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Advances in AI for Digital Transformation: Insights from BioIT World 2025

While AI has been topping the agenda at most industry events for several years now, the progression from futuristic vision to nearly commodity capability was particularly apparent at BioIT World 2025. With four conference tracks focused on different types of AI and specialist exhibitors such as...

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Should Data Integrity Detection be a Part of Routine cGMP Training Programs?

The FDA’s focus on data integrity in recent years has proven that it remains an industry issue. The focus has resulted in significantly increased issuance rates of 483 observations, warning letters,...

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Data Integrity 101: Is your data compliant?

Data integrity has recently been in the agency spotlight. In part because of the draft data integrity guidance issued April 2016, but primarily due to an increased number of inspection findings...

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Clinical Quality Systems & the Outsourced Model

The landscape of clinical trials is evolving. The changes that are happening are due to the increased number of FDA-regulated trials, as well as a rise in the complexity of clinical protocols. As...

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FDA’s Most Frequent 483 Observations for 2016: A Reflection of Industry’s Compliance

At the beginning of each year, the US FDA posts the previous year’s Form 483 observation metrics issued by each product center. Image Source: FDA I find that reviewing these metrics provides a...

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Senators work to Reform FDA’s Medical Device Inspection Process with Bipartisan Bill

On Wednesday, February 15th, Senators Michael Bennet (D – CO) and Johnny Isakson (R – GA) introduced a bill to improve FDA’s medical device inspection process. If passed, the bill would amend the...

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The Benefits of Process Characterization in Process Development

The desire for a robust and repeatable manufacturing process is shared by every organization that has a therapy or product in development and the only way to demonstrate that this desired state has...

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#2: Labeling for Human Prescription Drug and Biological Products – Implementing the PLR Content and Format Requirements

In 2013, the FDA released a guidance entitled “Labeling for Human Prescription Drug and Biological Products – Implementing the PLR Content and Format Requirements.” This guidance was finalized after...

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Phase-Appropriate Development and Application of Quality Systems in the Drug Development Process

Phase-Appropriate Development and Application of Quality Systems in the Drug Development Process: The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) recently published a revised version of Technical Report No....

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#3: Nonclinical Safety Evaluation of Reformulated Drug Products and Products Intended for Administration by an Alternate Route

In October 2015, the FDA published a guidance document which outlines its recommendations regarding “the nonclinical evaluation of previously approved drug substances when a new formulation or a new...

Regulatory Sciences

What to Expect During the NDA Review Process

Compiling and submitting a New Drug Application (NDA) submission is a complicated and intensive activity. Once you have submitted your application to FDA, you may be curious about what can you expect...

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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...

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What are Patient Support Programs?

Patient Support Programs (PSPs)  in the pharmaceutical sector offer a range of services to help patients start and adhere to their therapies, including Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs), patient...

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Regulatory Sciences

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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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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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...

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