FDA emphasizes the crucial role of IRBs in new draft guidelines

The new FDA draft guidance issued last during the second week of November demonstrates that FDA does not want institutional review boards (IRBs) to lose their critical role in the clinical research process.  The new guidance, issued in November 2012 entitled “IRB...

Supplementary data research causing unnecessary expenditures

Ken Getz, assistant professor at Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD), reports that oftentimes procedures performed in the last drug development stages are in order to find “supplementary, secondary, tertiary, and exploratory endpoints.”...

Stay tuned to PCT Europe 2012!

Outsourcing-Pharma is heading to Hamberg for Partnerships in Clinical Trials Europe 2012. Stay up to date with on their latest advances in the clinical research industry here.