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In life, the purchase of a new car, or house, invokes feelings of excitement, potential value and sustainability. Being new is positive thing, with infinite possibility.
Whereas, in the clinical research industry, a new/inexperienced employee may invoke feelings of unease, and the investment of critical time and resources without prospective return. Wonderful possibility is not anticipated, rather, ability is questioned. This doubt forces the choice of experience over potential, on what is comfortable/predictable (such as the requisite two years of CRA experience for an entry level CRA position) over the unknown.
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Male breast cancer is rare, but nonetheless as deadly as for women when at the same stage of progression. Men have been traditionally excluded from breast cancer clinical trials, so any treatment for them has been developed with data from women subjects. This results in fewer FDA approved treatment options for men with breast cancer.
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What: WCG Metrics Champion Consortium (MCC) Summit
Topic: Clinical Trials Risk and Performance Management Summit Agenda
When: September 4 and 5, 2019
Where: The Loews Philadelphia Hotel; Philadelphia, PA
Book the hotel here and ask for the FDAnews rate
Registration is available here.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the availability of the draft guidance “E8(R1) General Considerations for Clinical Studies” for public comment. The purpose of the draft guidance is to increase flexibility of clinical trials while improving the quality of clinical trial data presented to regulatory authorities. The draft guidance originates from the International Council for Harmonisation’s (ICH) E8 draft revision. The revision is part of ICH’s Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Renovation initiative, which outlines plans to revise ICH E8 and further revise ICH E6.
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Topic: Identifying Workforce Gaps Post Risk-Based Monitoring (RBM): It’s Time to “DIG” in!
Date: August 13, 2019
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT
Duration: 60 minutes
Sponsored by: Life Science Training Institute
Webinar: Live interactive session. Recording will be available for 30 days.
Sign up here.
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Male breast cancer is rare, but nonetheless as deadly as for women when at the same stage of progression. Men have been traditionally excluded from breast cancer clinical trials, so any treatment for them has been developed with data from women subjects. This results in fewer FDA approved treatment options for men with breast cancer.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a draft guidance “Enhancing the Diversity of Clinical Trial Populations - Eligibility Criteria, Enrollment Practices, and Trial Designs”. It is the position of the FDA to enroll subjects who are the target audience for the investigational product once approved. Certain populations are underrepresented in clinical trials, even though they are part of the target audience. The draft guidance outlines methods the sponsor can use to support more diverse enrollment that more accurately reflects the target population, in accordance with requirements in the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 (FDARA).
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a draft guidance, “Rare Diseases: Natural History Studies for Drug Development”. We discussed another draft guidance released in January, “Rare Diseases: Common Issues in Drug Development” in our blog. The new draft guidance describes how natural history studies may be best used for drug development for rare diseases.
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The Food and Drug Administration released a new draft guidance, “A Risk-Based Approach to Monitoring of Clinical Investigations: Questions and Answers Guidance for Industry”. The purpose of the guidance is to provide additional clarification to the finalized Risk Based Monitoring (RBM) guidance from 2013. Questions and answers provide details about:
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revised the draft guidance, “Rare Diseases: Common Issues in Drug Development Guidance for Industry”. The original draft guidance was issued August 2015. The revised draft guidance was published in the Federal Register February 1, 2019. Our previous blog mentioned that although it was available for public review January 16, there was a delay in publication and comment availability.