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In the case of a devastating disease, the FDA weighs an experimental drug’s muddled data and a desperate need
14 August 2023 - Emma Albee knows the experimental drug she takes is not a cure. It won’t allow her ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Sep 2022
The FDA needs to be more flexible in assessing treatments for rare diseases, like the one that seemed to help my son
7 September 2022 - Every time I read about clinical trials testing possible treatments for rare diseases, I think of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Aug 2022
Reproducibility of real world evidence studies using clinical practice data to inform regulatory and coverage decisions
31 August 2022 - Studies that generate real world evidence on the effects of medical products through analysis of digital data ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Aug 2022
Stability of changes in health status: next step in comprehensively assessing patient reported outcomes
18 August 2022 - Chronic diseases can impair patients’ health status due to symptoms, functional limitations, and impaired quality of life. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jun 2022
From FDA to MHRA: are drug regulators for hire?
29.June 2022 - Patients and doctors expect drug regulators to provide an unbiased, rigorous assessment of investigational medicines before they hit ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jun 2022
Expediency versus efficacy: re-examining the FDA’s accelerated drug approval process
23 June 2022 - It was precisely 30 years ago, in 1992, that the FDA established the accelerated approval program ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jun 2022
FDA explains when it will rescind breakthrough designations
23 June 2022 - The US FDA on Thursday released draft guidance explaining its thought process for rescinding breakthrough therapy ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jun 2022
The FDA’s Pazdur on accelerated approval, single-arm studies and his own future
4 June 2022 - When cancer drugs granted accelerated approval in the U.S. later turn out not to benefit patients, the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2022
Real world evidence - where are we now?
4 May 2022 - Notwithstanding on-going confusion over the concepts of “real-world data” and “real-world evidence” in 2022, more than 5 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2022
Will the shadow of Aduhelm cloud FDA’s decision-making on an ALS therapy?
21 April 2022 - On March 30, an FDA advisory panel voted 6 to 4 against recommending approval of what ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Apr 2022
FDA shuts out its own experts in authorising another vaccine booster
3 April 2022 - Decisions like this only reinforce the perception that Covid policy is driven by groupthink and politics. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Sep 2021
U.S. Food and Drug Administration reasoning in approval decisions when efficacy evidence is borderline (2013–2018)
21 September 2021 - The U.S. FDA has substantial flexibility in its approval criteria in the context of life-threatening disease and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Aug 2021
Real world outcomes associated with new cancer medicines approved by the FDA and EMA: a retrospective cohort study
August 2021 - Real world data studies are increasingly used to support regulatory approvals, reimbursement decisions, and changes in clinical practice ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Aug 2021
From Our Perspective: FDA approval demonstrates the role of real world evidence in regulatory decision-making on drug effectiveness
4 August 2021 - In this CDER From Our Perspective, experts discuss the recent FDA approval of Prograf (tacrolimus) in combination ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jul 2021
Patient advocacy organisations and FDA drug approval: lessons from Aduhelm
23 July 2021 - In the wake of last month’s controversial FDA approval of Biogen’s Aduhelm, Alzheimer’s Association CEO Harry ...