Most clinical trials failed to meet U.S. transparency requirements for recently approved drugs

22 July 2021 - In the latest look at clinical trial transparency, a new analysis found that only 26% of ...

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Rival treatments may help justify FDA gamble with Biogen Alzheimer’s drug

18 June 2021 - Data from clinical trials of three experimental Alzheimer’s disease drugs expected to start emerging next year ...

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Core patient reported outcomes in cancer clinical trials

9 June 2021 - This guidance provides recommendations to sponsors for collection of a core set of patient reported clinical outcomes ...

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Adjusting for non-adherence or stopping treatments in randomised clinical trials

25 May 2021 - Randomised clinical trials allocate individuals to different treatments, or, more generally, to interventions and comparators, to determine ...

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Adjusting for covariates in randomised clinical trials for drugs and biological products

20 May 2021 - This guidance represents FDA’s current thinking on adjusting for covariates in the statistical analysis of randomised clinical ...

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FDA launches crowdsourcing challenge to solicit input on research questions to be addressed through FDA's oncologic clinical trial data

18 May 2021 - Today, the U.S. FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence launched the “Send Your Oncology Research Questions to ...

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FDA: flexibility okay for gaps in gene therapy trials

18 May 2021 - The US FDA is not amenable to changing study outcome measures or sample sizes for gene therapy ...

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Public availability of results of ClinicalTrials.gov registered expanded access studies

10 May 2021 - Expanded access is the use of investigational treatments outside of clinical trials. Results of expanded access studies ...

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FDA takes action for failure to submit required clinical trial results information to ClinicalTrials.gov

28 April 2021 - Being transparent about the results of completed clinical trials enables important advances in the development of medical ...

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After admitting mistake, AstraZeneca faces difficult questions about its vaccine

25 November 2020 - Some trial participants only got a partial dose of AstraZeneca’s vaccine. Experts said the company’s spotty disclosures ...

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FDA offers guidance to enhance diversity in clinical trials, encourage inclusivity in medical product development

9 November 2020 - To further promote and protect public health, it is important that people who are in clinical trials ...

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Efficacy trials cost more, take longer for biosimilars than originators

11 October 2020 - Average clinical efficacy testing cost millions of dollars more for Phase 3 biosimilar studies than for ...

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FDA may fine clinical trial sponsors that don’t report data

24 August 2020 - The US FDA has said it will penalise sponsors of clinical trials that do not report ...

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FDA finalises penalties for clinical trial sponsors that don’t share data, but critics say they fall short

18 August 2020 - After a year of deliberation, the FDA released final guidelines for penalising clinical trial sponsors that ...

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Clinical trials of coronavirus drugs are taking longer than expected

14 August 2020 - Antibody trials sponsored by Regeneron and Eli Lilly are off to a slow start because of a ...

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