Regulators in EU, Japan and US take steps to facilitate development of new antibiotics

12 June 2017 - EMA, PMDA and FDA align data requirements and agree on areas of convergence. ...

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Workshop: addressing unmet needs of children with pulmonary arterial hypertension

6 June 2017 - The EMA, the United States FDA and Health Canada are co-organising a workshop to discuss the ...

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The value of using registries to evaluate randomised clinical trial study populations

5 June 2017 - Randomised clinical trials are considered the gold standard of medical research and influence clinical practice, but they ...

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Health policy trials

31 May 2017 - Clinical trials are most commonly associated with drugs and devices, but there are notable examples of trials ...

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Designing clinical trials that accept new arms: an example in metastatic breast cancer

22 May 2017 - The majority of randomised oncology trials are two-arm studies that test the efficacy of new therapies against ...

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How did Vertex win an FDA approval without running a clinical trial?

19 May 2017 - Vertex Pharmaceuticals scored a minor coup this week when the Food and Drug Administration signed off ...

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Clinical trial participants should have a say in new drug pricing

18 May 2017 - People who volunteer to participate in clinical trials of new drugs provide a valuable service to ...

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How patients are changing clinical trials

17 May 2017 - In September, the FDA approved a controversial drug to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare but deadly ...

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Publication and reporting of the results of post-market studies for drugs required by the US FDA, 009 to 2013

15 May 2017 - Advancing scientific knowledge depends on the timely dissemination of research results, including those from medical product research ...

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Efficient trial design — FDA approval of valbenazine for tardive dyskinesia

10 May 2017 - A well-executed development program that addresses both regulatory and clinical requirements is critical for making novel therapeutics ...

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FDA and NIH release final template for clinical trial protocols

2 May 2017 - A little more than a year ago, FDA and NIH announced the availability of a draft template ...

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The failure of solanezumab — How the FDA saved taxpayers billions

3 May 2017 - The failure of solanezumab offers a window into the U.S. drug regulatory system, particularly in the context ...

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Disclosing the conflicts of interest of US Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee members

2 May 2017 -  The agency excludes many individuals because of conflicts of interest; it may, however, determine that the ...

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Reevaluating eligibility criteria — balancing patient protection and participation in oncology trials

19 April 2017 - Specific patient populations are often excluded from oncology trials without clear reasons, which renders results less clearly ...

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Differences in treatment effect size between overall survival and progression-free survival in immunotherapy trials: a meta-epidemiologic study of trials with results posted at ClinicalTrials.gov

4 April 2017 - Tan et al. compared treatment effect sizes between overall survival and progression-free survival in trials of ...

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