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FDA Designates Empirically Based Bayesian Emax Models for Dose Finding as ‘Fit-For-Purpose’

FDA Designates Empirically Based Bayesian Emax Models for Dose Finding as ‘Fit-For-Purpose’: On August 5, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) designated ‘Empirically Based Bayesian Emax...

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FDA Issues FY2021 Report on the State of Pharmaceutical Quality

FDA Issues FY2021 Report on the State of Pharmaceutical Quality: The Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) within FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has published the fiscal year 2021...

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FDA Issues Revised Draft Guidance on Charging for Investigational Drugs Under an Investigational New Drug Application

August 2022 Draft Guidance This guidance provides information for industry, researchers, physicians, institutional review boards (IRBs), and patients about the implementation of FDA’s regulations on...

FDA Publishes Responses to Good Clinical Practice Inquiries

FDA Publishes Responses to Good Clinical Practice Inquiries: FDA oversees clinical trials to ensure they are designed, conducted, analyzed and reported according to federal law and FDA’s regulations....

Hydrogen Peroxide-Based Contact Lens Care Products: Consumer Labeling Recommendations - Premarket Notification (510(k)) Submissions

Draft Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff AUGUST 2022 FDA is issuing this draft guidance to provide labeling recommendations for hydrogen peroxide-based contact lens care...

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Replacement Reagent and Instrument Family Policy for In Vitro Diagnostic Devices

GUIDANCE DOCUMENT - Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff AUGUST 2022 In 2003, FDA issued an updated guidance on the "Replacement Reagent and Instrument Family Policy" for in vitro diagnostic (IVD)...

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FDA Regional Implementation Guide for E2B(R3) Electronic Transmission of Individual Case Safety Reports for Drug and Biological Products

This technical specifications document is to assist interested parties in electronically submitting individual case safety reports (ICSRs) (and ICSR attachments) to the Center for Drug Evaluation and...

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EMA: List of centrally authorised products requiring a notification of a change for update of annexes

August 2022 EMA Regulatory and Procedural Guideline Parallel distributors are only required to inform the EMA of changes to the labelling or leaflet related to any update of the annexes of marketing...

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FDA publishes product-specific guidances to facilitate generic drug development

Today, FDA published a new batch of product-specific guidances (PSGs). PSGs provide recommendations for developing generic drugs and generating the evidence needed to support abbreviated new drug...

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FDA’s Expedited Programs Explained

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...

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...

A Guide to the Clinical Study Report

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...

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How Important is Biostatistics?

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...

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What are Patient Support Programs?

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...

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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...

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