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RSS FeedPosted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2023
My son’s time is running out due to a rare disease. The FDA needs to add more clinical trial flexibility.
28 February 2023 - My toddler, Wheeler, will probably not live to adulthood. Juvenile Batten disease — he has the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Feb 2023
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Feb 2023
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jan 2023
Sequential, multiple assignment, randomised trial designs
24 January 2023 - An adaptive intervention is a set of diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, or engagement strategies that are used in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2023
Conditional power: how likely is trial success?
23 January 2023 - Because of the costs and potential risks to participants, clinical trials should be initiated or continued only ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jan 2023
CDER director calls for simplifying clinical trials to boost diversity
10 January 2023 - Encouraging researchers and sponsors to simplify clinical trials and employ a fit for purpose protocol is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Dec 2022
Target trial emulation: a framework for causal inference from observational data
12 December 2022 - Quantifying the effect of a treatment on a clinical outcome—causal inference—requires the comparison of outcomes under different ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Dec 2022
Statistical approaches to establishing bioequivalence
2 December 2022 - Requirements for submitting bioavailability and bioequivalence data in investigational new drugs, new drug applications, abbreviated new drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Nov 2022
Adjustment for baseline characteristics in randomised clinical trials
17 November 2022 - The purpose of randomisation in clinical trials is to ensure that there are no systematic differences between ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Oct 2022
FDA finalises multiple endpoints guidance
20 October 2022 - The US FDA on Thursday finalised guidance to sponsors on managing multiple outcomes in clinical trials ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Oct 2022
New federal incentives for diversity in clinical trials
8 October 2022 - In June 2022, the US House of Representatives passed legislation intended to increase the diversity of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2022
The critical role of academic clinical trials in paediatric cancer drug approvals: design, conduct, and fit for purpose data for positive regulatory decisions
6 October 2022 - For decades, academic clinical trials consortia have collaborated to optimise outcomes for childhood cancers through evaluating incremental ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Sep 2022
Clinical trials: real world data plays early role in efforts to increase diversity
5 September 2022 - The use of real world data to help design clinical trials is nothing new but increasingly it ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Aug 2022
Early phase oncology trials: why so many designs?
12 August 2022 - The past 30 years have seen a considerable effort on the part of statisticians to improve the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Aug 2022
Cure Rare Disease receives FDA approval to administer first in human CRISPR therapeutic
10 August 2022 - Cure Rare Disease announces the approval from the US FDA to administer its very first therapeutic. ...