FDA to require diversity plan for clinical trials

16 February 2023 - US regulatory agency makes ‘big change’ to increase the number of participants from under-represented groups in drug ...

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Human medicines: highlights of 2022

16 February 2023 - In 2022, EMA recommended 89 medicines for marketing authorisation. Of these, 411 had a new active substance ...

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US Government payer funded trials to address oncology's drug dosing conundrum: a Congressional call to action?

13 February 2023 - Since the mid 20th century, cancer drug development has been guided by the assumption that more is ...

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FDA gene therapy head raises concern on accelerated approval use

14 February 2023 - More than 1,000 cell and gene therapy clinical trials registered. ...

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The future of voice technologies in health care

13 February 2023 - Adam Smith believed that the division of labor is the key to growth.  ...

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Top FDA official interested in ‘Project Orbis’ for cell and gene therapies

13 February 2023 - A top official from the US FDA said he wants to see something similar to the agency’s ...

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Assessment of FDA approved drugs not recommended for use or reimbursement in other countries (2017-2020)

13 February 2023 - In this cross-sectional study of all 206 new US drug approvals in 2017 through 2020, 47 drugs ...

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US FDA approval of drugs not meeting pivotal trial primary outcomes (2018-2021)

13 February 2023 - In June 2021, the US FDA granted accelerated approval to aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer disease ...

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Republicans back lawsuit to overturn FDA approval of abortion pill and pull the medication from US market

10 February 2023 - 22 Republican attorneys general and 67 GOP members of Congress backed a suit seeking to overturn FDA ...

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Stakeholders want more clarity on FDA's statistical approach to assessing bioequivalence

7 February 2023 - Commenters on the US FDA draft guidance outlining principles for in vivo or in vitro bioequivalence ...

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Actions to support the development of medicines for children

6 February 2023 - Regulators in the European Union have taken several initiatives in the past four years to increase the ...

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Medicare may test policy of paying less for accelerated approval drugs

31 January 2023 - Medicare official hinted Tuesday that Medicare might test a policy of paying less for drugs that ...

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Professor John Skerritt retirement

2 February 2023 - Today, Professor John Skerritt has announced his decision to retire from his position of Deputy Secretary ...

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Changes applying to evaluation of new substances for listed medicines

1 February 2023 - The TGA has introduced Mandatory requirements for applications to vary the Permissible Ingredients Determination under section 26BD ...

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Use of Clinical Trials Information System becomes mandatory for new clinical trial applications in the EU

31 January 2023 - From 31 January 2023, all initial clinical trial applications in the European Union must be submitted via ...

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