Key design considerations for adaptive clinical trials: a primer for clinicians

8 March 2018 - This article reviews important considerations for researchers who are designing adaptive clinical trials.  ...

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Balancing safety and innovation for cell-based regenerative medicine

8 March 2018 - Regenerative medicine is a field that involves replacing, engineering, or regenerating human cells, tissues, or organs to ...

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Guided by the research design: choosing the right statistical test

5 March 2018 - Choosing the right statistical test or model can be baffling for researchers, and if it is not ...

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Europe follows FDA with plans to help early Alzheimer's drugs

28 February 2018 - European regulators are following in the footsteps of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with plans ...

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Drug makers lobby for antibiotic incentives in pandemic preparedness bill

27 February 2018 - A big legislative package due for renewal later this year could include hundreds of millions of ...

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Statement from FDA Commissioner on FDA’s ongoing efforts to help improve effectiveness of influenza vaccines

26 February 2018 - The current influenza season has been especially difficult, causing widespread illness that has affected all fifty ...

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Contribution of NIH funding to new drug approvals 2010–2016

12 February 2018 - This report shows that NIH funding contributed to published research associated with every one of the 210 ...

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Developing anti-cancer drugs in orphan molecular entities — a paradigm under construction

22 February 2018 - Genomic characterisation of cancers has shown that some oncogenic alterations occur at very low frequency and are ...

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RMAT vs. breakthrough vs. fast track: companies seek clarity on FDA draft guidance

19 February 2018 - Industry groups BIO, the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine and the International Society for Cellular Therapy, as well ...

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FDA opens new path for Alzheimer's treatments

16 February 2018 - Draft guidance comes after Merck failure, years of others. ...

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Statement from FDA Commissioner on advancing the development of novel treatments for neurological conditions; part of broader effort on modernizing FDA’s new drug review programs

15 February 2018 - New medical breakthroughs are altering how diseases are treated in ways that seemed unimaginable just a ...

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The stepped-wedge clinical trial

13 February 2018 - Evaluation by rolling deployment. ...

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Strengthened guidance on follow-up and risk management for ATMP developers

2 February 2018 - Guideline to streamline procedures and better address the specific requirements of ATMP developers published for consultation ...

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How to better apply the paediatric legislation to boost development of medicines for children

31 January 2018 - EMA and European Commission invite stakeholders to register for joint workshop and support development of an ...

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The impact of parallel regulatory-HTA scientific advice on clinical development. Assessing the uptake of regulatory and HTA recommendations.

30 January 2018 - The “Parallel regulatory-HTA scientific advice” procedure allows manufacturers to receive simultaneous feedback from both EU regulators and ...

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