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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 Announces an Updated Draft of Formal Dispute Resolution Guidance
In February 2000, FDA released a draft guidance entitled “Formal Dispute Resolution: Appeals Above the Division Level” which established procedures for resolving scientific and procedural disputes...
FDA Reviews First NDA for Digital Medicine Product
FDA has accepted for review the first NDA for a “digital” medicine product. The product, which is produced by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Proteus Digital Health, is the first-ever medication...
House of Representatives Wants More Info from FDA on the Safety of Blood Thinners
Following the release of an analytical report published by ProPublica, the House of Representatives is seeking more information regarding the safety of Coumadin, a widely-prescribed blood thinner,...
The FDA’s announcement this summer that it would take enforcement action against several unapproved formulations of ear drops provides a great opportunity for a pharmaceutical company that would like...
FDA Guidance: Design & Analysis of Shedding Studies During Preclinical & Clinical Development
Recently, FDA published a guidance (entitled “Design and Analysis of Shedding Studies for Virus or Bacteria-Based Gene Therapy and Oncolytic Products”) providing sponsors with recommendations on how...
Kim Kardashian Cleans Up Social Media Mess for Duchesnay
As we noted a few weeks ago, Duchesnay, the company that manufactures prescription morning sickness medication Diclegis, received a warning letter from FDA after Kim Kardashian posted a "selfie" on...
Last week, FDA announced the highly anticipated guidance, along with a proposed rule, which will establish a naming convention for biological products, including both related and biosimilar products....
Report Says FDA Significantly Reduced Medical Device Review Times
Earlier this year, FDA published a report announcing that the Agency’s device program has shown “a pattern of markedly improved performance.” Over the past five years, FDA has been working to improve...
FDA Extends Comment Period For Its “Request for Quality Metrics” Draft Guidance
Last month, FDA published a draft guidance titled “Request for Quality Metrics,” which outlined the ways in which it intends to collect and use quality metrics. The guidance states that the data will...
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...