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ANDA FDA

July 29, 2022

FDA announces guidance for industry titled Changes to Disposable Manufacturing Materials: Questions and Answers

Today, FDA is announcing the availability of a level 2 guidance for industry titled, Changes to Disposable Manufacturing Materials: Questions and Answers. FDA receives questions about the limited...

FDA North America

July 21, 2022

Human Prescription Drug and Biological Products--Labeling for Dosing Based on Weight or Body Surface Area for Ready-to-Use Containers--“Dose Banding”

Draft Guidance July 2022 This guidance is intended to assist applicants in incorporating dose banding information into the drug labeling provided in a new drug application (NDA) submitted under the...

ANDA FDA

June 27, 2022

How to Interpret FDA’s Final Guidance - “Assessing the Effects of Food on Drugs in INDs and NDAs - Clinical Pharmacology Considerations”

On June 23, 2022, The FDA issued the final version of its Guidance for Industry titled “Assessing the Effects of Food on Drugs in INDs and NDAs - Clinical Pharmacology Considerations”. The most...

FDA NDA

May 18, 2022

FDA Releases Draft Guidance for Industry on Clinical Pharmacology Considerations for Human Radiolabeled Mass Balance Studies

The FDA’s Office of Clinical Pharmacology within the Office of Translational Sciences released a new draft guidance document that, for the first time, clearly addresses the FDA’s recommendations and...

FDA North America

May 9, 2022

FDA announces draft guidance on Benefit-Risk Considerations for Product Quality Assessments

Today, FDA announced the availability of a draft guidance for industry, Benefit-Risk Considerations for Product Quality Assessments. This guidance describes the benefit-risk principles applied by FDA...

ANDA FDA

April 27, 2022

Providing Submissions in Electronic Format — Postmarketing Safety Reports

GUIDANCE DOCUMENT April 2022 This guidance is one in a series of guidance documents intended to assist industry when making certain regulatory submissions in electronic format to FDA’s Center for...

CMC NDA

February 15, 2022

CMC Regulatory Dossier Compliance: A GMP Requirement

Maintaining compliance in the dynamic regulatory Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC field can be quite a challenge. A CMC regulatory dossier compliance assessment is a critical component and...

ANDA NDA

February 27, 2018

Drug Development: The Key to Success from Concept to Commercialization

Drug Development: The Key to Success from Concept to Commercialization: Congratulations!  You have a lead candidate formulation for your new drug.  You might be thinking to yourself, “okay, now...

ANDA NDA

May 14, 2015

FDA Sets A Deadline For Electronic Submission Of Drug Applications

In a final guidance published in the Federal Register on May 5, FDA laid out the rules and specifications for providing regulatory submissions in electronic format. Perhaps more important than the...

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Aug 15, 2013 12:00:00 AM

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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Mar 29, 2022 12:00:00 AM

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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Dec 22, 2020 12:00:00 AM

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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Dec 8, 2020 12:00:00 AM

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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Feb 28, 2017 12:00:00 AM

Formal Meetings Between the FDA & Sponsors or Applicants of PDUFA Products

On March 10, 2015, the FDA published a draft guidance, providing a number of recommendations regarding the conduct of formal meetings between the FDA and Sponsors. These meetings are intended to...

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Oct 12, 2022 12:00:00 AM

Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) VII and Type D Meetings: A New Mechanism for Interacting with FDA

For those who have been awaiting Congressional reauthorization of PDUFA, the wait is over. On September 30, 2022, the President signed into law the FDA User Fee Reauthorization Act of 2022. We...

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