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FDA is working to bridge gaps and meet needs for rare disease product development
28 February 2019 - There are approximately 7,000 rare diseases affecting an estimated 30 million people in the United States. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Mar 2019
Moving upstream in anti-cancer drug development
4 March 2019 - The development of oncology drugs traditionally begins by studying them in heavily pretreated patients, and then working ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Mar 2019
Drug companies and doctors battle over the future of faecal transplants
3 March 2019 - As pharmaceutical companies seek to profit from the curative wonders of human faeces, doctors worry about new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Mar 2019
Treatment effects in multi-centre randomised clinical trials
1 March 2019 - It is common for treatments to be evaluated in clinical trials that involve many sites or centres, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Feb 2019
Under representation of elderly in clinical trials: an analysis of the initial approval documents in the FDA database
25 February 2019 - A cross‐sectional, structured review of publicly available initial approval documents of FDA approved drugs was performed. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jan 2019
Toward an effective innovation agenda
23 January 2019 - Digital technologies have transformed the U.S. and global economies, offering tremendous benefits to consumers and financial success ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2019
Modernising clinical trials for patients with cancer
23 January 2019 - Clinical trials involve evaluating and validating new therapies in humans and represent the fundamental means of making ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2019
Random-effects meta-analysis: summarising evidence with caveats
22 January 2019 - Questions involving medical therapies are often studied more than once. For example, numerous clinical trials have been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jan 2019
FDA updates guidance on development of rare disease therapies
17 January 2019 - The FDA has revised its draft guidance for developing rare disease treatments to include the use ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2019
Challenges of non-intention-to-treat analyses
15 January 2019 - Over the past 5 decades, the randomised clinical trial has become the gold standard for evaluation ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jan 2019
Why pharmaceutical companies are on a shopping binge
14 January 2019 - With the cost of R&D so high, it may make sense to spend money on a competitor. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Dec 2018
FDA advances new scientific framework to promote greater predictability, efficiency in oncology drug development
19 December 2018 - Today, the U.S. FDA issued guidance, Clinical Trial Endpoints for the Approval of Cancer Drugs and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Dec 2018
Statement from FDA Commissioner and Director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on efforts to modernise generic drug labels while maintaining the efficiency of generic development
13 December 2018 - Protecting patient safety is at the core of the FDA’s mission. All FDA-approved drugs have benefits and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Dec 2018
FDA takes aim at pharma’s biosimilar-delaying tactics
12 December 2018 - Ever-rising cost of insulins also to be targeted. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Dec 2018
Statement from FDA Commissioner on FDA’s new strategic framework to advance use of real-world evidence to support development of drugs and biologics
6 December 2018 - The health care system is integrating more effective ways to leverage electronic tools to gather and use ...