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In March, 2025, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) released a “Reflection paper on use of real-world data (RWD) in non-interventional studies (NIS) to generate real-world evidence (RWE) for regulatory purposes” as a guidance for stakeholders on quality planning, conduct and analysis of NISs that intend to use RWD to generate RWE.
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In November 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning letter to the sponsor as a result of a BioResearch Monitoring Program (BIMO) inspection which observed objectionable conditions. The warning letter cited two violations of the Title 21 CFR.
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In December 2024, following the release of the 2024 revision of the Declaration of Helsinki (DoH), US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff shared the FDA’s perspective on what their role was in the development of the 2024 DoH and how it may impact FDA procedures. The DoH is intended to guide clinical research involving human participants that is often used as the foundation for other guidelines such as the International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
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In October 2024, the World Medical Association (WMA) announced the adoption of the 2024 revision of the Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) during the 75th WMA General Assembly in Helsinki, Finland, the same location where the Declaration was initially adopted 60 years prior.
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On September 27, 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning letter to an Institutional Review Board (IRB) as a result of a (BIMO) inspection from July of 2023. BIMO inspections evaluate compliance with of FDA regulatory requirements, in this case, title 21 CFR Parts 50, protection of human subject, and 56, Intuitional Review Boards.
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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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the availability of the draft guidance “E8(R1) General Considerations for Clinical Studies” for public comment.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
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