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Quality & Compliance
Today I would like to present the third entry in the series discussing the Nine Gate Transfer Process for moving production from site to site: the Gate 3 Transfer Plan. In case you missed them, you...
Clinical Research Solutions
A wise man recently told me that “honor and respect should be given freely, but trust is earned”. Whether it’s in politics, friendships, church, marriages, parenting or even the business world,...
Quality & Compliance
In this, the second entry in the series, I will review Gate 2 of the Nine Gate Transfer Process utilized by ProPharma Group for successful technical transfers. Refer to my first entry for further...
Clinical Research Solutions
On Nov. 13, 2013, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a Proposed Rule in the Federal Register. The title of the Proposed Rule is “Supplemental Applications Proposing Labeling Changes for...
Clinical Research Solutions
In the just issued Johnson & Johnson Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA), the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has, for the second time in less than a year, required that a company maintain a...
Quality & Compliance
Pharmaceutical news today featured another article about a manufacturing plant closure and the layoff of a thousand employees. Demand for pharmaceutical products continues to grow and will continue...
Clinical Research Solutions
Big pharma and their deep pockets have been the focus of enforcement activities for a number of years but in 2013 that tide may be turning. In the past few months, settlements with ISTA...
Clinical Research Solutions
In what for some may be a relatively chaotic run-up to meeting California’s 2015 serialization regulation, it is critical for serialization project managers to assure implementation falls within the...
Clinical Research Solutions
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
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...
Clinical Research Solutions
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...
Clinical Research Solutions
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...
Medical Information
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...
Clinical Research Solutions
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...
Regulatory Sciences
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...