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On June 3rd, 2026, the International Council of Harmonisation’s final ICH Guideline for Good Clinical Practice (GCP) E6(R3) Annex 2 was adopted in step 4 of the ICH formal procedure. A reminder of ICH’s standardized five-step formal procedure of developing, adopting, and implementing of guidelines can be reviewed.
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On March 9th, 2026, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a draft guidance “Responding to FDA Form 483 Observations at the Conclusion of a Drug CGMP Inspection”. The guidance is intended to assist drug manufacturers of FDA regulated drugs or combination products who choose to respond to an FDA Form 483 Inspectional Observations (483).
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In March 2026, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published the fourth edition of ISO 14155:2026, replacing the previous edition from 2020. This is the medical device global reference for GCP conduct that many regulatory authorities recognize. Clinical Pathways offers an ISO 14155 Comparison Tool to support you to do an impact analysis and plan updates to SOPs, templates and tools for your trials.
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The US Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) collaborated with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to develop 10 Guiding Principles of Good AI Practice in Drug Development. They are intended to be a foundational basis for developing good practices with AI, addressing the unique nature of AI, as well as cultivating its future growth.
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In addition to the launch of Elsa, in a press announcement on December 1, 2025, the FDA broadcasted the deployment of Agentic AI capabilities for their employees. Agentic AI is unique from LLM AI due to its capability to plan, reason, and execute multi-step actions in order to achieve a specific goal. This means it can be used to assist with more complex tasks.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a draft guidance Expansion of the Abbreviated 510(k) Program: Demonstrating Substantial Equivalence through Performance Criteria on April 12, 2018. The comment period is open through July 11, 2018, and directions for comment submissions can be found here.
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Co-authored by our own Sandra SAM Sather, MS, BSN, RN, CCRC, CCRA and Julie Blasingim, MBA, CIP, “An IRB Perspective on Improving Informed Consent” was published in the April 2018 issue of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals’ (ACRP’s) peer-reviewed journal, Clinical Researcher.
What is the GDPR?
The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25, 2018. The purpose of the GDPR is to protect the privacy and security of personal data and to strengthen the accountability to those using personal data.
Background
Women were underrepresented at under 20% of subjects in clinical trials in the 1990s.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Office of Women’s Health (OWH) was formed in 1994 with a mission to ensure adequate involvement of women in clinical trials and to identify specific requirements and challenges for women’s health.
