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CDER conversation: complex innovative trial designs
25 September 2018 - Complex innovative trial designs – including the use of adaptive, Bayesian, and other novel statistical approaches ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Sep 2018
Cost of clinical trials for new drug FDA approval are fraction of total tab
24 September 2018 - Clinical trials that support FDA approvals of new drugs have a median cost of $19 million, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Sep 2018
FDA proposes stiff fines for failing to report clinical trials
20 September 2018 - Pharmaceutical companies could face penalties of up to US$10,000 per day. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Sep 2018
Harvard Professor's attack on pharma's clinical trials is absurd
18 September 2018 - Dr. Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School and the first woman to serve as ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Aug 2018
Choice of control group in randomised trials of cancer medicine: are we testing trivialities?
31 August 2018 - Several trials in cancer medicine over the past 5 years share two common features: first, they were ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Aug 2018
FDA launches new pilot to advance innovative clinical trial designs as part of agency’s broader program to modernise drug development and promote innovation in drugs targeted to unmet needs
29 August 2018 - Today, the U.S. FDA announced a new pilot program (“Complex Innovative Designs Pilot Meeting Program”) in which ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2018
Data enclaves for sharing information derived from clinical and administrative data
28 August 2018 - The promise that big data will transform health care has yet to be fulfilled. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Aug 2018
FDA says sponsors should limit placebo controlled trials in cancer
23 August 2018 - FDA released draft guidance on Thursday to debunk the notion that FDA requires the use of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2018
FDA analysis shows similar success rates for paediatric trials using clinical and surrogate outcomes
21 August 2018 - An analysis by US FDA officials published earlier this month finds that there is a similar ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2018
FDA advances efficient approaches to designing and conducting cancer clinical trials
14 August 2018 - Over the past decade, advances in understanding of cancer biology have led to the development of targeted ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Jun 2018
Bias, operational bias, and generalisability in Phase II/III trials
27 June 2018 - Adaptive clinical trial designs improve the efficiency of the drug development process by allowing treatment decisions to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jun 2018
Finding cancer patients is the pharma industry’s unlikely challenge
20 June 2018 - Doctors will need to test 100 patients to find one candidate. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jun 2018
Clinical trial design and dissemination: comprehensive analysis of clinicaltrials.gov and PubMed data since 2005
6 June 2018 - Well conducted clinical trials are widely regarded as the best source of evidence on the efficacy and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jun 2018
Clinical trial participants’ views of the risks and benefits of data sharing
7 June 2018 - Sharing of participant-level clinical trial data has potential benefits, but concerns about potential harms to research participants ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 May 2018
Multiplicity considerations in clinical trials
31 May 2018 - Making multiple comparisons increases the likelihood that a chance association could be interpreted as causal. ...