from companies that produce certain human drug and biological products. Background PDUFA was enacted in order to...
FDA Faces Challenges in Developing Anxiously Awaited Interchangeability Guidance
FDA’s previous guidance establishing a biosimilar naming convention could be the leading cause of the Agency’s delay in releasing the highly anticipated guidance on interchangeability and labelling...
Can Consumers Handle More Quantitative Info in TV Ads? FDA Plans to Find Out…
FDA wants to know how much of the information presented in television advertisements consumers understandGem, and how much more information they could handle. In an effort to answer these questions,...
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...